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 action will support the deployment of the infrastructure needed to link and explore fragmented European databases of medical images of different types of cancer, with a solid governance and clear business model for ingestion of data and its exploitation by public and private organisations in Member States and associated countries (controllers of data), industry and innovators.
Detailed Call Description
The aim is to establish and deploy a pan-European digital infrastructure facilitating access to cancer images and related patient data in full compliance with the applicable data protection requirements. It will be used by clinicians, researchers and innovators with the ultimate aim of more precise and faster clinical decision-making, diagnostics, treatments and predictive medicine that will benefit citizens, patients, healthcare systems and the overall economy. The resulting data infrastructure will be inter-operable with the other components of the European health data space, in particular the genomic data infrastructure. In order to maximise the societal benefits of health data use, the data space should be supported by advanced IT tools and capacities, e.g. AI and HPC. Moreover, the measure will support creation of new cancer image datasets and further extension of the existing ones.
The infrastructure should consist of a central coordination entity, a federated network of FAIR-conform connected data sources, a platform enabling data discovery, querying and capability to access appropriate computing capacities for distributed data analysis. The action may combine existing data sources and support creation of new data sets. To ensure maximum data protection, identifiable data will in principle be analysed using distributed data analysis and AI learning techniques, while fully taking into account the applicable data protection requirements and the EU’s international obligations. Central storage may take place if the data are anonymised and in accordance with applicable legal requirements. The project will be in full compliance with the relevant legal, ethical, quality and interoperability requirements and standards.
The project should also enable linking and analysing cancer image data together with other types of health data (in particular electronic health records, repositories of molecular and clinical information and genomic-phenotypic data).
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
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
- Health
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Large Enterprises
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- 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
- countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (further details in the call document)
The project is expected to engage with patients, citizens, health professionals and other stakeholders to explain that data is used transparently and responsibly, and raise awareness of the expected benefits for European patients and citizens.
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: 23/02/2022-for internal use only)
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