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Call key data

Data space for manufacturing (deployment)

Funding Program

Digital Europe

Call number

DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-03-DS-MANUF

deadlines

Opening
29.09.2022

Deadline
24.01.2023 17:00

Funding rate

50 %; SME/KMU: 75 %

Call budget

€ 16,000,000.00

Estimated EU contribution per project

Project budget (maximum grant amount): € 8,000,000.00 per project

Link to the call

ec.europa.eu

Link to the submission

ec.europa.eu

Call content

short description

Data sharing among manufacturing companies and with (service) providers will be increased by the deployment of two data spaces of the manufacturing industry, which will demonstrate how sharing industrial data improves company operations (1) across supply chains and (2) using deep industrial data within production environments, enhances business opportunities for industrial data value added services, and supports the transition towards a circular economy.

Call objectives

Manufacturing data spaces and their AI-based analytics and optimisation applications can influence company-internal processes as well as processes across organisations. On the basis of the preparatory actions, the main objective is to deploy two operational data spaces across value chains in the manufacturing sector, which enable companies in different user roles (e.g. supplier, client, service provider) to interact with large amounts of industrial data across their organisational borders. The first data space will address agile supply chain management and execution across a large set of supply chain stakeholders, and the second one dynamic asset management and predictive/prescriptive maintenance, unlocking deep industrial data for trustworthy and reliable value-added services by parties outside a production site, such as machine tool manufacturer and integrator, improving production line operations.

Expected effects and impacts

The action calls for the deployment of two operational data spaces of the manufacturing industry, building on the results of the preparatory actions. The projects should have sufficient activities to lead to sustainability at the end of the action, as identified in the preparatory actions mentioned above.

Such data spaces will offer a secure and trustworthy way of making data usable between supplier and user companies on the basis of voluntary agreements. Starting from existing ‘embryonic’ data spaces with manufacturing companies, their data sharing will be completed, deepened, expanded, and/or enlarged with other organisations (e.g. reuse, repairing, remanufacturing, refurbishing or recycling companies in order to improve circularity) and gradually integrated into the Data Space Technical Infrastructure. The data spaces for manufacturing must be operated and coordinated by companies, an industrial association or a non-profit organisation demonstrating their capacity to act as trustworthy data brokers and to continue operations beyond the end of the action.

The actions need to target one of these two specific complementary data spaces for manufacturing:

  • Performing agile supply chain management and execution by continuously monitoring and exchanging status data on e.g. purchase orders, sales orders, inventory levels, order progress, demand forecasts, raw materials, chemicals and energy use and supply, etc. across the value chain. End users are different tiers in a supply chain (suppliers, OEMs, and customers).
  • Carrying out dynamic asset management and predictive/prescriptive maintenance by continuously monitoring and exchanging data on machine status, breakdowns, downtimes, service orders, etc. End users are machine users, machine vendors, maintenance service providers, and remanufacturers.

In addition, the actions need to address the following mandatory activities:

  • Bringing together relevant stakeholders to industrial data agreement(s) on design, reuse, recycling, and environmental impact and indicators for continuous monitoring and exchange of data on product performance and reuse, material content and origin,, feedback to design, product recycling, product remanufacturing, etc. The work should demonstrate data-based sustainable business models and the benefits of data sharing for the organisations participating in the value chains.
  • Carrying out further actions needed to effectively track and report resource use (e.g. CO2) from a manufacturer’s perspective in going forward. Actions should preferably target data sharing for circularity in line with the Circular Economy Action plan (COM(2020) 98 final).

The actions for the deployment of these two data spaces for manufacturing will have to gradually make use and be in full compliance with the European Data Spaces Technical Framework. They can profit from and use the smart middleware platform and tools. They will also have to coordinate and collaborate with other projects participating in the deployment of the data space, the Data Spaces Support Centre and the governance body identified by the first phase in order to allow integration of existing standards and to ensure interoperability and portability across infrastructure, applications and data.

Furthermore, the actions implementing the Data Spaces for Manufacturing are encouraged to cooperate with the European Digital Innovation Hubs for a broad uptake by the industry as well as the Testing and Experimentation Facility for Manufacturing to define European test and training data sets and to provide support in their establishment.

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Expected results

The two selected actions will deploy two data spaces for the manufacturing industry at scale, continuing to be available after the end of the project, that will build on and be integrated with the data space technical infrastructure, delivering industrial data sharing among manufacturing companies and with (service) providers, thanks to agreements on common rules for access to data and fair compensation. The solutions must be characterized by a high degree of user-orientation in terms of trustworthiness, data sovereignty of the companies and manageability. Particularly SMEs will benefit from larger sets of industrial data to broaden their offers in terms of products and services, with the support of the European Digital Innovation Hubs.

Actions will address one of the following expected outcomes:

  • Supply chain operations are more flexible, circular, effective and efficient, with reduced inventory levels, more timely deliveries between organisations, better resilience to interruptions of delivery channels, and reduced costs.
  • Maintenance operations are better timed, with reduced overall downtimes and maintenance costs, extended machine usage periods, new service models, and improved future machine designs.

As part of the actions addressing one of the expected outcomes above, the organisation(s) operating the data spaces will deliver good practices for data sharing agreements such as code of conduct and contract template enabling such a degree of trust that brings together a sizeable number of manufacturing companies.

Furthermore, stakeholders in these actions have to agree on approaches and ideas for circularity, on how to improve design, reuse, repair, remanufacturing, recycling, and environmental impact by data sharing and demonstrate benefits of the first generation of the product passports for all involved stakeholders as well as for sustainability. Interoperability of data within this data space will be designed such that cross-sectoral interoperability can be easily achieved in the future.

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Eligibility Criteria

Regions / countries for funding

EU Member States, Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT)
Iceland (Ísland), Liechtenstein, Norway (Norge)

eligible entities

Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)

Mandatory partnership

Yes

Project Partnership

Proposals must be submitted by minimum 3 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) for 3 different eligible countries.

other eligibility criteria

In order to be eligible, the entities must be:

  • be legal entities (public or private bodies)
  • be established in one of the eligible countries (i.e.: EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories) or non-EU countries (listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital  Europe Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature (together ‘DEP associated countries’, see list of participating countries)

Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legal personality separate from that of the natural person.

International organisations are not eligible, unless they are International organisations of European Interest within the meaning of Article 2 of the Digital Europe Regulation (i.e. international organisations the majority of whose members are Member States or whose headquarters are in a Member State).

Entities which do not have legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offerguarantees for the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.

EU bodies — EU bodies (with the exception of the European Commission Joint Research Centre) can NOT be part of the consortium.

Associations and interest groupings — Entities composed of members may participate as ‘sole beneficiaries’ or ‘beneficiaries without legal personality’. Please note that if the action will be implemented by the members, they should also participate (either as beneficiaries or as affiliated entities, otherwise their costs will NOT be eligible).

Additional information

Topics

Circular Economy, Natural Resources, 
Digitalisation, Digital Society, ICT

Relevance for EU Macro-Region

EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region

UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)

project duration

between 24 and 48 months

Additional Information

Proposal page limits and layout:

The application form will have two parts:

  • Part A to be filled in directly online  (administrative information, summarised budget, call-specific questions, etc.)
  • Part B to be downloaded from the Portal submission system, completed and re-uploaded as a PDF in the system (contains the technical description of the project);

mandatory annexes and supporting documents:

  • ownership control declaration

Page limit (part B): 70 pages

Call documents

Call Document DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-03Call Document DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-03(1350kB)

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