Deadline: 17-May-22
The European Commission (EC) is proud to annouce an open call for its grants program entitled “Data Space for Security and Law Enforcement” to facilitate innovation, it should not cover data sharing for investigative purposes.
The objective is to deploy a common European Security data space for innovation allowing research, development, testing, training and validation of algorithms for AI-based systems for security (law enforcement) based on various types of datasets, including operational pseudonymized and anonymized datasets, following the data minimisation principle. Particular attention must be given to reducing potential bias in algorithms to be used by law enforcement.
Technological sovereignty of Member States and the EU in the field of fighting crime and terrorism in the digital age is a fundamental public interest as well as a matter of national security, and can be strengthened by creating high quality and trusted datasets that would enable Member States’ Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) to develop and validate their own digital tools.
Tasks
This action will lay the economic, organisational and technical foundations of a federated data infrastructure. Specifically, it is expected that at the end of the project a system and a model of the data governance will be available, thus the project will include the following tasks:
- to develop a reference architecture, to define data standards and to determine criteria for certifications and product quality while addressing ethical concerns and complying with data protection requirements. Standardisation of data should be proposed and the framework may be defined based upon the UMF (uniform message format) project defining data models in a number of areas, such as data on persons, firearms and vehicles;
- to generate, collect, annotate and make interoperable data suitable to test, train and validate algorithms, which should be available for the training, validation and testing of tools using AI technologies, and, when possible, proportional and where provided for by law, shareable for security research purposes. There should be a monitoring process to ensure the quality of the data and the validation of the results. It would focus in particular the technical standard and the content, i.e. that the data is not biased against ethnicity, gender, nationality or other social categories.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 8.000.000,00.
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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