Advanced Digital Skills for AI Uptake in Health

Yes, Irish entities can apply and receive funding from this call.

No, there is no minimum revenue criterion for companies applying for funding. Companies must fulfil the eligibility rules (e.g. eligible country) and have enough financial and operational capacity to participate in the planned activities. Please see sections '6. Eligibility' and '7. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion' of the call documentPDF for more details.

No. Newly created SMEs can also apply as long as they otherwise fulfill the eligibility rules (e.g. eligible country) and have enough financial and operational capacity to participate in the planned activities.

Participation in this call is by entity that has to be registered in the Funding and Tenders Portal and have a PIC number (Participant Identification Code). 'Natural persons' (with exception of self employed persons) are not eligible to apply. Please see the call documentPDF page 22.

Yes, Albania is an associated country to the Digital Europe programmePDF and companies from Albania can participate in and receive funding from this call.

There is no recommendation about the number of entities per consortium, as long as the minimum requirement as indicated on page 23 of the call documentPDF is met. The number of consortium members will depend on the project design, which is at the discretion of the applicants.

UK entities may participate, but are not eligible to receive funding from DEP. They cannot be Beneficiary nor Affiliated entity, but only an Associate Partner.

In addition to the information provided in the call document, applicants may consult the following reference documents on lump sum grants:

EU Grants: How to manage your lump sum grants: how-to-manage-your-lump-sum-grants_en.pdfPDF

Model Grant Agreement for Lump Sum Grants: ls-mga_en.pdfPDF

Please carefully read the Call documentPDF and the topic-related Q&As first. If your question is still not answered, please send it to us via the "write to us" form, indicating the call/topic ID in question.

No, there is no limit on the number of employees per participating organisation. However, the list of 'Project teams and staff', i.e. staff included in the project budget, must be included in the Proposal Part B within the proposal page limit.

Applicants should provide Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure the planned outcomes and deliverables of the project. Each KPI, particularly compulsory project and programme KPIs, must be clearly linked to specific milestone(s), deliverable(s), task(s) and/or work package(s). KPIs should be relevant, have realistic targets, and reflect the project's main outcomes and deliverables.

Projects funded under this call for proposals are required to involve the European network of AI-powered advanced screening centres in at least the three following ways:

• When consulting at least 30 healthcare organisations to identify AI-related skills gaps, at least 20 of these organisations must belong to the network (see the ‘KPIs to measure outcomes and deliverables’ subsection on call documentPDF page 9);
• When designing the training programmes (see the ‘Scope’ subsection on call documentPDF page 8 and the ‘Outcomes and deliverables’ subsection on page 9); and
• By making the training available to members of the network at least quarterly (see the ‘Scope’ subsection on call documentPDF page 8).

The call document does not specify any healthcare professional groups that should be especially targeted.

As stated on call documentPDF page 8, “Proposals with high ambitions in terms of the number of participants trained and successful completion of the programmes, as well as delivering excellent programmes, are likely to be assessed more positively. Additionally, proposals delivering their activities in several Member States, and proposals striving for reaching gender balance in their training participation, are likely to have more added value.” In addition, the following key performance indicators (KPIs) must be defined in each proposal (see call documentPDF page 9):

• Number of education and training programmes designed and delivered specified by: specific target groups, level of digital skills acquired (from basic to advanced), duration of the different programmes, and the AI solutions applied
• Number of hospitals whose staff received the training
• Number of participants successfully completing training offerings
• Number of eligible countries reached by the project activities, including dissemination and communication activities (at least 15 Member States)

The secretariat of the network is provided by the European Commission and its contact details will be shared later with the funded project(s) only.

Information on the network can be found here: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu

Yes, Serbia is an associated country to DEP, applicants from Serbia can apply and receive funding from this call. Please see the list of eligible countries list-3rd-country-participation_digital_en.pdfPDF.