e-Justice Communication via Online Data Exchange (e-CODEX)

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Code: 15688 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-TRUST-01-ECODEX | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective of this topic is to continue ensuring the operation and evolutive maintenance of e-CODEX started under previous programmes (ICT Policy Support Programme, ICT PSP, part of the Competitive and Innovation framework Programme, CIP, of the EU, ICT PSP CIP, and further developed and maintained under the Connecting Europe Facility, CEF, programme of the EU) and now in use, and to provide support to the stakeholders and users of the system until the planned hand-over to eu-LISA in 2023 in accordance with relevant legislation.

Initial Network of European Digital Innovation Hubs

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Code: 15685 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-EDIH-INITIAL-01 | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

Set-up the Initial Network of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) from all designated candidate entities resulting from the Expression of Interest (1.1). Upgrade these entities to provide the complete set of services of an EDIH, including the necessary infrastructure, in a specific geographical area, covering the needs of the local SMEs, small mid-caps and/or public sector organisations with respect to their digital transformation. Network these EDIHs with each other and with other projects selected in Digital Europe Programme developing capacities in High Performance Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Advanced Digital Skills and accelerating the best use of these technologies.

Preparatory actions for the data space for Agriculture

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Code: 15682 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-PREPACTS-DS-01-AGRI | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The main objective is to develop a secure and trusted data space to enable the agriculture sector to transparently share and access data allowing for an increase in its economic and environmental performance. The data space is expected to facilitate the sharing, processing and analysis of production data, open data and possibly other public data (e.g. soil data). Production data supplemented by publicly held data will present new opportunities for monitoring and optimising the use of natural resources and will contribute to achieve the objectives of the Green Deal and the Common Agricultural Policy.

Preparatory actions for the data space for tourism

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Code: 15680 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-PREPACTS-DS-01-TOURISM | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

A tourism data space, through its connection to other sectoral data spaces (e.g. cultural heritage) will provide access to information to the ecosystem, with an impact on productivity, greening and sustainability, innovative business models and upskilling. The preparatory action will establish a multi-stakeholder data governance, an inventory of existing data platforms for tourism and a blueprint for tourism-specific building blocks which could contribute to the long-term convergence of existing and new data-related initiatives in tourism by making use of the data space technical infrastructure. The preparatory actions will support the deployment of these data spaces for tourism, and propose sustainable business models and incentives schemes to motivate participants to share data.

Advanced digital skills analysis

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Code: 15677 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-SKILLS-01-ANALYSIS | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective of this action is to support the rollout of initiatives for advanced digital skills development, by gathering inputs on the existing education offers in digital areas and the related needs of the labour market.

Specialised education programmes in key capacity areas

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Code: 15675 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-SKILLS-01-SPECIALISED | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The action aims at increasing and improving the offer of education programmes and the number of students specialised in key capacity areas. The offer will be expanded in terms of geographical distribution (including outermost regions and other disadvantaged regions), number of opportunities and relevance to latest technological developments. The actions also aim at supporting more inter-disciplinary courses that can equip professionals with relevant advanced digital skills and increase diversity among students and future digital experts (for example data analytics skills for professionals in different sectors). The goal is to encourage organisations to work together and develop ecosystems of excellence able to train, attract and retain the best digital talents, including by contributing to closing the gender gap in these fields.

Testing and Experimentation Facility for Edge AI

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Code: 15671 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-TEF-EDGE | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The overall aim of the Testing and Experimentation Facility (TEF) for Edge AI hardware is to ensure the availability in Europe of trusted, high-performance, low-power edge components and technologies to support the massive data-processing requirements of AI and the digital transformation. The emergence of novel computing paradigms, such as neuromorphic, provides an opportunity for the European industry to take the lead in a new generation of edge and distributed computing systems.
This project aims at delivering a European platform that will enable companies to develop, test and experiment AI product prototypes based on advanced low-power computing technologies, custom-designed for their application environment.

Preparatory actions for the Green Deal Data Space

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Code: 15669 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-PREP-DS-GREEN-DEAL | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The action should also establish links to relevant initiatives under the Green Deal to ensure a user-driven development of the data space, in particular those (e.g. Horizon Europe activities such as the Green Deal Missions) that will provide significant opportunities to test, experiment and up-scale the input to and use of the data space
with local partners. Τhe project will propose a roadmap for the deployment of a full-fledged common European Green Deal data space and liaise with potential users and other relevant actors to ensure synergies between users and infrastructures.

Coordinate the first deployment of national EuroQCI projects and prepare the large-scale QKD testing and certification infrastructure

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Code: 15664 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-QCI-01-EUROQCI-QKD | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

To coordinate the developments and findings of the national QCI projects; to prepare for the deployment of a flexible large-scale testing and certification QKD infrastructure that is in the service of all relevant actors of the participating Member States; and to assess the full-scale compliance of different EU technologies with a view to their later integration in EuroQCI. This support is needed to contribute to European technological autonomy in the highly strategic field of quantum communication technologies.

An ecosystem for digital twins in healthcare

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Code: 15661 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-DEPLOY-01-TWINS-HEALTH | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The development of digital twins in healthcare (DTH) has progressed substantially, profiting from advances in science and technology. In order to exploit their benefits in view of better prevention approaches, faster and more accurate diagnoses, personalised treatments and care, a framework to structure cooperation and leverage on synergies between academia, private sector, regulators and end-users needs to be strengthened.

The objective is to support the roll-out of DTH by mapping and structuring the ecosystem within the EU Member States and associated countries to identify and pool existing resources, and foster collaboration and overall integration of the stakeholders, while ensuring adequate clinical representation.

Uptake of digital solutions in Health and Care

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Code: 15658 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-DEPLOY-01-HEALTH | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

This action will support a coordinated multi-stakeholder approach for the uptake and integration of digital solutions along the continuum of health and care. It will take forward and consolidate achievements in terms of interoperability, common dataspaces, telemedicine and digital solutions for person-centred care by engaging with the ecosystem, and creating buy-in from key stakeholders. It will also build on existing initiatives to support swift actions for digital preparedness for pandemics. This action should also ensure synergies with relevant efforts supported under Horizon Europe cluster 1 “Health”, in particular with the Co-funded Partnership with Member States and Associated Countries aimed at Transforming Health and Care Systems.

Preparatory actions for the data space for smart communities

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Code: 15652 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-PREP-SMART-COMM | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The project will bring together existing local data ecosystems, and relevant stakeholders, public and private, to join efforts and identify common principles for sharing large pools of data at the EU level. The action will contribute to the definition of the technical infrastructure for data sharing across relevant domains (in particular, traffic, electricity, pollution, urban infrastructure, extreme weather events, water and waste management, etc.) in order to create cross-domain innovation and move towards the Green transition in each local context.

Preparatory actions for the AI-on-demand platform

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Code: 15641 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-PREP-AI | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective of this support action is to prepare the development of the AI-on-demand platform described above, in order to optimise its design and maximise its impact.

Safer Internet Centres (SICs)

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Code: 15638 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-TRUST-01-SAFERINTERNET | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective of the topic is to support national SICs (i.e., hubs gathering NGOs, government bodies/agencies, private sector organisations) in providing online safety information, educational resources, public awareness tools and counselling and reporting services (through dedicated helplines and hotlines) for young people, teachers, and parents. The activities performed by the SICs will help minors to tackle online risks and to become media literate, resilient digital citizens, and will allow citizens to anonymously report online child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

Digital Product Passport: sustainable and circular systems

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Code: 15636 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-TRUST-01-DIGIPASS | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective of the DPP is to support sustainable production, to enable the transition to circular economy, to provide new business opportunities to economic actors, to support consumers in making sustainable choices and to allow authorities to verify compliance with legal obligations.
The objective of this Coordination and Support Action, is to prepare the ground for a gradual deployment as of 2023 of digital product passport in minimum 3 key value chains: electronics (at least consumer electronics), batteries. 

Preparatory actions for the data space for skills

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Code: 15633 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-PREPACTS-DS-01-SKILLS | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective is to deploy a secure and trusted data space to support sharing and accessing skills data for various purposes, from analytical and statistical purposes to policy development or re-use in innovative applications. The data space will provide easy, cross-border access to key datasets, deploying trust mechanisms (security and privacy by design) and develop data services matching European values, in particular of ethics, diversity and privacy.
Data is at the core of skills and education, offering enormous potential for innovative applications. Databases of job offers, lists of curricula and certifications, inventory of topics studied at all levels of education can help better defining human resource, training, business or educational policy strategies.

Digital Solutions in support of the New European Bauhaus Initiative

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Code: 15630 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-DEPLOY-01-BAUHAUS | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The project will identify digital solutions that could contribute to the implementation of the New European Bauhaus initiative and more broadly of the adoption of its values (sustainability, inclusiveness, and aesthetics) in living spaces for a better quality of life. This action will support better coordination of relevant New European Bauhaus stakeholders and digital stakeholders through the creation of a network to this purpose. The project will further accelerate the deployment of projects implementing the New European Bauhaus initiative, and identify best practices in relevant EU funded digital projects.

Secretariat for the Alliance on industrial data, cloud and edge

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Code: 15627 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-INDUSTRIAL-DATA | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

This action is set to support the activities of the Alliance on industrial data, cloud and edge that was announced in the Communication on “Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy” ( COM(2021) 350 final).The purpose of the Alliance is to gather relevant stakeholders, including industry, Member States representatives and other experts, from across Europe in view of strengthening Europe’s industrial capacities in disruptive cloud and edge technologies.
The Alliance will focus on fostering the joint development and deployment of next-generation EU native cloud and edge technologies that meet the requirements to process Europe’s sensitive personal and/or highly sensitive business and public sector data sets, by addressing use cases for all sectors of the economy, with a specific focus on defence, security, mobility, health, and space.

Federated European infrastructure for genomics data

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Code: 15623 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-FEI-DS-GENOMICS | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective is the creation of a technical infrastructure combined with governance mechanisms that will secure easy, cross-border access to key datasets in the targeted area. In particular, the aim of this topic is to achieve sustainable cross-border linkage of and access to a multitude of genomic and related phenotypic, clinical and other datasets across Europe based on the progress achieved in the context of the 1+ Million Genomes initiative (1+MG).

European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO) – national and multinational hubs

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Code: 15619 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-TRUST-01-EDMO | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

Following-up from the first round of hubs created under CEF, this topic aims to create new national or multinational hubs for analysis of digital media ecosystems in order to expand the geographical coverage of EDMO. A national/multinational hub is a network of organisations active in one or several Member State(s), that will provide specific knowledge of local information environments so as to strengthen the detection and analysis of disinformation campaigns, improve public awareness, and design effective responses relevant for national audiences. These national/multinational centres will focus their activities around emerging digital media vulnerabilities and disinformation campaigns, which are of special relevance within the territory and/or linguistic area in which they will operate. Multinational hubs will cover more than one Member State with similar media ecosystems within an EU region.
The activities of the hubs should be independent from any public authority.