The F6S platform is the entry point for all proposals at https://www.f6s.com/euhubs4data. Submissions received by any other channel will be automatically discarded.

Remember to read the “Guidelines for Applicants”to get all the information you need to apply successfully.

The main goal of the experiments is to make use of the services included in the federated catalogue, proposing combinations of them for the development of innovative products or advanced services.

To achieve the main aim, it is expected that experiments should:

• Involve, at least, two services included in the federated catalogue provided by, at least, two different DIHs.
• Contribute to the specific challenges set out by one (or several) of the European Data Spaces set out within the framework of the European Data Strategy.
• Achieve Key Exploitable Results (KER) that could be delivered to market in the form of innovative data driven product or service.

Read the section 3.1 of the “Guidelines for Applicants” for more detailed information.

The EUHubs4Data consortium have published a federated catalogue provided by the different DIHs of the EUHubs4Data federation. The federated catalogue is divided in two different catalogues:

1. A catalogue of data-driven services, from which the experiments should involve, at least, two services provided by, at least, two different DIHs.
2. A catalogue of open datasets, where there is no indication/restriction of how to involve them in the experiment. Please be aware that private datasets are considered within the catalogue of data-driven services.

Therefore, to be eligible, applicants should propose an experiment that involve, at least two services provided by, at least, two different DIHs. It is not mandatory to use open datasets from the federated catalogue.

It is expected is that the experiment propose the use of a combination of services (coming from different DIHs) that complement each other, in order to benefit from a more advanced service not available in the individual offer of the DIHs. Therefore, eexperiments that use a larger combination of resources from the federated catalogue are welcome.

As long as the experiment involve, at least, two resources from the EUHubs4Data federated catalogue (as described above), applicants can also bring additional resources in the form of external datasets for the execution of their experiment.

Additionally, the generation of new datasets within the experiment is highly encouraged by the EUHubs4Data and will be taken into account in the evaluation of the experiment.

Yes, each applicant can submit up to two proposals per call for evaluation. In the case of a multiple submission by a SME or team, only the first two submitted through F6S platform (timestamp of the system) will enter our evaluation process, the rest being declared as non-eligible and will not be considered for evaluation in any case.

In the case of group of web entrepreneurs (individuals):

• The same individuals forming a team will be selected for funding only once, as in the case of an SME.
• Only the first two submitted proposals by the same individuals forming a team will be evaluated, as in the case of an SME.
• If an individual is taking part in several teams:
  • The members of the other teams will be informed about the participation of an individual in multiple teams.
  • The individuals participating in multiple teams will be requested to select only two proposals and will be removed from the others. This may affect the eligibility condition of a given proposal, if the number of individuals goes under 2.

Although two proposals will be accepted for evaluation, only one proposal can be accepted for funding per SME or team of individuals and per call.

The funding process is summarised in the following figure. First your application should accomplish the eligibility criteria. Then, your proposal will go through a remote evaluation carried out by external experts that will order the proposals by rank based on a the scored obtained on the evaluation criteria. Then the selection criteria will be applied to select the experiments proposed for funding.

For detailed information on the eligibility evaluation and selection criteria, see sections 2.4.1.2, 2.4.1.3 and 2.4.1.4 of the “Guidelines for Applicants”.

We will publish 3 Open Calls to be opened on December 2020, August 2021 and May 2022. Only official dates for the Open Call #1 are available:

• Call opening on 09/12/2020
• Deadline for submission via FS6 Platform 08/02/2021, 12:00 (noon) CET

There will not be deadline extensions unless a major problem, caused by EUHubs4Data and not by the proposers, makes the system unavailable.

Further information about the calendar of the Open Call #1 is available on the Guidelines for Applicants.

It is not necessary for this project since justification is results-driven. Payments are a flat rate, which are released if some conditions are met (check the previous question or the guidelines for applicants).

Payments are released if you achieve the expected results, which are monitored through a set of technical KPIs that will be included in the sub-grant agreement (see section 2.4.2.2 of the guidelines for applicants).

If you participate as a team of individuals (web entrepreneurs), you have to stick to that team. Only new members can be added to improve the team but not to change the initial team.

If you are participating as an SME, you are free to add new employees from the firm to the team. Notice that the people included in the proposal must be later involved in the execution. The team could be extended with new members, but the core team included in the proposal should be maintained as you have been awarded based on this group of experts. In case of justified reason, a member could be replaced by another expert with a similar profile.