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 objective is to respond to the challenge of boosting innovation and mobilize the media industry and provide a strong support for the creation of a European data space able to foster the competitiveness of the European media sector. Such a data infrastructure will be used to boost the use of data for innovative content (entertainment, education and news), and for innovative production and distribution.
Detailed Call Description
The Media and Audiovisual Action Plan is developed around three areas: recovery, transformation, and enabling and empowerment.
The data space will provide the whole media value chain with an advanced and shared data infrastructure. This data infrastructure will be tested by means of the creation of innovative solutions for the production, curation, circulation and distribution of media content, and in particular through new platforms for quality content, across the Union.
The key elements for data spaces are the sharing of a wide variety of data such as content, user consumption and audience data, 3D animation models, or production meta-data. The data spaces will also facilitate access to computing resources for creative SMEs. Furthermore, data can provide valuable insight to services aiming at increasing the findability of media content (news and entertainment content) across borders. Such services can play a pivotal role in providing new resources for the media industry and supporting the creation of a European public sphere. Likewise, further creative industries and other industrial sectors (such as retail or automotive) could potentially make use of the media data space to generate additional value and open new markets for the media.
That data should be available to both public service media and commercial media operators, whether large or small, start-ups or established players.
The data space will be open to companies from other sectors for mutually advantageous data based cooperation which could open new opportunities for the media sector. This will enable media companies to join forces and regain competitiveness in the face of online platforms.
As for all the data spaces, the objective is the creation of a technical infrastructure combined with governance mechanisms that will ensure easy, cross-border access to key datasets in the targeted area.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Project budget (maximum grant amount): €8 million per project
The grant will be a budget-based mixed actual cost grant (actual costs, with unit cost and flat-rate elements). This means that it will reimburse ONLY certain types of costs (eligible costs) and costs that were actually incurred for your project (NOT the budgeted costs).
After grant signature, you will normally receive a prefinancing to start working on the project (float of normally 50% of the maximum grant amount; exceptionally less or no prefinancing). The prefinancing will be paid 30 days from entry into force/10 days before starting date/financial guarantee (if required) – whichever is the latest.
Specific cost eligibility conditions for this call: Restrictions due to security:
- country restrictions for subcontracting costs: Yes, subcontracted work must be performed in the eligible countries (for all topics
except DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-03-DS-MEDIA) - eligible cost country restrictions: Yes, only costs for activities carried out in eligible countries are eligible (for all topics except DIGITAL2022-CLOUD-AI-03-DS-MEDIA)
Thematic Categories
- Audiovisual sector and Media
- Culture
- New Entrepreneurship
- Other Thematic Category
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- Large Enterprises
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- 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 (except for topics with restrictions; see below):
- listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (together ‘DEP associated countries’, see list of participating countries)
Proposals must be submitted by: minimum 3 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 3 different eligible countries
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: 26/09/2022-for internal use only)
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