Description: Large-scale pilot projects will be launched aiming at the deployment at scale of innovative, sustainable, secure and cross-border cloud-to-edge based services applied in a set of well-chosen application sectors. These deployments will serve the double objective of, first, being the first actual concrete implementations and deployments of the middleware platform and its different open source middleware solutions serving the needs of a specific application sector and use case and the gained experience should feedback into this separate process. Diversity, both in geography and use cases, of the retained large scale pilot projects will therefore be key in testing the versatility and robustness of the platform. The second objective is to deploy additional cloud-to-edge services that are particularly innovative and/or not (yet) of enough general interest to be procured for the common good.
Basic Information
Reference Number: LS-2023-47566
Project Type: DIGITAL-SIMPLE DIGITAL Simple Grants
Type of MGA: DIGITAL Action Grant Budget-Based [DIGITAL-AG]
Details
Location: –
Work programme part: Large-scale pilots for cloud-to-edge based service solutions
Dates
Publication: 22.12.23
Closing Date: 30.05.24
Contact Information
Description
ExpectedOutcome:
Outcomes and deliverables
Outcomes:
- Reinforced European supply of resilient, competitive, distributed, green and secure cloud-to-edge based services.
- Wider and easier access, shorter time-to-delivery and higher sustainability of public and commercial services supplied to citizens and businesses including notably SMEs across the EU.
- Rapid deployment of EU-wide common data spaces.
Deliverables:
- Secured edge services, reaching a comparable level of maturity and resilience as traditional cloud environments;
- Highly secured, low latency local edge services running on green infrastructures that enable federate AI;
- Ultra-secured and ethical standards compliant data management such as through scalable blockchain based services;
- Predictive analytics and data visualisation services;
- Edge services with high performance and reliability, able to rapidly deploy new applications, and executing multiple intensive workloads stemming from different concurrent users.
Objective:
Large-scale pilot projects will be launched aiming at the deployment at scale of innovative, sustainable, secure and cross-border cloud-to-edge based services applied in a set of well-chosen application sectors. These deployments will serve the double objective of, first, being the first actual concrete implementations and deployments of the middleware platform and its different open source middleware solutions serving the needs of a specific application sector and use case and the gained experience should feedback into this separate process. Diversity, both in geography and use cases, of the retained large scale pilot projects will therefore be key in testing the versatility and robustness of the platform. The second objective is to deploy additional cloud-to-edge services that are particularly innovative and/or not (yet) of enough general interest to be procured for the common good.
The pilot projects would have to be co-designed and co-created in close cooperation between all the involved stakeholders representing well both the supply and the demand side and addressing concrete services and solutions.