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DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-DS-HEALTH-STORAGE

Health: Data ingestion capacities and data services for the European Genomic Data Infrastructure in the European Health Data Space: data storage and processing capacity -

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Expected Outcome:

  • 1+MG data storage strategy.
  • Secure federated data storage and processing capacity for 1+MG data infrastructure.

Objective:

This action contributes to boosting the capacity of Member States to sequence human genomes through scaling up dedicated secure data storage and processing environments. Data volume is crucial in genomics analytics, and efficient storage and management of large data sets, such as genomics, is essential; to ensure efficient processing, genomic data storage solutions should be flexible and scale with needs. Genomic data, once curated, must not only be stored safely, but also be processed in secure processing environments, which is a particular challenge with the highly voluminous genomic data.

This action relates to the potential creation of a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium for genomic data (Genome EDIC) and supports the activities related to operating the 1+MG data infrastructure established with the support of Digital Europe under Work Programme 2021-2022 (GDI project), including its alignment with the requirements, technical specifications, and processes established by the EHDS Regulation to ensure a smooth functioning within the HealthData@EU infrastructure. As part of the 1+MG initiative implementation, this action builds on the outputs and results of the 1+MG implementing projects, and will establish a collaboration agreement with the Genome of Europe (GoE project, supported under Digital Europe Work Programme 2022-2023), to contribute ensuring safe storage and processing capacity for the European reference genome data within the 1+MG data infrastructure.

Scope:

This action supports the acquisition and set-up of a secure federated data storage and processing capacity for the 1+MG data infrastructure, which is expected to be operated by the relevant EDIC. It should include “hot storage” working in synergy with secure processing environments aligned with the EHDS requirements, such as compliance checks for secure processing environments and detached long-term storage for curated data made available to the 1+MG by the data providers, including the Genome of Europe dataset. The data storage capacity should be designed based on an agreed data storage optimisation strategy, and balancing between storage costs and data depth/breadth/versioning while considering the most appropriate data storage architecture, technology and legal aspects, and ensuring scalability.

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2026-10-08

FLASH INFORMATION ON THE CALL RESULTS (FLASH CALL INFO)

Call for proposals: DIGITAL-2026-AI-09

Published: 09/10/2025 Deadline: 3/3/2026

Total budget for the call: EUR 60 200 000

The Commission has now completed the evaluation of the proposals submitted to the above-mentioned call.

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-VIRTUAL-TESTBEDS-STEP

Number of proposals submitted: 6

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 4

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 32 763 475.46

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-SOLUTIONS-CANCER-STEP

Number of proposals submitted: 4

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 3

Number of above-threshold proposals: 1

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 12 285 268

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-GENAI-PA

Number of proposals submitted: 36

Number of inadmissible proposals: 2

Number of ineligible proposals: 6

Number of above-threshold proposals: 14

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 25 069 141.26

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-ECAVA

Number of proposals submitted: 2

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 2

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 1 998 202.53

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-AUTOMOTIVE

Number of proposals submitted: 1

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 1

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 2 622 395.6

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-DS-HEALTH-TOOL

Number of proposals submitted: 4

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 1

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 4 997 612.09

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-DS-HEALTH-STORAGE

Number of proposals submitted: 3

Number of inadmissible proposals: 2

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 1

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 17 499 999.8

It is expected that the first grant agreements will be signed by 15/10/2026

Please note that the number of proposals that can finally be funded will depend on the finally available budget and the formal selection by the Commission.

For further details please see the DIGITAL Europe Programme

2026-10-08

Call DIGITAL-2026-AI-09 has closed on 03/03/2026.

56 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-VIRTUAL-TESTBEDS-STEP – 6 proposals

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-SOLUTIONS-CANCER-STEP - 4 proposals

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-GENAI-PA - 36 proposals

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-ECAVA - 2 proposals

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-DS-HEALTH-TOOL - 4 proposals

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-DS-HEALTH-STORAGE - 3 proposals

DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-AUTOMOTIVE - 1 proposal

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated end of June 2026.

2026-10-08
The submission session is now available for: DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-DS-HEALTH-TOOL, DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-DS-HEALTH-STORAGE, DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-GENAI-PA, DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-VIRTUAL-TESTBEDS-STEP, DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-SOLUTIONS-CANCER-STEP, DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-ECAVA, DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-AUTOMOTIVE
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call topic details
Call status: Closed
Opening date: 2025-11-04 (11 months ago)
Closing date: 2026-03-03 (7 months ago)
Procedure: single-stage

Budget: 17,500,000
Expected grants: 1
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DIGITAL-2026-AI-09

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RELATED POLICY
Added 3 months ago by Daniela Hackl
PolicyBriefing_European Data Strategy_updated.pdf (136.22 KB)
The topic directly supports the European Data Strategy and European Health Data Space (EHDS) by enhancing genomic data infrastructure, ensuring interoperability, and enabling secure, cross-border data sharing for research and healthcare.
RELATED POLICY
Added 4 months ago by Daniela Hackl
PolicyBriefing_Data_Governance_Act_updated.pdf (128.48 KB)
All actions of the topic must comply with the rules and mechanisms imposed by the Data Governance Act that shape a trustworthy and secure data-sharing environment.
Related policy
Added 10 months ago by Patricia
PolicyBriefing_EHDS_updated.pdf (203.45 KB)
Infrastructure needs to be aligned with the European Health Data Space (EHDS)
Work Programme info
Added 10 months ago by Daniela Hackl
DEP_LF_INFOSHEET_Restricted calls and other security issues in DEP.pdf (161.2 KB)
RESTRICTED topic (Art. 12.6 Digital Europe Programme Regulation)

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Nov 17 2025

Info Day on digital health topics under DEP - Call 9

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17 Nov 2025 10:00 Online

This online info session will provide participants with information on the new calls for proposals related to digital health.

  • Data ingestion capacities and data services for the European Genomic Data Infrastructure in the European Health Data Space: data tools (DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-DS-HEALTH-TOOLS)

  • Data ingestion capacities and data services for the European Genomic Data Infrastructure in the European Health Data Space: data storage and processing capacity (DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-DS-HEALTH-STORAGE)

  • Deployment of cutting-edge multi-modal AI-based solutions in medical imaging (DIGITAL-2026-AI-09-AI-SOLUTIONS-CANCER-STEP)

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Outcome expected · 03 Aug 2026 (2 months ago)

Next: Grant agreement signed, 3 weeks from now (03 Nov 2026, estimated)

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Work programme published

28 Oct 2025

Call published

28 Oct 2025

Call opens

04 Nov 2025

Call closes

03 Mar 2026

Outcome expected

03 Aug 2026 · est.

Grant agreement signed

03 Nov 2026 · est.

Preparation Open for submission Evaluation Grant preparation Not yet reached

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    28 Oct 2025 · 11 months ago

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  2. Call published

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  3. Call opens

    04 Nov 2025 · 11 months ago

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  4. Call closes

    03 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago

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  5. Outcome expected Estimated

    03 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago

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  6. Grant agreement signed Estimated

    03 Nov 2026 · 3 weeks from now

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