Priorities and funded actions
Objectives
* Undertake a large-scale mapping of existing methods of age-verification and obtaining parental consent in the context of online child protection. This mapping should cover methods used in EU Member States, but should also cover widely- used non-EU solutions, both open-source and propriety;
* Based on an assessment of the mapping presented to the Commission, design, implement and test an interoperable infrastructure for child online protection including in particular age-verification and obtaining parental consent of users of video-sharing platforms or other similar online services, using different approaches, including for example eID. The infrastructure shall take into consideration the relevant articles of the AVMSD and be designed in a manner compliant with the GDPR and cover a minimum of 3 EU Member States/EEA countries
Among financed actions
* Designing, implementing and testing an interoperable infrastructure;
* Conferences, workshops;
* Awareness and dissemination actions;
* Exchanges of good practices;
* Studies, analyses, mapping projects;
* Research activities
Additional information
* This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
* Initial duration of the action: up to 18 months
* Eligibility:
– Providers of national eIDs in the countries where the infrastructure will be piloted;
– Video-sharing platform providers, video on demand providers or other similar providers of online content for children;
– Industry providing age verification solutions;
– Civil society;
– Academia;
– Research centres;
– Applicants under category 2 and 3 who are not SMEs can participate in the project but their activities will not be funded;
– In order to be eligible, a proposal must be submitted by a consortium composed of at least 5 legal entities from at least 3 different eligible countries