This program supports the development online privacy protection solutions.
Activities supported
Proposals should address only one of these areas:
Privacy enhancing technologies (PET): proposals should develop novel designs and tools to provide users with the functionality they require without exposing any more information than necessary, and without losing control over their data, to any third parties.
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in practice: proposals should develop tools and methods to assist organisations to implement the GDPR taking into account the final provisions of GDPR and guidance from relevant authorities.
Secure digital identities: proposals should develop innovative, secure and privacy enhancing digital identity platforms beyond national eID systems.
Requirements
The applicant must be a consortium of at least 3 different unrelated legal entities in 3 different Horizon 2020 affiliated countries.
Financing
The Commission considers that proposals requesting a contribution from the EU of between EUR 2 and 3 million would allow this area to be addressed appropriately. Nonetheless, this does not preclude submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts. Funding rate is 70% for profit seeking organizations and 100% for non-profits.
Upcoming calls
This program will have 1 more call on 2017 August 24 which has a budget of 18 million euros.