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Innovative and Connected Public Administrations
Funding Program
Digital Europe
Call number
DIGITAL-2024-BESTUSE-06-INNOV-ADMIN
deadlines
Opening
29.02.2024
Deadline
29.05.2024 17:00
Funding rate
100%
Call budget
€ 1,000,000.00
Estimated EU contribution per project
€ 1,000,000.00
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short description
The aim of this action is to create the conditions for developing a platform for awareness raising, ideation and piloting interoperability assets needed for cross-border digital public services.
Call objectives
The Digital Decade target expects all key public services to be online by 2030. These should also be available to citizens and businesses from other Member States, without discrimination. The future Interoperable Europe Act will be a significant driver for this, supporting Member States’ efforts in the field on cross-border interoperability and data exchange. This action will help create capacity in Member States to successfully implement the Interoperable Europe Act and prepare the ground for related support measures.
The Interoperable Europe Act foresees the possibility of setting up policy implementation support projects, which may rely on existing Interoperable Europe solutions, but may also identify missing interoperability solutions to be developed.
Innovation measures can support the development and uptake of innovative interoperability solutions in the EU, through the involvement of GovTech actors or the establishment of an interoperability regulatory sandbox. These efforts may also be assisted by training, experience sharing, peer reviews as well as the use of an interoperability regulatory sandbox.
Strengthened collaboration between Member States is necessary to launch common projects supporting cross-border interoperability. This CSA aims to create the preconditions for Member States to work together, jointly identify the needs and develop a platform for awareness raising, ideation and piloting interoperability assets needed for cross-border digital public services. These may result in re-usable, interoperability solutions that may be presented to the Interoperable Europe Board and eventually become labelled Interoperable Europe solutions. The CSA will thus be essential to prepare an effective awareness-raising plan for the next phase of cross border digital public service development and testing.
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Expected effects and impacts
- A sustainable multi-stakeholder collaboration scheme, including a solid set of committed stakeholders and a framework for engaging new stakeholders in future, in full alignment with the governance structure set by the Interoperable Europe Act;
- A strategic roadmap for the envisaged actions and support measures needed for the achievement of Interoperable Europe objectives, based on a set of consultations, workshops, and meetings to gather requirements, best practices, and feedback from stakeholders;
- A detailed implementation plan on how this strategic roadmap could be implemented (including timeline, investment and capacity needs, milestones and KPIs).
Expected results
To this end, this CSA is expected to raise awareness and thereby bring together digital government ecosystems, experts and relevant stakeholders to identify requirements, solutions, innovation measures and joint pilots needed for the implementation of new cross-border services. This will need to be aligned with the measures and tools foreseen in the Interoperable Europe Act, including measures such as the regulatory sandboxes and Govtech. It will also foster training and peer reviews, when needs arise. It will also serve as a testbed for newly identified, re-usable interoperability solutions in the future. It should create a virtual environment where European public administrations can collaborate, share data, access cutting-edge tools and resources and facilitate the exchange of knowledge and data across borders for greater cross-border availability of digital public services. Proposers should also develop a broad communication strategy towards stakeholders. It should ensure coordination between the future Interoperable Europe Board and Community as well as other relevant stakeholders.
The CSA should not cover any elements that would lead to an overlap with actions on the European Digital Identity and Trust Ecosystem.
To this end, the action is expected to include:
- Convening public administrators and other relevant stakeholders in the EU to shape a collaboration platform for implementing the Interoperable Europe Act, including an appropriate governance structure;
- Mapping existing interoperability solutions that may help with the implementation of policy requirements and identifying any missing interoperability solutions to be developed;
- Identification of concrete actions and a roadmap needed for the achievement of Interoperable Europe objectives;
- Identification of synergies with relevant Union and national programmes policies and initiatives, including eIDAS, the Single Digital Gateway Regulation, data spaces and data-related legislation, the AI Act, ComPAct, Living-in.eu as well as relevant EDICS;
- Liaising with the Interoperable Europe Board and the Interoperable Europe Community to seek collaboration and ensure optimum level of interconnections and synergies.
All these activities will contribute to the capacity building of Member States’ public administrations to implement the obligations of the future Interoperable Europe Act on the ground.
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Eligibility Criteria
Regions / countries for funding
Moldova (Moldova), Albania (Shqipëria), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Bosna i Hercegovina / Босна и Херцеговина), Iceland (Ísland), Kosovo (Kosova/Kosovë / Косово), Liechtenstein, Montenegro (Црна Гора), North Macedonia (Северна Македонија), Norway (Norge), Serbia (Srbija/Сpбија), Türkiye, Ukraine (Україна)
eligible entities
Education and training institution, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)
Mandatory partnership
Yes
Project Partnership
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium comprised by a minimum of five (5) relevant national administrations or a legal entity designated to act on their behalf from five (5) different EU Member States.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be:
- legal entities (public or private bodies)
- established in one of the eligible countries:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- EEA countries (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)
- other countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (list of participating countries)
Specific cases:
Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person).
International organisations — International organisations are not eligible, unless they are International organisations of European Interest within the meaning of Article 2 of the Digital Europe Regulation (i.e. international organisations the majority of whose members are Member States or whose headquarters are in a Member State).
EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.
Entities without legal personality — Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
Associations and interest groupings — Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’.
other eligibility criteria
Projects involving EU classified information must undergo security scrutiny to authorise funding and may be made subject to specific security rules (detailed in a security aspects letter (SAL) which is annexed to the Grant Agreement).
Financial support to third parties is not allowed.
Additional information
Topics
Relevance for EU Macro-Region
EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region
UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)
project duration
12 months
Additional Information
Proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible via the Topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section. Paper submissions are NOT possible.
Proposals must be complete and contain all the requested information and all required annexes and supporting documents:
- Application Form Part A — contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator, beneficiaries and affiliated entities) and the summarised budget for the project (to be filled in directly online)
- Application Form Part B — contains the technical description of the project (to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded)
- Mandatory annexes and supporting documents (to be uploaded):
- detailed budget table/calculator: not applicable
- CVs of core project team: not applicable
- activity reports of last year: not applicable
- list of previous projects (key projects for the last 4 years) (template available in Part B): not applicable
- ownership control declarations (including for associated partners and subcontractors): not applicable
- other annexes: not applicable
Proposals are limited to maximum 50 pages (Part B).
Call documents
DIGITAL-2024-BESTUSE-06 Call documentDIGITAL-2024-BESTUSE-06 Call document(549kB)
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