World Leading Data and Computing Technologies (Horizon Europe)

This destination will directly support the following Key Strategic Orientations, as outlined in the Strategic Plan:

• KSO A, ‘Promoting an open strategic autonomy by leading the development of key digital, enabling and emerging technologies, sectors and value chains to accelerate and steer the digital and green transitions through human-centred technologies and innovations.’
• KSO C, ‘Making Europe the first digitally led circular, climate-neutral and sustainable economy through the transformation of its mobility, energy, construction and production systems.’

Proposals for topics under this Destination should set out a credible pathway to contributing to the following expected impact of Cluster 4 as set out in Horizon Europe Strategic Plan:

• Globally attractive, secure and dynamic data-agile economy, by developing and enabling the uptake of the next-generation computing and data technologies and infrastructures (including space infrastructure and data), enabling the European single market for data with the corresponding data spaces and a trustworthy artificial intelligence ecosystem.

What is the goal to be achieved?

• to make Europe the most successful area in the world in terms of data sharing and data re-use while respecting the legal framework relating to security and privacy and fostering collaboration and building on existing initiatives.
• to make the EU fully autonomous in processing, combining, modelling and analysing such large amounts of data for efficiently predicting future courses of action with high accuracy and advanced decision-making strategies.
• to ensure digital autonomy for Europe in key high-end supercomputing technology (hardware and software) and applications, and developing the first exascale supercomputer based predominantly on European technology by 2026.

Call topics for 2021

• World Leading Data and Computing Technologies: Data sharing in the common European data spaces
• World Leading Data and Computing Technologies: From Cloud to Edge to IoT for European Data

Call topics for 2022

• World Leading Data and Computing Technologies: Data sharing in the common European data spaces
• World Leading Data and Computing Technologies: Strengthening Europe’s data analytics capacity
• World Leading Data and Computing Technologies: From Cloud to Edge to IoT for European Data