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  The Data Portability & Services Incubator is preparing the launch of its third and last open call that will empower internet innovators developing solutions in the Data Portability field. In order to collect the most important research questions and challenges w.r.t. the topic of Data Portability, a survey has been prepared. The goal of this survey is to revisit the identified data portability subdomains and determine a potential new subdomain for the next open call. You are invited to contribute with your background and expertise by completing the survey, which should not take more than 5 minutes. Your inputs are much appreciated! Link to survey: https://form.123formbuilder.com/5970553/

The second DAPSI Open Call was open between the 20th of November 2020 and the 21st of January 2021. A total of 176 applications were submitted representing 66% of the number of applications started. NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS FINALISED OR NOT SUBMITTED Profile of applicants Applicants were asked whether they were applying as a group of individual(s) and organization(s), as a team, as a consortium, as a natural person or as a legal entity. Out of the 176 proposals, 70% (123 applications) were submitted by single legal entities, 19% (33 applications) by a groups of organizations (consortia), 5% (8 applications) by groups of individual(s) and organization(s), 3% (6 applications) by groups of individuals (teams) , and another 3% (6 applications) by single individuals (natural persons). PROFILE OF APPLICANTS Countries The second Open Call received proposals from 39 different countries. With a predominance of German (39), French (30), British (21), Romanian (16) and Italian (15) applications, followed by applications from Spain, Netherlands, Portugal, Finland, Greece, Estonia or Switzerland among others. A large number of countries were covered thanks to the communication and dissemination efforts in getting participants from all eligible countries. NUMBER OF APPLICANTS PER COUNTRY DAPSI challenges selected In this second Open Call, DAPSI allowed for applications within 3 established challenges or any other challenge within the data portability landscape. Applicants were able to select between Data Compatibility & Interoperability, Service Portability, Security & Privacy or Other. The distribution of applications received among the different challenges can be seen in the figure below, which shows Data Compatibility & Interoperability as the challenge chosen by the majority of applicants (69%), followed by Security & Privacy (57%), Service Portability (55%) and finally Other (10%). Note, the applicants could select multiple challenges. APPLICATIONS PER CHALLENGE Submission evolution The chart below shows the evolution of applications started and submitted along time, in which 56% of the submissions...

As we celebrate the one year anniversary of the Data Portability & Services Incubator, we spoke with Sara Mateo, the project coordinator, about the past, present, and future for DAPSI. Sara Mateo, DAPSI Coordinator What is your assessment of this first year of the project? Definitely, it has been a special year for everybody. After the first months of project, mainly spent in preparatory actions, the COVID-19 pandemic arrived.All countries worldwide have suffered disruptions and face challenges at health, economic and social level. There is a complicate horizon and uncertainty, mainly for small companies. Nevertheless, moments of adversity are also moments of opportunity. Thus, I believe that the lockdown was somehow a time for innovators to think about new projects and dedicate time to make them real. This could be one of the key ingredients for the high participation in our 1st open call. Data Portability and Services awoke the interest of the researchers and innovators, exceeding our expectations in terms of call participation. We received 182 applications. A hard and intense process of selection resulted into 11 winning proposals with more than 1.3M€ of funding committed to support them. We officially started the incubation programme with our innovators in September. Let’s see the interesting results they deliver in the coming months! What are the lessons learnt and main achievements so far? One of the main insights after this first year and the first call is that Data Portability is a topic of huge interest in Europe. The large community of followers on twitter (with +1.000) prove it, as well as, of course, the results of the 1st open call. We have also learnt that remote work is possible. We have managed to adjust our DAPSI programme towards a 100% virtual format with successful results. Some sessions were designed to be physical, but the current...

DPella is part of the first and very selective batch of projects that entered the DAPSI programme. We spoke with Alejandro Russo, DPella project coordinator, to learn more about them, their technology and ambition. Can you tell us about yourself and your team? The DPella team is composed of Marco, Carola, and me. Marco and I are professors in computer science with expertise in building security solutions for data privacy. I am located at the Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden – where I lead a team of four brilliant Ph.D. students -, while Marco is located at Boston University, USA. I have known Marco since my first steps as a Ph.D. student 15 years ago!, but it was in 2018 that we got the chance to start working together – a collaboration that led us to the decision of founding DPella. Our team is not all about pointy-hats academics, but also have an entrepreneur onboard: Carola, who was born in a family of Argentinian entrepreneurs. I have known Carola for my whole life. She is an architect who is passionate about developing ideas around software – a passion that I witnessed in the nine years that she has been running her own software company. I could not be happier with the team: we are diverse, have different backgrounds, and are 100% intellectually honest with each other. Where does your passion for data privacy come from? I have been always passionate about data privacy. It is something that originated during my early high school years during the 90s. Back then, I got introduced to the (pre-Internet) world of BBSes, which were a great source of knowledge about security vulnerabilities and techniques to create secure software. During those years, I found it fascinating to learn how to discover private information that no one...

The first DAPSI Open Call for data and service portability innovators was open between the 20th of February and the 22nd of April 2020. A total of 182 applications were submitted accounting for 59% of the number of applications started. OPEN CALL RESULTS: FINALIZED OR IN PROGRESS Profile of applicants Applicants were asked whether they were applying as a group of individual(s) and organization(s), as a team, as a consortium, as a natural person or as a legal entity. Out of the 182 proposals, 71% (130 applications) were submitted by single legal entities, 10% (19 applications) by a group of individuals (teams), another 10% (18 applicants) by a group of organizations (consortiums), 6% (10 proposals) by groups of individual(s) and organization(s), and finally, 3% (5 applications) by single individuals (natural persons). PROFILE OF APPLICANTS Countries The first Open Call received proposals from 33 countries. It is possible to see a predominance of French (39), German (24), Romanian (23), Spanish (18) and British (15) applications, followed by applications from Portugal, Netherlands, Greece, Finland, Belgium or Italy among others. A large number of countries were covered thanks to the communication and dissemination efforts in getting participants from all the eligible countries. COUNTRY OF APPLICANTS DAPSI challenges selected In this first Open Call, DAPSI allowed for applicationswithin 3 established challenges. Applicants were able to select between DataCompatibility & Interoperability, Data transparency, Security & Privacyand Other. The distribution of applications received among the differentchallenges can be seen in the figure below, which shows Data Compatibility& Interoperability as the challenge chosen by the majority of applicants(46%), followed by Security & Privacy (28%), Data Transparency (22%) andfinally Other (4%). SELECTION OF DAPSI CHALLENGES Submission evolution The graph below demonstrates the first Open Call submissions curve along time, in which approximately 46% of the submissions were made in the...