DIGITAL EUROPE – Cloud, data and artificial intelligence – 2024

Objectives

• To develop and deploy a secure and trusted data space for skills (databases of job offers, qualifications, learning opportunities, lists of curricula and certifications, inventory of topics studied at all levels of education and training, as well as skills classifications)
• To significantly scale up the deployment and use of the data space(s) for manufacturing by reaching a critical mass of manufacturing industries sharing industrial data and improving company operations and value chains among providers
• To strengthen the role and capabilities of HDABs in streamlining the testing and deployment pathways for healthcare AI solutions

Priorities

• DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-SKILLS: to ensure that major stakeholders adopt the data space and its value is proven at an EU wide level
  • To implement at least three use cases witha clear impact as outlined under Objective
  • To connect data and service providers to the data space infrastructure to ensure that the foreseen use cases can be implemented
• DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-MANUFSPACE: to target one of the following two use cases
  • Data-driven models for supply chain management and the role of data sharing in risk mitigation response, such as early-warning predictive material shortage
  • Manufacturing data spaces using data to drive the transition to a greener and circular economy with enhanced business opportunities for industrial data value added services
• DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-HEALTHCARE-AI: to identify current pathways, i.e. regulatory, organisational and technical processes and means, for the development, testing and deployment of AI in health, as well as limitations, bottlenecks and gaps reducing the overall effectiveness of these pathways
  • To design more effective pathways by leveraging EHDS and Health Data Access Bodies, and possibly Testing and Experimentation Facilities (TEFs) and European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs)
  • To test and showcase these pathways with Health Data Access Bodies and the relevant actors in the community, based on specific examples in relevant disease areas, e.g. cancer, mental health or cardiovascular diseases

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• A consortium must be constituted:
  • DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-SKILLS: at least 4 entities, established in at least 4 different eligible countries
  • DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-MANUFSPACE : at least 3 entities, established in at least 3 different eligible countries
  • DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-HEALTHCARE-AI: at least 6 entities, established in at least 3 different eligible countries

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 24 and 36 months
• Contact : HADEA-HP-CALLS@ec.europa.eu

• Total budget of the call: 20 million euro
• Total budget of the topic:
  • DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-SKILLS: 3 million euro
  • DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-MANUFSPACE : 13 million euro
  • DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-HEALTHCARE-AI: 4 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 3 million and 4 million euro
• Funding rate:
  • DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-SKILLS: up to 50% of eligible costs
  • DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-MANUFSPACE: up to 50% of eligible costs
  • DIGITAL-2024-CLOUD-DATA-06-HEALTHCARE-AI: up to 100% of eligible costs