DOME - Distributed Open Marketplace for Cloud and Edge Services in Europe

With this aim, the first  call of the Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL-2021-CLOUD-AI-01) pressed for actions to deploy and operate a Marketplace for federated cloud-to-edge based services. The project DOME consortium of 39 members coming from 14 EU Member States, including 11 large enterprises, 24 SMEs, 2 research institutions, 6 non-profit organisations and 2 public bodies was selected and over the course of 36 months starting on 1 January 2023 will: 

 ●

 Deploy the  technical infrastructure of the marketplace platform , with strong customer focus, user-friendliness, and inclusion and equality principles; 

 ●

 Operate the platform  according to security, energy and resource efficiency, data protection, ethical standards and portability requirements; 

 ●

 Ensure the  integration of state-of-the-art identity and access management services  on the marketplace platform to support its operation; 

 ●

 Design a  curation/vetting process for services offered on the marketplace , notably for sector-specific services in regulated sectors (e.g. health, energy, finance…); 

 ●

 Implement  interconnections with similar marketplaces   and service catalogues  that already exist in some Member States; 

 ●

 Enable access, through a single EU portal, to an  online catalogue of existing cloud-to-edge based service offerings  that are  compliant with a pre-defined set of EU rules and requirements  available in the forthcoming  EU Cloud Rulebook ; 

 ●

 Implement a  service brokerage functionality  to enable transactions between providers and users to take place on the Marketplace; and 

 ●

 Ensure a  vendor-neutral technical architecture  and reference framework.