German BMWK and Austria Research Promotion Agency (FFG) had two bilateral calls for proposals on topic smart data usage, "Smart and sovereign use of data for production” in 2020 and “Smart and sovereign use of data for sustainable production” in 2021.
The aims of both calls were:
• identification, extraction and organisation of production-relevant data
• to increase flexibility and efficiency in production by processing production-relevant data
• ensuring the security and availability of production-relevant data.
The second call had an additional focus on sustainability, environment and climate goals.
Besides, resulting lead projects from both calls should also illustrate the technological and economic benefits of the open GAIA-X platform.
As the winner of the competition in the first call, the EuProGigant project with a German-Austrian consortium started on the 1. March 2021. Project champI4.0ns won in the second call and started on 1. May 2022.
