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Horizon Cloud – The Forum for Strategy Focused Cloud Stakeholders

Project description

Unlocking the potential of cloud computing

New cloud technologies, services and solutions are constantly emerging, furthering the creation of a digital single market in Europe. However, this market is currently fragmented and defined by the absence of a cloud culture. The EU-funded H-CLOUD project aims to address this problem by setting up a sustainable forum of stakeholders to establish a common vision for the future of cloud computing in Europe. The forum will be a live community of organisations and individuals whose goal will be to address challenges and opportunities arising at the research, technological, policy, standardisation and organisational levels. The project will help unlock the potential of cloud computing and support the creation of a digital single market.

Objective

Almost everyday we witness the rise of new cloud technologies, services and solutions. Despite the existing gap, with the US giants the European Cloud Community (ECC) is growing and leading the creation of Single Digital Market in Europe. Still, to strength such market, its fragmentation needs to be reduced. Beyond that, European market is largely dominated by SME that are struggling to adopt cloud services (beyond email and cloud storage) to innovate their business due to the lack of “cloud-culture” and trust toward cloud services. European Commission is leading a number of key actions (e.g. GDPR) to overcome these and other barriers, but it requires the help and the support of the ECC, in terms of a common technology vision, policies and recommendations.
While strengthening the Digital Market is beyond the capabilities of European research funding programmes, a clear mandate is to lead the definition of the Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda for Cloud Computing that should provide recommendations and strategies to guide the future of European Cloud services and their market regulations.
H-Cloud addresses this challenge by creating a sustainable forum of stakeholders representing the Cloud Computing research, industry and users with the aim to define a common vision for the future of Cloud Computing in Europe.
Based on the outcomes of previous actions, H-Cloud will establish the ECC forum as a live community of organisations and individuals that will collaborate around different themes with the aim of addressing challenges and opportunities at research, technological, policy, standardisation and organisational level. The creation of a common vision on Cloud Computing, will be the key to unlock the potential of Cloud Computing to support the creation of a Digital Single Market. Through an open governance model and valuable incentives, H-Cloud will ensure that ECC Forum will outlast the project duration, becoming a valuable asset of the whole ECC.

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CSA - Coordination and support action

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(opens in new window) H2020-ICT-2018-20

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Coordinator

MARTEL GMBH
Net EU contribution

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€ 707 625,00
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UBERLANDSTRASSE 111
8600 Dubendorf
Switzerland

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SME

The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.

Yes
Region
Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Zürich Zürich
Activity type
Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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€ 707 625,00

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