Deadline: 24-Jan-23
The European Commission (EC) is seeking proposals for its Large-Scale Pilots for Cloud-to-edge Based Service Solutions.
Scope
The projects consist of the large-scale rollout of several of the following advanced ‘cloud-to-edge’ services across the EU:
- Edge cybersecurity services, notably for shared edge resources;
- Highly secured, low latency local edge services running on green infrastructures that enable federated Artifical Intelligence and;
- Ultra-secure and ethical standards compliant data management such as through scalable blockchain based services.
- Predictive analytics and data visualisation services;
- Edge-cloud native multi-tenancy
Objectives
- Large-scale pilot projects will be launched aiming at the deployment at scale of innovative, sustainable, secure and cross-border cloud-to-edge based services applied in a set of well-chosen application sectors. These deployments will serve the double objective of, first, being the first actual concrete implementations and deployments of the middleware platform and its different open source middleware solutions serving the needs of a specific application sector and use case and the gained experience should feedback into this separate process. Diversity, both in geography and use cases, of the retained large scale pilot projects will therefore be key in testing the versatility and robustness of the platform. The second objective is to deploy additional cloud-to-edge services that are particularly innovative and/or not (yet) of enough general interest to be procured for the common good.
- The pilot projects would have to be co-designed and co-created in close cooperation between all the involved stakeholders representing well both the supply and the demand side and addressing concrete services and solutions.
- The selected projects should act as showcases for the whole of the Union, providing concrete examples of how they could be taken up and implemented in other application sectors by clearly demonstrating the added-value they bring.
Funding Information
Amount: EUR 40.000.000,00
Outcomes
- Reinforced European supply of resilient, competitive, distributed, green and secure cloud-to-edge based services.
- Wider and easier access, shorter time-to-delivery and higher sustainability of public and commercial services supplied to citizens and businesses including notably SMEs across the EU.
- Rapid deployment of EU-wide common data spaces.
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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