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 specific aim is to support the creation of a technical infrastructure combined with governance mechanisms that will facilitate easy, cross-border access to key data resources in this area.
Detailed Call Description
It will be based on and in full alignment with existing and upcoming mobility and transport initiatives (some of which are regulated) that organise the sharing of data for both passengers and freight in the domains and become an integral part of the emerging European data and cloud services infrastructure.
Data for sustainable urban mobility indicators (SUMI) and for traffic and travel information in urban and regional areas will be made available for reuse for the development of innovative services and applications, and for policymaking.
The awarded project(s) will make information available and accessible in a machine-readable format in order to allow building a large amount of accurate and reliable data that could be used inter alia for artificial intelligence. It will have the following tasks and characteristics:
- support sustainable urban mobility planning and management by making available and accessible in machine-readable format data for EU sustainable urban mobility indicators, such as greenhouse gas emissions, congestion, commuting travel times and modal split in line with the EU definition and methodology.
- make traffic and travel information at urban level available and accessible in a machine-readable format in line with Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) Directive 2010/40/EU and in particular the Delegated Regulation 2015/962 on real-time traffic information services and delegated regulation 2017/1926 on multimodal travel information services.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Project budget (maximum grant amount): between €4 million and €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.
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Transport
- Urban Development
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Local Authorities
- 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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