REINFORCING Grant on “Responsible Digitalization”

• Eligibility Criteria
  For the REINFORCING Grant:
  – Applicants established in an EU country (Member State or associated country), including their outermost regions or associated countries eligible to receive HEU grants, provided that the applicants are not covered by the Council sanctions in force;
  – Applicants must be legal entities already established at the moment of the submission, such as, but not limited to, Civil Society Organisations (CSO), Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO), Higher Education Institutions, Research Centres and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME);
  – Applicants must declare their financial stability;
  – Applicants shall not have any potential conflict of interest with the REINFORCING selection process (notably they should not have legal relationship with any organisation that is a member of the REINFORCING consortium, including affiliated entities).
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Europe
• Application Language: English

REINFORCING is currently accepting applications for its grant program to support organisations and territories to experiment with ORRI approaches around the topic of “Responsible Digitalization” and implement actions to open their research and innovation processes and align them to societal needs and expectations.

Specific Challenges of the Open Call

Four specific challenges to be addressed under this ORRI Booster call have been identified for promoting “Responsible Digitalization”. This list of challenges to be addressed under this ORRI Booster call is not exhaustive nor limited to these specific ones:

• Public engagement around digital technologies: Many digital technologies work as “black boxes” and many citizens are completely blind about their inner workings.
• Privacy, transparency and trust in digitalization processes: The deployment of digital technologies such as Artificial Intelligence or Internet of Things raises several issues around the preservation of these human values in different contexts.
• Digital literacy and digital divides: The rapid advancement of digital technologies also creates divides in the population regarding access, knowledge and mastering of these technologies.
• Misinformation and manipulation: Digital technologies have created new and powerful vehicles for old problems around communication and public debate. They also have raised serious threats for modern western democracies.

Funding Information

For this ORRI Booster call, not more than 14 organisations/consortia. implementing projects lasting 8 months will be supported with grants of up to 20,000 euros each.

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