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. 

Deploying advanced national QCI systems and networks

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Code: 15617 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-QCI-01-DEPLOY-NATIONAL | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective of this topic is twofold. On one hand to deploy advanced national quantum systems and networks for testing quantum communication technologies and for integrating them with existing communication networks. On the other hand to use these quantum systems and networks for developing and testing use cases in support of national QCI initiatives in the context of the EuroQCI initiative. This support is needed to contribute to European technological autonomy in the highly strategic field of quantum communication technologies.

 

Governance of the Living-in.eu community

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Code: 15615 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-DEPLOY-01-LIVING-EU | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The aim is to support the governance of the Living-in.eu community by coordinating the broad range of activities and stakeholders with various expertise (legal, financial, technical, education and capacity building, impact measuring).

Marketplace for federated cloud-to-edge based services

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Code: 15610 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-DS-MARKETPLACE-CLOUD | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

The objective is to deploy and operate an EU online marketplace for cloud and edge services. The marketplace should be the single point of access for trusted services, notably cloud and edge services, building blocks deployed under the Common Services Platform and more generally any software and data processing services developed under EU programmes. It should as well complement the AI-on-demand platform, in providing access to the necessary cloud services. By facilitating access to these services for crucial EU sectors, the catalogue of curated services will improve the EU’s open strategic autonomy. This will ensure that the digital transformation of the economy is undertaken on the basis of secure, fair, inclusive and resource-efficient infrastructures and services.

Secretariat for the Alliance on Processors and Semiconductor technologies

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Code: 15602 | Identifier Code: DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01-DATA-TECH | Programme name: 15593 | Start submission calls: 17/11/2021 | End submission calls: 22/02/2022

This action is to support the activities of the Industrial Alliance on processors and semiconductor technologies that was announced in the Communication on “Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy” 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 the design and manufacturing of advanced processors and other electronic components. The activities of the Alliance will contribute to delivering on the EU’s digital targets for 2030, by addressing use cases for all sectors of the economy, notably mobility, communications, industrial manufacturing, security, and health.

Uptake and validation of citizen observations to complement authoritative measurement within the urban environment and boost related citizen engagement

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Code: 15595 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Successful proposals are expected to support citizen engagement, specifically the active role of citizens in the collection and use of data and information within the urban environment to complement the data and information collected through other means of observation (space-based, airborne, etc.).

New technologies for acquiring in-situ observation datasets to address climate change effects

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Code: 15586 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

This topic is intended to support innovative technological solutions building on cutting-edge technologies in the domain of measurement and testing, big data and ICT to acquire necessary parameters from in-situ measurements required to ensure an integrated monitoring and model data assimilation necessary to respond to the climate transition and the European Green Deal challenges.

Water governance, economic and financial sustainability of water systems

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Code: 15584 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

This topic aims to validate innovative multi-level water governance practices among various stakeholders to strengthen policy integration, coherence and coordination and assess their impacts on economy, social well-being and environment.