GovTech Incubator

Topic description

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Outcomes and deliverables

This topic will foster the deployment of new digital services, promoting innovative digital government solutions and putting in place the right mechanism to ensure Interoperability by default.

Lessons learnt from the resulting projects (i.e. solutions, training programmes and concepts developed) will be available for sharing and reuse across the EU, and may be scaled up through the Common Services Platform.

The GovTech incubator aims to ensure cross-border collaboration between digitalisation agencies in the different Member States and countries associated to the Programme, involving also GovTech actors from the private sector and academia.

The funded activities will make use of the Common Services Platform where applicable.

The long-term cooperation between the Commission and the selected consortium will be formalised within a Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA)^[1] to provide an environment to ensure continuous support to experimentation for the Public Sector.

The GovTech Incubator should allow to identify after 2 years, at least 2 pilot projects testing new digital technologies supporting existing or new public services that could lead to reusable solutions, Large Scale Pilots or new components made available through the Common Service Platform.

[1]This agreement shall specify the common objectives, the nature of actions planned and the general rights and obligations of each party. The Framework Partnership Agreement will involve Member States’ Public Sector Digitalisation agencies in a joint GovTech experimentation mechanism. Within the FPA, the Commission intends to award Specific Grants to support the activities foreseen in the action plan and any additional activities the Commission might consider necessary. The GovTech Incubator should provide basic activities to engage with the GovTech Community beyond the Consortium.