InDiCo-Global offers Up to €1,000,000 Funding to promote European Digital/ICT Standards

Deadline Date: August 05, 2024

 Donor Name: InDiCo-Global

 Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000

InDiCo-Global will provide € 1.000.000 of funding to promote European digital/ICT standards in target countries/regions (African Union, China, Eastern Partnership, India, Latin America and Caribbean, Southeast Asia, Western Balkans), building bridges across technical communities.

Through three open calls, this funding will enable the specialists to promote the European Standardisation System (ESS) and European standards in partner countries/regions for select ICT/digital technologies, thereby creating opportunities for capacity building as well as strengthening and promoting Europe’s position and vision in global standardisation initiatives.

1st Open Call Topic Priorities

• EU Data Strategy
• European Accessibility Act
• Chips Act
• Digital Services Act
• Digital Market Act
• Cybersecurity Act
• Cyber Resilience Act
• AI Act
• eIDAS Regulation
• Data Act
• Data Governance Act
• Circular Economy Action Plan
• Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
• Network and Information Security Directive
• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• ePrivacy?
• Open Data Directive

Proposal Topics

The list, building on topics from the Multi-Stakeholder Platform Rolling Plan for ICT Standardisation, provides a blueprint for the main tech areas under consideration.

• Foundational Drivers
  • Data Economy
  • Cybersecurity/Network and Information security
  • E-Privacy
• Key Enablers
  • 5G and Beyond (6G)
  • Cloud and Edge Computing
  • Big Data & Open data
  • IoT Internet of Things
  • Electronic identification and trust services (including e-signature)
  • E-infrastructure for data and computing intensive service
  • Broadband infrastructure mapping
  • Accessibility of ICT products and services
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (EGNSS)
  • Quantum Technologies
• Societal Challenges
  • E-Health, Healthy living and ageing
  • Accessibility of ICT products and services
  • Digital skills
  • Digital learning
  • E-Government
  • E-call
  • Pandemic Preparedness
  • Safety, transparency and due process online
  • Emergency communications and public warning systems
  • E-Procurement
  • E-Invoicing
  • Retail payments
  • FinTech & RegTech Standardisation
  • Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies
• Sustainable Growth
  • Smart Grids and Smart Metering
  • Smart and Sustainable Cities
  • ICT Environmental impact
  • Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Digitisation of Industry
  • Robotics and autonomous systems
  • Construction building information modelling
  • Water management digitalisation
  • U-Space
  • Circular Economy, including Digital Product Passport

International Cooperation Principles

• Enhance and develop cooperation on EU’s ICT standards
• Develop knowledge exchange activities for targeted actors
• Learn about the European ICT standardisation landscape
• Develop common approaches, tools and guidelines on lessons learned

Funding Information

• In accordance with Article 137 of the Financial Regulation No 966/2012 on Financial Support to Third Parties, the maximum amount to be granted to each Third Party may not exceed € 50.000 (fifty thousand euro). In practice, an individual may apply and be awarded funding (Financial Support to Third Parties) under different calls but cannot exceed an overall total limit of € 50.000 (fifty thousand euros) in funding.

Type of Activities

Proposals may include various types of activities linked to policy and standardisation for digital, such as: 

• Landscaping analyses/studies (e.g. Policy, Regulation and Standards landscape in the African Union, Southeast Asia, Eastern Partnership, Western Balkans, etc.);
• Organisation of thematic events & workshops;
• Bilateral interactions with European SDOs and policymakers;
• Hackathons;
• Developer outreach;
• Training workshops;

Who can receive financial support?

• Potential applicants to InDiCo-Global’s Open Calls must be legal entities based in European Union Member States and Associate Countries or in the countries within the targeted geographies of InDiCo-Global, excluding China and Belarus.
• To avoid double-funding, any proposed activities already financed through other means or instruments will be rejected. However, co-funding of the submitted proposal is permissible.

For more information, visit InDiCo-Global.