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 is set to support the activities of the Alliance on industrial data, cloud and edge that was announced in the Communication on “Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy” ( COM(2021) 350 final).The purpose of the Alliance is to gather relevant stakeholders, including industry, Member States representatives and other experts, from across Europe in view of strengthening Europe’s industrial capacities in disruptive cloud and edge technologies.
The Alliance will focus on fostering the joint development and deployment of next-generation EU native cloud and edge technologies that meet the requirements to process Europe’s sensitive personal and/or highly sensitive business and public sector data sets, by addressing use cases for all sectors of the economy, with a specific focus on defence, security, mobility, health, and space.
Detailed Call Description
The main tasks of the Alliance will include: leverage investment synergies across EU and Member States in the area of cloud and edge, such as Horizon Europe, Digital Europe Programme, Connecting Europe Facility 2, European Defence Fund and the Recovery and Resilience Facility; coordination with common European data spaces and the Data Spaces Support Centre; structured cooperation between the Commission and all Member States’s public authorities, including on common specifications for public procurement of cloud services; expertise on relevant technical and self-regulatory norms for cloud services. This action consists in providing the following support services to the Alliance:
- Supporting the day-to-day industry-led operational work of the Alliance, including through (i) the setup and management of a collaborative workspace among participants and (ii) the organisation of relevant thematic working groups in view of ensuring progress towards and delivering on the Alliance’s milestones.
- Organisation of the annual General Assembly with all members of the Alliance, in close coordination with the European Commission
- Organisation of the annual Alliance Forum with all members of the Alliance and interested stakeholders, in close coordination with the European Commission
- Creation and maintenance of the Alliance’s website and day-to-day content creation to inform the broader audience about the Alliance’s activities.
The Secretariat of the Alliance should ensure the principles of inclusivity and diversity for the activities it is entrusted with, and be itself inclusive and diverse, notably by being gender-balanced.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Coordination and Support Actions: 100%
Thematic Categories
- Industry
- Information Technology
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- Large Enterprises
- Local Authorities
- 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 Europe Programme (list of 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)