Digital Europe – Cloud, Data and Artificial Intelligence – 2023

Objectives

• To reinforce the EU’s core Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud to Edge Computing and Data capacities as a crucial driver for the digital transformation of the public and private sectors
• To support the overall monitoring, medium-term exploitation, sustainability and economic viability of the developped and first industrially deployed advanced cloud-to-edge solutions associated with the pre-notified Important Project of Common European Interest on Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services (IPCEI-CIS) via the set-up of a Cloud IPCEI Exploitation Office (Topic 1)
• To develop a commercially viable highly secure cloud-based collaborative platform for the management of sensitive multi-country industrial initiatives in the aeronautics and security sector, including civil security (Topic 2)
• To establish and deploy a pan-European federated infrastructure for Intensive Care Units’ (ICU) data combined with governance mechanisms allowing secure cross-border access and use of ICU datasets, related tools and resources (Topic 3)
• To establish and launch a European reference genome database of genetic variation obtained by whole genome sequencing (Topic 4)
• To support the sectorial Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) created under the WP 2021-2022 (Health, Manufacturing, Agri-Food, Smart Cities and Communities) and the future new ones to be created under the Digital Europe Programme (Topic 5)
• To support full digitalisation processes, efficiency, and sustainability gains in many domains (Topic 6)

Among financed actions

• Monitoring and reporting to the European Commission
• Develop joint approaches to ensure that project results stemming from the IPCEI-CIS (such as open-source software technologies) will be maintained and regularly updated and that economic viability of the solutions will happen
• Propose a governance strategy to guarantee the self-functioning of the IPCEI integrated project
• Provide the necessary measures to connect different cloud service offerings with different security and encryption mechanisms

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals.
• Initial duration of the action:
  • Topic 1 – Cloud IPCEI Exploitation Office: 36 months
  • Topic 2 – Highly Secure Collaborative Platform for Aeronautics and Security Industry: 36 months
  • Topic 3 – Federated European Infrastructure for Intensive Care Units’ (ICU) data: 48 months
  • Topic 4 – Genome of Europe: 42 months
  • Topic 5 – Coordination of AI Sectorial Testing and Experimental Facilities: 42 months
  • Topic 6 – Developing CitiVerse: 30 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal entity
• A consortium with different conditions

• Total budget of the call: 68 million euro
• Total budget of the topic:
  • Topic 1 – Cloud IPCEI Exploitation Office: 3 million euro
  • Topic 2 – Highly Secure Collaborative Platform for Aeronautics and Security Industry: 22 million euro
  • Topic 3 – Federated European Infrastructure for Intensive Care Units’ (ICU) data: 5 million euro
  • Topic 4 – Genome of Europe: 20 million euro
  • Topic 5 – Coordination of AI Sectorial Testing and Experimental Facilities: 3 million euro
  • Topic 6 – Developing CitiVerse: 15 million euro
• Co-financing rate:
  • Topic 1 – Cloud IPCEI Exploitation Office: 100% of the total eligible costs
  • Topic 2 – Highly Secure Collaborative Platform for Aeronautics and Security Industry: 50% of the total eligible costs
  • Topic 3 – Federated European Infrastructure for Intensive Care Units’ (ICU) data: 50% of the total eligible costs
  • Topic 4 – Genome of Europe: 50% of the total eligible costs
  • Topic 5 – Coordination of AI Sectorial Testing and Experimental Facilities: 100% of the total eligible costs
  • Topic 6 – Developing CitiVerse: 50% of the total eligible costs