DIGITAL EUROPE – Cloud, Data and Artificial Intelligence – 2024

Objectives

• To consolidate existing results and move towards an ecosystem of mature LDT-based infrastructures and services across the EU to help cities and communities achieve economies of scale to access and deploy data platform and LDT-based services
• To create a pan-European ecosystem of digital twins that can connect and scale up towards a future “EU CitiVerse”, by supporting the development of open source LDT solutions based on common needs of EU cities and communities (both urban and rural), to connect them and to enrich them with additional innovative services

Priorities

• Priority 1: To federate existing urban data platform and LDTs-based infrastructure from cities and communities that already have a LDT in place to create national cloud-based infrastructure for smart Communities
• Priority 2: To customise advanced Digital Twin services by developing and piloting solutions and sectoral LDTs based on common policy needs of cities and communities where interoperability and collaboration are to be enhanced
• Priority 3: To add new advanced AI-based components to the forthcoming EU LDT toolbox to address the needs of cities/communities

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (Click here)
• A consortium composed of at least 3 entities, established in at least 3 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 42 months
• To find your National Contact Point: Click here

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 20 million euro
• Amount of the grant: 20 million euro
• Funding rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs