The call on Data Space for Skills (Deployment), funded by the Digital Europe Programme, aims to develop and deploy a secure and trusted data for skills. The data space for Skills is a space for sharing and accessing skills data for various purposes such as analytical, statistical or even policy development.

Targeted stakeholders

• Education institutions and training providers
• Public-private employment providers
• Companies and associations

Expected outcomes

• Technical infrastructure for the deployment of the data space for skills.
• Data governance documentation, comprising a set of rules of legislative, administrative and contractual nature covering access rights, processing, using and sharing data in a trustful and transparent manner.
• Setup of the Data Space Governance Authority.
• Guidance/training documents for the stakeholders willing to join the data space.
• Update of the Blueprint inherited from the preparatory action DS4Skills to keep it aligned with the most recent version released by the DSSC.
• A long-term economic sustainability business plan for the skills data space.

Eligibility Criteria

• Entities established in the EU and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme.
• The consortium composition proposals must be submitted by minimum of 4 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 4 different eligible countries.

Funding

• Up to EUR 3.000.000 per project.
• The indicative number of grants is 1.

For further technical requirements about the application, please check this link.

The deadline is 29 May 2024, 17:00 Brussels Time.