Deadline: 17-May-22
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the grant program entitled “Public Sector Open Data for AI and Open Data Platform” increase the easy availability, quality and usability of public sector information in compliance with the requirement of the Open Data Directive, in order to boost the re-use and combination of open public data across the EU for the development of information products and services, including AI applications.
Grants will support public administrations at local, regional and national level in increasing semantic, technical and legal interoperability and data portability of the High Value Datasets (HVDs) identified by the forthcoming corresponding implementing act and selected in specific categories to the Open Data Directive namely: Geospatial, Earth observation and environment, Meteorological, Statistics, Companies and company ownership, Mobility. In addition, the applicable data sharing rules for selected HVDs belonging to Geospatial, Earth observation and environment, Meteorological domains will complement the provisions of the Directive on Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) and further support Green Deal related initiatives.
More concretely, proposals must clearly detail how each of the points below will be addressed:
- Datasets generated must be discoverable and available through one or more Member States’ open data portals for free;
- Conditions for the publication and re-use of datasets generated by the proposed actions must be machine readable and compatible with open standard licence
- Concrete sets of quality standards (list of attributes, formats, structure, semantics, documentation, terms of use) with a technical specification and required set of data quality attributes must be proposed to ensure cross-border interoperability for each dataset and its wider re-use on the EU level.
- Existing or newly developed Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) must be implemented to give access to datasets addressed by the proposed action.
- Concrete Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) must be proposed in order to evaluate the benefits of the implemented solution(s) for citizens and/or businesses.
- Relevant legal aspects concerning data use, adoption, sharing, etc., whether at European or national level, additional to those related to ensuring GDPR compliance must be addressed, including licensing aspects.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 20.000.000,00.
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
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be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
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non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries
- countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme 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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