Fostering Innovative and Compliant Data Ecosystems (IA) (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership)
Developing an agile and secure single market and infrastructure for data-services and trustworthy artificial intelligence services
€7.0M - €9.0M
02/10/2025
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other
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What is the Fostering Innovative and Compliant Data Ecosystems (IA) (AI, Data and Robotics Partnership) Call?
Expected Outcomes
• Significantly eased compliance for businesses and professionals with EU legislation (digital and non-digital), reducing administrative/reporting burdens.
• Advanced, integrated technologies for automated data collection, sharing and analytics to simplify compliance workflows.
• Robust synthetic data solutions that enhance data quality, diversity, representativeness and fitness for purpose, while mitigating bias and ethical risks of real-world data.
• Broad user training and support frameworks to roll out and scale “compliance & privacy by design” and FAIR data principles across diverse regulatory landscapes and organisational contexts.
Scope Requirements
• Analyse and address real user and stakeholder needs, linking training and support to quantifiable KPIs.
• Incorporate cybersecurity, interoperability, reproducibility and standardisation where relevant; liaise with other projects on these aspects.
• Ensure FAIR data principles (“Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable”) and “compliance and privacy by design”.
• Develop synergies with the Digital Europe Common European Data Spaces, especially via the Data Spaces Support Centre, and ensure complementarity with past projects under HORIZON-CL 4-2024-DATA-01-01 and HORIZON-CL 4-2021-DATA-01-01.
• Gender dimension integration is encouraged but not mandatory.
• Align with the description and expected impacts of Destination 3 in the Horizon Europe Work Programme (Digital, Industry and Space).
Special Conditions
• Total topic budget: €45 000 000; expected grant size per project: €7 000 000–€9 000 000; co-programmed under the European Partnership on AI, Data and Robotics.
• Eligibility restricted to legal entities established in EU Member States, Iceland, Norway, associated countries and OECD countries; entities directly/indirectly controlled by non-eligible countries are excluded.
• Must comply with general Annexes A–G of Horizon Europe Work Programme (admissibility, eligibility, evaluation, legal & financial set-up).
• Applicants must use the Destination 3 (“Developing an agile and secure single market...”) description and expected impacts from the Horizon Europe Work Programme.
• Model Grant Agreement: Horizon Action Grant (budget-based); follow HE Programme Guide and Funding & Tenders Portal instructions.
Open from: 10/06/2025
Deadline:02/10/2025
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