Deadline: 22-Feb-22
The European Commission (EC) is offering grants under “Preparatory actions for the data space for skills” to deploy a secure and trusted data space to support sharing and accessing skills data for various purposes, from analytical and statistical purposes to policy development or re-use in innovative applications.
The data space will provide easy, cross-border access to key datasets, deploying trust mechanisms (security and privacy by design) and develop data services matching European values, in particular of ethics, diversity and privacy.
Scopes
The project will explore conceptual approaches and possible options and for the future deployment of this data space. Provisions for transparent and ethical data access and use, development of governance and business models for the data space are to be developed considering, among others, the evolving regulatory environment, cross-data-space elements, interoperability, equality, privacy and security issues.
- The action will engage the community of stakeholders involving organisations at EU/multi-country level, public administrations and/or governmental bodies, private and public actors (Including IT developers and end-users), education and training providers. In particular, the project will:
- Undertake an inventory of existing platforms collecting, storing and sharing education and skills data, in particular related to the green and digital transformations;
- Explore different possible design approaches for the data space (e.g. serving private data sharing and interests, that are also complemented by public data, serving private and public interests), and elaborate the advantages and disadvantages;
- Propose design/conceptual approaches, for the set-up of the data space, for the possible categorization of skills and identify common essential elements and develop corresponding business models;
- Explore what services and applications could be envisaged in the future;
- Develop a multi-stakeholder governance scheme of the data space;
- Get broad consensus on the approach, governance, and business models.
- The action will have to work in partnership with the Data Spaces Support Centre in order to ensure alignment with the European Data Spaces Technical Framework and the rest of the ecosystem of data spaces. The joint work will target the definition of:
- the data space reference architecture, building blocks and common toolboxes to be used;
- the common standards, including semantic standards and interoperability protocols, both domain-specific and crosscutting;
- the data governance models, business models and strategies for running data spaces.
Funding Information
- The available call budget is EUR 1 000 000.
Expected Outcomes
The coordination and support action will provide:
- An inventory of existing platforms collecting, storing and sharing data relevant for education and skills (public and private). A particular focus should be placed on the analysis of skills relevant for attaining the targets of the Digital Decade;
- A proposed design approach based on scenarios with corresponding business models;
- A multi-stakeholder governance scheme specific to the sector;
- A blueprint for the data space including an architecture considering common building blocks;
- Interim results in due time to inform the development of the implementation action to be supported under the next Work Programme;
- Input to the work of the Data Spaces Support Centre.
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, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- non-EU countries:
- listed EEA countries and 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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