This call of NGITrust project supports projects developing and using privacy and trust enhancing technologies to help users increase trust and achieve greater control when sharing their data. In particular, the call seeks for projects in the following areas:
• Technical innovation in privacy enhancing technologies (such as cryptography, federated identity, security and privacy for IoT, distributed ledgers and privacy-enhancing data transports and data at rest).
• Application of artificial intelligence or machine learning or neural networks to serve the user’s interests.
• Boost trust at the protocol level, to maintain a decentralised Internet Infrastructure, for the establishment of trust, privacy (and security) between end-users and services.
• Developing means for individuals to make more informed decisions on the relevance of information that they are asked to disclose when accessing and using services.
The call is open to
legal entities or natural persons registered or resident (respectively) in an
EU Member State or a Horizon 2020 associated country. Teams can involve experts from various disciplines including technological, legal ethical, sociological or economic expertise.
Funding granted will vary depending on the type of project:
1. Viability: up to € 100,000 funding (no matching funds required) for projects which explore and assess the technical feasibility and/or commercial potential of a breakthrough innovation (including conceptual development, risk assessment, market study or intellectual property management of a new technology or service, or a new application of existing technologies).
2. Execution: up to €180,000 funding (matching funds of up to €90,000 in a 2/3 – 1/3 model) for R&D or technology development projects underpinned by a strategic plan and feasibility assessment.
3. Transition to commercialisation: up to €200,000 funding (with equivalent in matching funds in a 50/50 model) for projects which pursue the commercialisation of privacy and trust enhancing innovation.
The duration of the projects will be up to 12 months and maximum award to any single third-party will be € 200,000 over the life-time of the NGI_TRUST project.
This first call, which launched on 1st February 2019, will seek to attract a broad mix of projects including a larger number of early-stage “feasibility” studies (type 1) and will follow this timeline:
• Deadline for submission of applications: Tuesday 30th April 2019 at 18:00 (CET)
• Eligibility check and evaluations of proposals: May 2019.
• Selected projects and communication to EC for approval: June 2019
• Contracting and signature of third-party grants: July 2019.
NGI_TRUST is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme and aims at building on the the state of the art in privacy and trust enhancing technologies, at reinforcing the community, at improving user trust and acceptance, and at fostering the exploitation and commercialization of projects using these technologies.
During the project, two more calls are expected (scheduled to open in October 2019 and February 2020) and will aim to build on this call’s projects, but also attract additional players with scalable projects in specific fields, industries or verticals.
