Data Space for Skills (deployment)
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Data Space for Skills (deployment)

This call aims to develop and deploy a secure and trusted data space for skills.

Details

Status
Closed
Publication date
9 May 2024
Opening date
Deadline model
Single-stage
Deadline date
29 May 2024, 17:00 (CEST)
Industrial Ecosystem
  • Digital
Level of funding
  • EU level

Description

Overview

Objectives

The objective of the call is to develop and deploy a secure and trusted data space for skills. Data is at the core of skills, education, training and employment, offering enormous potential for innovative applications. Databases of job offers, qualifications, learning opportunities, lists of curricula and certifications, inventory of topics studied at all levels of education and training, as well as skills classifications, can help better define human resource, business, employment as well as education and training policy strategies and add value for learners. The data space for skills is a European Common Data Space for sharing and accessing skills data for various purposes, from analytical and statistical purposes to policy development or re-use in innovative applications in line with European values, with a particular emphasis on ethics, diversity and privacy.

Activities/actions supported

The awarded proposal will integrate, test and deploy the data space for skills, based on existing technical building blocks and on the concept and design elaborated in the framework of the preparatory action on data space for skills. It will also provide continuous maintenance operations of the data space, monitor the usage of the data space and offer a helpdesk. The awarded proposal will also work in close partnership with the Data Spaces Support Centre in order to ensure alignment with the rest of the ecosystem of data spaces implemented with the support of Digital Europe Programme, in particular in view of a data spaces reference architecture; common building blocks, toolboxes and standards, semantic interoperability; and data governance models.

Complementarity will be sought with other existing tools such as Europass, ESCO, European Digital Credentials for Learning, European Learning Model, EURES, the EU Digital Identity Wallet or Skills-OVATE, by establishing links to actions of these initiatives as appropriate.

Anticipated outcomes

Expected outcomes include the following:

  • Technical infrastructure for the deployment of the data space for skills;
  • Guidance/training documents for the stakeholders willing to join the data space;
  • A report about the connection of the data space with EU initiatives on skills and qualifications data, such as for example initiatives linked to the Digital Skills & Jobs Coalition.

Institution providing the funding

European Commission

Size of funding

EUR 3.000.000

Conditions

Overview of eligibility criteria

To be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries (i.e. EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)), or EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme).

Proposals must be submitted by a minimum of 4 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 4 different eligible countries. More information about eligibility can be found in the call document.

Overview of award criteria

Project proposals will be assessed taking into account the following 4 criteria, for a maximum of 100 points:

  • Relevance (maximum 30 points)
  • Quality - Project design and implementation (maximum 30 points)
  • Impact (maximum 5 points)

The threshold for individual criteria is 3 points. The overall threshold is 10 points.

Procedures

Application procedures

Standard application form call-specific application form is available here.

Application support available

For further information, please check the text of the call (link below). Furthermore, you can get support through https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu/write-us_en or through the online manual: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/funding-tenders-opportunities/display/OM/Online+Manual

Useful links

Link to funding opportunity

Link to the programme for more info