Deadline: 22-Feb-22
The European Commission (EC) is offering grants under “Preparatory Actions for the Green Deal Data Space”.
Objectives
The Green Deal data space will interconnect currently fragmented and dispersed data from various ecosystems, both for/from the private and public sectors. It will offer an interoperable, trusted IT environment, for data processing, and a set of rules of legislative, administrative and contractual nature that determine the rights of access to and processing of the data.
The data space will also establish links with activities in other EU programmes such as Horizon Europe (in particular those funded under Cluster 4 “Digital, Industry and Space”, Cluster 5 “Climate, energy and Mobility”, Cluster 6 “Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment” and the relevant Missions) and the space programmes (e.g. Galileo and Copernicus) providing massive amounts of data including in real time.
In order to coordinate among the various initiatives contributing to the Green Deal objectives, the project will propose a roadmap for the deployment of a full-fledged common European Green Deal data space and liaise with potential users and other relevant actors to ensure synergies between users and infrastructures..
The Green Deal data space will be set up in synergy with the various relevant initiatives implementing the Green Deal Goals. In particular, in the context of this Work Programme, synergies will target:
- Relevant high quality data is expected to derive from the activities related to High Value Datasets in the framework of the Public sector Open data for AI and Open Data Platform.
- Data from other sectoral data spaces where relevant.
- The topics implementing Destination Earth initiative. It will also contribute through the development of a very high precision digital model of the Earth to enable visualising, monitoring and forecasting natural and human activity on the planet in support of sustainable development.
- To complement the work during the first two years, a Coordination and Support Action on Digital Product Passport will prepare the ground for a future common European data space for smart circular applications.
Scope
The funding will enable the establishment of a data governance mechanism, with a detailed roadmap on how the data space should progressively develop into a pan-European Green Deal data space, by connecting EU programmes, national, regional and local data ecosystems at the EU level.
The roadmap should describe how to integrate the various activities contributing to the common European Green Deal data space in line with existing policy priorities and existing initiatives, enabling all relevant actors to access and re-use data needed for their purposes in compliance with the dataspace governance scheme.
To this end, the roadmap should ensure that relevant users such as climate and environmental scientists are able to access and exploit the opportunities offered by Green Deal Data Space. Action to address potential barriers to such use cases should be identified in advance.
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 thereof. 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 2 000 000.
Expected Outcomes
- A sustainable data governance scheme as well as a blueprint that connects existing national, regional and local data ecosystems and enables public and private stakeholders to access relevant data; and to develop cross-sector data services.
- A priority list of datasets relevant to the European Green Deal Strategy;
- A roadmap towards the common European Green Deal data space
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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