Deadline: 1-Feb-22
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to launch a call for proposals for the Innovation Investments Strand 1 – DIGIT to unlock digital growth potential and deploy innovative solutions (both for businesses and citizens), to improve the accessibility and the efficiency of services and bridge the persisting digital divide.
Areas
The present call under this topic will support interregional investments projects in the following areas:
- Digital economy and innovation
- Digitization of the public administration
- Digitalisation of healthcare
Themes and Priorities
The present call for proposals under this topic encourages applications in one or more or combination of the following investment areas (non-exclusive list):
- Digital economy innovation
- The deployment of innovative solutions for businesses digitization and digital services, including the use of artificial intelligence;
- ICT up-take in SMEs applied to traditional and emerging sectors; B2B; B2C; Customer to Customer, including infrastructures and services to support this (digital innovation hubs, living labs, etc.);
- Demonstration of innovative digital technologies in view of the commercialization of research results and a better integration in EU value chains;
- User driven innovation and valuation of traceability and big data;
- Companies reinforcing EU cybersecurity value chain and protecting from hacking, ransomware and identity theft;
- “Digital based” open innovation, supporting entrepreneurial discovery processes and cooperation between academia and businesses in the framework of smart specialization;
- Digital skills for companies adopting innovative digital technologies (upskilling and reskilling) in the framework of investments relevant for Smart Specialization.
- Digital transformation of the public administration
- New or significantly upgraded services for e-government, including the take-up of Europe wide interoperable services which improve the efficiency of services delivered by public administrations to citizens, companies and other public bodies by using information and communication technologies such as artificial intelligence and cybersecurity;
- Investments in innovative solutions helping administrations to make services user-friendly, accessible and more interoperable. Those investments might include the demonstration of the validity of new digital technologies in view of the large-scale adoption of new IT systems.
- Digitization of healthcare
- Innovative investments in security of health data across borders (including cybersecurity);
- Investments related to the use of digital tools to stimulate prevention, enable feedback and interaction with the healthcare providers;
- Investments connected the digitization of healthcare systems, providing solutions to interoperability issues;
- Investments in digital health infrastructure (needed for demonstration processes), telemedicine, m-health and other innovative solutions for personalised medicine;
- Investments related to the acquisition of digital skills needed for the adoption of innovative technologies in healthcare.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 39,795,300 for 2021 and EUR 36,763,277 for 2022.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, ie:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries and countries associated to the I3 Instrument or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
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