Applications Open for European Data Incubator (EDI) Programme

Deadline: 17 June 2020

EDI wants to encourage the participation of companies who having an expertise in a given industrial sector/domain, still have low/medium acquaintance with AI & Big Data tools. Companies will be able to take advantage of EDI’s training and support in this area to add Big Data and AI capabilities to their services’ portfolio. Indeed, EDI incubator has room for both highly skilled companies in the AI & Big Data domain and those that have an ample knowledge on a given industrial sector but need to still mature their skills in AI & Big Data domain.

Tracks

The open call will be divided in three tracks. Applicants will select one of them:

• READY-MADE (Track 1 – Domain specific): challenges have been defined by the EDI data providers according to the needs detected. These challenges and associated datasets are defined in the Challenge Catalogue. Applicants will select the challenge to be solved from the EDI Catalogue at application stage.
• HALF AND HALF (Track 2 – Data combination): there is not a predefined challenge to be sorted out. This track is devoted to the discovery of new opportunities proposed by the applicants, where the use of at least two different datasetsis compulsory. At least one dataset must be from EDI Data Catalogue.
  • • Data set 1: One dataset provided by EDI data catalogue.
    • Data set 2: Another dataset or datasets, which can be external to EDI data source/s, as long as the applicant has access and processing rights to the data in compliance with data protection regulations, and has legal permission to include them in a commercial solution.
  • The applicant must select Data set 1 from EDI data catalogue and will describe the Data set 2 and the proposed solution in the Application Form. Importantly, the applicant could also choose two or more datasets from EDI data catalogue and devise a data-driven solution around them.
  • The use of datasets from different sectors or fields is encouraged.
• FREE CHOICE (Track 3 – Bring your own data provider): teams will be allowed to bring their own data provider with a specific challenge to be solved and specific datasets to be used for that purpose. The challenge and the datasets will be described within the submission stage. The data provider will have to comply with the country eligibility and follow the same rules of current EDI data providers. To sum up:
  • • To register in the Data Providers application call form, as indicated in the Application Form to be filled in by the Applicant.
    • To sign a MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) with the University of Deusto at the time of the application and before 28 June 2020.
    • To sign the Sub-Grant Agreement in case of selection of the Applicant, before the beginning of the incubation in September 2020.
    • Provide access to the data and assistance to the Sub-grantee if selected.
    • Participate in the meetings with the Sub-grantee organised by the project and in the evaluations in the corresponding pitches and events, if selected.

Funding Information

• Open call: This is the submission of proposals. No funding attached.
• Explore: €5,000 attached to the successful participation in the respective call Datathon in Berlin, elaboration of a mock-up of the future solution making use of the data catalogue provided by the consortium and presentation of the overall solution in the pitch contest.
• Experiment: up to €80,000 subject to the degree of accomplishment of the KPIs defined among each SME and its coach at the beginning of this phase using a set of common objective criteria, i.e. those that ensure equal opportunities for funding to all participants. The selected participants are also required to attend 2 internal events organized by the consortium in this phase in Bilbao, and to develop an MVP.
• Evolve: up to €15,000 attached to the accomplishment of the KPIs defined between each SME and its coach at the beginning of this phase using a set of common objective criteria, i.e. those that ensure equal opportunities for funding to all participants. The selected participants are required to attend the final event organised by the consortium in Berlin.
• Therefore, a participant could receive as maximum €100,000 for a project.

What’s In It for You?

• A dedicated coach from the Deusto Entrepreneurship Centre, DeustoTech or etventure Startup Hub
• Training on state-of-the-art Big Data tools by University of Deusto and Engineering
• Major visibility for your start-up as part of the Big Data Value PPP European initiative.
• A technical infrastructure using FIWARE Lab providing a free Cloud based scalable Big Data tools stack.
• Connection with top Big-Data startups from all over Europe participating in the programme.
• Access to data providers to discuss and improve your product while reaching agreements for future exploitation.
• Training on soft-skills and on fundraising by etventure Startup Hub, Deusto Entrepreneurship Centre and Zabala Innovation Consulting.

Eligibility Criteria

• An automatic filtering to discard non-eligible proposals will follow the shortlist below. Eligibility criteria check will verify:
  • The existence of a legal SME/start-up in an eligible country, or, in the case of a group of individuals, their legal residence in an eligible country,
  • The uniqueness of the proposal,
  • The non-existence of the same proposal selected by Data Pitch, d. the verification of not having participated in any of the previous editions of the EDI programme,
  • The use of data proposed by EDI (except for Track 3),
  • The usage of Big Data tools to tackle a challenge,
  • The correct fulfilment of the submission form on F6S,
  • The link to any of the domain challenges or the data combination challenge (except for Track 3) and
  • The issues of multiple participation.
• For those proposals applying to Track 3 “bring your own data provider”, a prior evaluation to evaluate the eligibility of the data provider will be carried out. For this, your data provider will need to fill in a specific questionnaire as explained in the F6S Application Form. Eligibility criteria will verify:
  • Challenge description
  • Sample datasets description
  • Datasets compliance with GDPR
  • Anonymisation of the personal data
  • Inferring personal data
  • Informed consent
  • Ownership of data
  • Right of use
  • GDPR awareness
  • Infrastructure used to store the datasets at Data Provider premises.
• Proposals marked as non-eligible will get a rejection letter including the reasons (a to s) for being declared as non-eligible. No further feedback on the process will be given.

Eligible Countries

Only applicants legally established, and working, in the case of the individuals, in any of the following countries will be eligible:

• The Member States (MS) of the European Union (EU), including their outermost regions;
• The Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT) linked to the Member States;
• H2020 Associated countries: according to the updated list published by the EC .
• The UK applicants are eligible under the conditions set by the EC for H2020 participation at the time of the deadline of the call.

For more information, visit https://edincubator.eu/startups/