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Developing citiverse

European Comission

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11 May 2023
22 November 2023
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For profit
Not for profit (incl. NGOs)
Public sector
R&D and Higher Education
Aruba
Austria
Belgium
Bonaire
Bulgaria
Croatia
Curaçao
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Estonia
EU
Finland
France
French Polynesia
French Southern and Antarctic Territories
Germany
Greece
Greenland
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Netherlands
New Caledonia
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Saba
Saint Barthélemy
Serbia
Sint Maarten
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
St. Eustatius
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Sweden
Turkey
Ukraine
Wallis and Futuna
Arts, Culture and Heritage
Research, Development and Innovation Engineering and Technology
Research, Development and Innovation Natural Sciences
Research, Development and Innovation Social Sciences
Transport, Infrastructure and ICT
Overview

ExpectedOutcome :

The action will result in one or more projects proposing varied use cases for the CitiVerse. Such project(s) may be focusing on the same pilot areas envisaged by the EU Smart Communities data space project (call 3 [DIGITAL-2022-CLOUD-AI-03-DS-SMART]), although focus on other pilot areas is also possible. The concept could also be built on the existing EU data infrastructure and interconnected Local Digital Twins.

The project(s) should also propose a roadmap to expand CitiVerse solutions in Europe using Minimal Interoperability Mechanisms (MIM)-compliant standards and EU technology solutions and make recommendations for interoperable and open CitiVerse platforms in line with EU values and policy landscape.

Objective :

The action will help define what the ‘CitiVerse’ means for Europe building on the smart communities’ data infrastructure that is developed under WP2021-22 and WP23-24. The objective is to bring EU CitiVerse industry, including SMEs, together in developing the different layers of VR/AR worlds useful for local authorities and citizens. The project(s) stemming from this action will take into account potential EDIC in the field.

The action could build on existing local digital twins expanding their capabilities. One or more projects, led by the industry in cooperation with one or more communities, will introduce VR/AR and metaverse technology to allow citizens and other stakeholders to «navigate and interact» in their urban spaces from basic ‘default’ sensory experiences all the way to digital asset-enhanced AR overlays merging the physical and virtual communities into a hybrid metropolis. This will create a steady and immersive environment for citizens and businesses, a CitiVerse, that can be used for virtual/real spatial planning, management or navigation while also enhancing the social, architectural, green and cultural heritage dimension of living spaces.

Use cases will span from hybrid systems to fully-fledged verses created with data coming from various data sources, notably from the EU data spaces such as the smart cities and communities, but also from other public and private sources. European industry, including the wealth of European SMEs active in technologies relevant for metaverses and in content creation, will contribute to its development, taking the leadership in an area rich of possibilities. The action will contribute to the ecosystem of SMEs and larger companies nurtured through the VR/AR Industrial Coalition, and at the same time it can benefit from the mobilising and structuring actions of the Coalition as well as from integrating the values and principles of the New European Bauhaus initiative. The action should also explore links and synergies with the Climate-neutral and smart cities Mission, and in particular to selected Mission cities, when identifying use cases.

Scope :

In particular, the action will:

  • Start developing the CitiVerse for citizens to offer them interoperable and sustainable services.
  • Develop concrete CitiVerse use cases (and combinations of them) in the area of navigating in a community, discovering its assets such as culture, history, tourism and offering innovative services related to tourism, entertainment, shopping, future development and urban planning, etc., infrastructure management and sustainable mobility.
  • Encourage EU technology providers to integrate various data sources together to develop and train AI in a new specific CitiVerse context.
  • Activate a network of EU industrial partners, including SMEs, in Member States to provide technology capacity for the CitiVerse. This network may be part of, and interact with, the VR/AR Industrial Coalition and/or the New European Bauhaus initiative.
  • Identify building visualization solutions and multi-dimensional models to implement CitiVerse prototypes.
  • Exploit the long tradition of Europe in cultural and media content, involving European content creators, in particular SMEs, in the design of engaging in immersive CitiVerse environments.
  • Work towards recommendations for a robust, open and interoperable CitiVerse legal framework compatible with EU values and laws.
  • Include security by design and plan how CitiVerse applications and platforms can be used in real-life contexts.
Eligibility

Conditions

  1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document

Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System

  1. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document

  2. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document

  3. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document

  4. Evaluation and award:

  • Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document
  • Submission and evaluation processes : described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual
  • Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document

6 . Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document

Documents

Call document is accessible here

Standard application form — call-specific application form is available in the Submission System

Detailed budget table - available in the Submission System

DIGITAL EUROPE PROGRAMME - General MGA v1

Guidance Classification of information in DIGITAL projects

Guidelines on How to Complete your Ethics Self-Assessment

Guidance on participation in DEP - restricted calls

Digital Europe Work Programme 2023-2024

Digital Europe Programme Regulation 2021/694

EU Financial Regulation 2018/1046

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22 November 2023