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
This call aims to facilitate the implementation of the European Digital Identity and Trust Ecosystem in line with the amended Regulation establishing the European Digital Identity Framework.
The objective of the European Digital Identity Framework is to improve citizen’s and businesses’ access to highly trusted and secure electronic identity means and trust services such as electronic signatures or attestations of attributes, expand citizens’ possibilities to use them to access public and private online services and improve their ability to control when and with whom their personal identity data is accessed or shared.
Detailed Call Description
In support of the new European Digital Identity and Trust Ecosystem the following digital service infrastructures for trust services in support of European cross border digital transactions will be defined, developed adjusted and maintained in cooperation with Member States where necessary and appropriate for the purpose of supporting digital solutions across policy domains’ specific projects, enabling “interoperability by design” and ensuring accessibility for persons with disability and older persons:
- the European Trust Services Ecosystem allowing companies, citizens and administrations to validate European qualified trust service providers supporting the governance of the eIDAS regulatory system;
- the eID component ensuring legal, organisational, semantic and technical interoperability for accessible and secure digital operations that require cross-border identity recognition as well as future frameworks supplementing or replacing it;
- further improvement of the EU Digital Identity Wallet covering the specification as well as the reference implementation (Software) and potentially necessary central components maintained by the Commission.
- eDelivery as a standards-based solution for safe and cryptographically secured data exchange over the internet, which underpins much of the data exchange between Member States and/or the Commission and Member States in multiple Domains;
- eSignature maintaining the standards-based approach for safe and cryptographically secured communication of intent in digital transactions. The library for electronic signature is re-used by multiple European trust services leveraging the opportunities created by the eIDAS regulation;
- eArchiving preserving data in an open, interoperable and sustainable way. In addition to supporting actions from the previous WP, during this new period eArchiving will also review its standards with stakeholders, create new specifications following the common data spaces development, develop the curriculum of digital preservation skills to support capacity building, establish an EU cross-border network of digital preservation experts and deploy and promote the new eArchiving certification initiative.
The action will be implemented using grants and focuses on pilot implementations of the EU Digital Identity Wallet and its ecosystem by public and private sector service providers validating technical references, standards, components and solutions, with regards to new use cases for exchanging digital attestations of attributes and identity credentials by means of a personalised digital wallet. These activities could also include innovative technical solutions based on electronic ledgers such as those developed by EBSI where the use of blockchain is assessed as adding value.
Call Total Budget
Thematic Categories
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Information Technology
- Other Thematic Category
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Businesses
- Large Enterprises
- Legal Entities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- 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.:
- U 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)
Consortium composition – 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)
Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
Directorate of Research and Innovation
Eleana Gabriel
Telephone: +357 22 691918
Email: egabriel@dmrid.gov.cy