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 of this call is to deploy a common European Security data space for innovation allowing research, development, testing, training and validation of algorithms for AI-based systems for security (law enforcement) based on various types of datasets, including operational pseudonymized and anonymised datasets.
Detailed Call Description
This action will lay the economic, organisational and technical foundations of a federated data infrastructure. Specifically, it is expected that at the end of the project a system and a model of the data governance will be available, thus the project will include the following tasks:
- to develop a reference architecture, to define data standards and to determine criteria for certifications and product quality while addressing ethical concerns and complying with data protection requirements;
- to generate, collect, annotate and make interoperable data suitable to test, train and validate algorithms, which should be available for the training, validation and testing of tools using AI technologies, and, when possible, proportional and where provided for by law, shareable for security research purposes;
- the projects will have to deploy trust mechanisms (security and privacy by design), data services which ensure the identity of the source and receiver of data and which ensure the access and usage rights towards the data. Projects are encouraged to perform the study and analysis of alternatives for data collection with maximum efficiency in order to provide interoperability within the domain. Also projects will ensure appropriate coordination with relevant projects funded under the research Framework Programmes and, when applicable, EU Space programmes operating security services (Copernicus, Galileo).
The projects selected for the deployment of this data space will have to make provisions for gradually becoming fully compliant with the European Data Spaces Technical Framework. They will also have to coordinate and collaborate with other projects participating in the deployment of the data space and the Data Spaces Support Centre in order to build on common standards.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
50%
Project budget (maximum grant amount) is € 8,000,000 per project.
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Justice - Security
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Large Enterprises
- Local Authorities
- Parliamentary Bodies
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- 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), established in EU Member States eligible or 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.
Consortium composition: Proposals must be submitted by minimum 2 law enforcement authorities (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from at least 2 different EU Member States.
The participation of additional law enforcement authorities from additional EU Member States is encouraged. In addition, private entities, or public and publicly-funded organisations, including research institutes from eligible countries are encouraged to participate.
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: 22/12/2022-for internal use only)
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