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
The project will bring together existing local data ecosystems, and relevant stakeholders, public and private, to join efforts and identify common principles for sharing large pools of data at the EU level. The action will contribute to the definition of the technical infrastructure for data sharing across relevant domains (in particular, traffic, electricity, pollution, urban infrastructure, extreme weather events, water and waste management, etc.) in order to create cross-domain innovation and move towards the Green transition in each local context.
Detailed Call Description
The project will grow organically, building on different EU initiatives and data ecosystems, and strengthening the connection between repositories of data. The project will:
- Develop a multi-stakeholder data governance scheme, bringing together local data ecosystem stakeholders, to jointly identify the data infrastructures to federate in order to enable a data space for smart communities at the EU level.
- Elaborate a blueprint for the data space for smart communities based on existing EU legislation and data policies, as well as on common principles agreed at sector or local levels
- Bring an agreed set of priority datasets and data themes (public, private, including citizen-collected, etc.) including real-time data, into conformity with the new blueprint standards and principles.
The action will have to work in partnership with the Data Spaces Support Centre in order to ensure alignment with the European Data Spaces Technical Framework. The joint work will target the definition of:
- the data space reference architecture, building blocks and common toolboxes to be used;
- the common standards, including semantic standards and interoperability protocols, both domain-specific and crosscutting;
- The data governance models, business models and strategies for running data spaces.
Targeted stakeholders: private and public organisations with relevant experience in smart and sustainable cities’ solutions or any other organisation (such as data brokers, data stewards, data integrators) participating in data interoperability activities, as well as public and private users from cities and communities. Other stakeholders could include representatives from the public sector, industry, academia, standards organisations, civil society and citizens.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Coordination and Support Actions: 100%
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Industry
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Urban Development
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- Large Enterprises
- Local Authorities
- 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.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europen Programme (associated countries) or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
For the consortium composition see the details of the specific topic, in the Call document.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
It will be announced soon.
(Publish Date: 18/11/2021-for internal use only)