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
Multi-Country Projects (MCPs) are large scale projects facilitating the achievement of the targets for digital transformation of the Union and industrial recovery. They involve at least three Member States and typically include the Union’s and Member States’ financing.
The topic aims to facilitate the implementation of Multi-Country projects, including where the European Digital Infrastructure Consortia (EDICs) have been chosen as implementation mechanism. The selected projects should be implemented either by an EDIC or through another mechanism listed in the DDPP Decision, including a consortium which includes at least three Member States.
Detailed Call Description
The projects selected for funding under this topic are expected to:
- address one of the key areas in which the Digital Europe Programme supports critical EU capacity building through large scale deployments;
- represent a high level of engagement from various Member States and a long-term sustainability for the project implemented;
- pool EU, national and/or private resources to achieve progress that no Member State could do on its own;
- reduce digital divides within and between Member States;
- prove a clear EU added value through their impact that no single entity nor Member State could achieve on its own;
- contribute to bridge the gap between large scale piloting and full deployment;
- support the consolidation of an interconnected, interoperable, and secure Single Market, considering to the extent possible the interests of public and private sectors.
- to the extent possible, support interoperability of data and digital infrastructure amongst the MCPs. Digital infrastructure might include data, high-performance computing, quantum computing, AI and connectivity;
- where relevant, support common operating models that promote fair data economy, cross-border services, digital public services, new business models, trust-based ecosystems, digital identity and a high level of personal data protection.
The funding can cover the following categories of activities:
- Deployment and use of common EU digital infrastructures, including the underlying technologies, blueprint architecture, standards, tools and applications;
- Deployment and use of advanced EU wide services targeting their large-scale adoption including through industry and/or SMEs, and/or public administrations;
- Use of computing and processing capacities;
- Data generation, collection, aggregation and sharing;
- Creation, optimization of large data models;
- Normalisation and certification of services, digital infrastructures and/or data models;
- Deployment of trustworthy AI capacities and resources;
- Dissemination and exploitation of project results;
- Stakeholder engagement;
- Capacity building, including on legal and competitiveness matters;
- Any other activities that are necessary to the achievement of the objectives of the relevant Multi-Country Project.
Priority will be given to projects that present a broader Member States support, and a higher level of maturity.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The funding rate is 50%
Maximum grant amount: has no limit
Thematic Categories
- Industry
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Legal Entities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- 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 participating countries)
Targeted stakeholder is any entity capable of contributing to the implementation of Multi-country Projects, thus facilitating the achievement of the general objectives and the digital targets, including in particular the user community of the digital infrastructures or services provided.
Consortium composition
Proposals must be submitted by:
- A European Digital Infrastructure Consortium
- Another MCP implementation mechanism listed in the DDPP Decision, including a consortium which includes at least three independent entities from three different Member States. These entities should be appointed by the government as representing entity of the Member State, with the purpose of implementing the given Multi Country Project. Besides these, the consortium can include other relevant private and public organisations contributing to the implementation of Multi-Country Projects.
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