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.
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Call
Summary
The objective is to deploy 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 sharing of private and public data will provide a basis for applications and new services that will contribute to achieving the objectives of the EU Data Strategy, the Green Deal, and the Common Agricultural Policy. Also, the objective is to support the initiative taking into account the potential creation of a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC).
Detailed Call Description
The scope includes establishing and implementing an operational data space dedicated to sharing agricultural data. This endeavour encompasses deploying the data space, alongside instituting governance and business models for its operation. Engagement with the community is pivotal, ensuring alignment with European, national, regional, and local initiatives, as well as with other sectoral data spaces. This initiative will also need to continuously monitor the data space in view of gauging its effectiveness and relevance. The awarded proposal(s) will use, in so far as possible and when available, the smart cloud-to-edge middleware platform Simpl.
It will also work in close partnership with the Data Spaces Support Centre deployed under the first WP in order to ensure alignment with the rest of the ecosystem of data spaces implemented with the support of Digital Europe Programme, in particular in view of a data spaces reference architecture; common building blocks, toolboxes and standards; and data governance models. Right from the outset, the awarded proposal(s) is/are expected to work towards achieving financial sustainability by the conclusion of the action and consider relevant actions in this respect.
The active participation of data providers and users from the project’s inception is highly recommended since it will ensure that the data space is designed and structured to meet their needs, making the data space more relevant and leading to increased adoption rates and a stronger sense of ownership of data providers and users by the end of the project’s runtime. The set-up and implementation of the data space is expected to be accompanied by capacity building activities, including awareness raising among relevant stakeholders and technical assistance to (potential) users of the data space.
The awarded project will have the opportunity to use Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP) (“open calls”) for testing the functioning of the data space or components of it in a manner that is compliant with the Data Governance Act (DGA), with a maximum amount of €30.000 per third party.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
50%
Maximum grant amount per project: €8.000.000
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Small-Medium Enterprises and Competitiveness
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Educational Institutions
- Large Enterprises
- Legal Entities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- 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 (list of participating countries)
Targeted stakeholders: Public and private entities such as (but not limited to) public administrations and/or
governmental bodies, economic actors (SMEs, large organisations), relevant associations, academia/universities/research organisations, etc. from across the EU.
Consortium composition – Proposals must be submitted by: Agricultural Data Space (Deployment)
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
Directorate of Research and Innovation
Eleana Gabriel
Telephone: +357 22 691918
Email: egabriel@dmrid.gov.cy
EU Contact Point
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