Data Space for Skills (Deployment)

• May 10, 2024
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The call on Data Space for Skills (Deployment), funded by the Digital Europe Programme, aims to develop and deploy a secure and trusted data space 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. The awarded proposal must build upon the Data Space for Skills Blueprint project.

Targeted Stakeholders

• Education and training providers,

• businesses,

• Human Resources (HR) organisations

• Employment agencies

• Public employment services

• Guidance providers

• IT developers,

• Other private and public actors in job search and recruitment services as well as data sharing,

• Trade and industry associations,

• Alliances

• social partners

Expected Outcome

• 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

• The proposal must be submitted by a consortium of at least 4 independent entities from 4 different countries

• Eligible countries are EU Member States and countries associated with the Digital Europe Programme

Funding

• Total Budget: up to 3 million EUR

• Amount per project: 3 million  EUR

• Number of funded project proposals: 1

Timeline

The deadline to submit applications is set to 29 May 2024, 17:00 CEST, Brussels time