Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Digital Europe Programme is the first EU programme that aims to accelerate the recovery and drive the digital transformation of Europe.
Worth €7.6 billion (in current prices), the Programme is a part of the next long-term EU budget, (the Multiannual Financial Framework), and it covers 2021 to 2027. It will provide funding for projects in five crucial areas: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and ensuring the wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society.
The Programme is fine-tuned to fill the gap between the research of digital technologies and their deployment, and to bring the results of research to the market – for the benefit of Europe’s citizens and businesses, and in particular SMEs. Investments under the Digital Europe programme supports the Union’s twin objectives of a green transition and digital transformation and strengthens the Union’s resilience and strategic autonomy.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The overall objective is to enable the final validation and foster the uptake of AI systems for LE by running large scale pilots in LEAs premises. This is necessary, as AI systems for LE need, in most cases, a final validation on real operational datasets that can only be accessed in stand-alone secured environments.
Detailed Call Description
To achieve the above mentioned objective, it is necessary to foster the testing, validation and optimisation of innovative digital forensic and investigation tools.
This would be done by:
- Setting up a validation methodology for innovative investigative tools that should be designed and validated by the Europol Innovation Lab with the involvement of its dedicated core groups of EU Member States.
- Running large scale pilots in LE premises for training, validating and adapting a limited number of best in class (selected among a set of tools proposed by the Europol Innovation Lab that comply to EU standards in terms of regulation and protections of fundamental rights) innovative AI tools in real environment,
- Creating when necessary a set of annotated data during the pilot projects that could be shared among LE and potentially Europol (and eventually feed the data space for security and law enforcement),
- Ensuring that the solutions validated through pilots can benefit to a number of EU LEAs with the support of the Europol Innovation Lab, Networks of LE practitioners and the enforcement of appropriate IPR.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Maximum grant amount per project (funding rate):
€ 5,000,000
50% and 75% (for SMEs)
Thematic Categories
- Justice - Security
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Legal Entities
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (Further details in the call document)
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Eleana Gabriel
Directorate of Research and Innovation
Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
Telephone: +357 22 691918
Email: egabriel@dmrid.gov.cy
(Publish Date: 24/02/2022-for internal use only)
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