Deadline: 19-Oct-21
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the Interoperability Community.
Scope
Facilitate the coordination and alignment of projects and support interaction between the various related initiatives happening at European and National level.
- The project should support a community of practice that includes interoperability expertise relevant to the energy transition that keeps track and maintains an expertise around changes in requirements, emerging use cases and regulatory condition.
- development of IT/ICT, evolution of relevant standards and all activities impacting interoperability, virtualisation and digital twins, data spaces.
- industrial and working groups’ efforts towards interoperability (including ontologies, core models etc.).
Funding Information
The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for:
- public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and
- cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).
Expected Outcomes
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Ensure continuity of the ongoing interoperability of energy services related activities.
- Ensure horizontal coordination and support, sustainable up-take of the energy services related to interoperability, data spaces and digital twins.
- Support and disseminate a common framework for testing interoperability across running projects. Harmonise interoperability testing procedures.
- Increased interoperability of energy services, data and platforms, both at the function and business layers.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
- eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe;
- low- and middle-income countries.
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