DICE ALLIANCE

Data, Innovation, Compliance, Ethics

Strengthening Europe’s data sovereignty through strategic collaboration

By working closely with like-minded projects, CERTAIN enhances its mission to provide comprehensive guidelines and cutting-edge tools across the data and AI value chain, ensuring compliance, assessing data quality, measuring bias, and safeguarding privacy to empower a secure and sovereign European data economy.

CERTAIN is proud to be part of the DICE Alliance, a strategic partnership uniting four leading European Horizon Europe projects: DataPACT, ACHILLES, CERTAIN, and ACCOMPLISH. Launched to accelerate the development of trustworthy, secure, and efficient data ecosystems, the alliance fosters collaboration on regulatory compliance, data sovereignty, privacy, and fairness in AI. Through shared use cases, harmonised technical frameworks, and coordinated engagement with regulators and industry, the DICE Alliance is driving interoperable solutions that support the EU’s Digital Decade ambitions and operationalize key policies such as the Data Governance Act and the Data Act.

Horizon Europe Call

CERTAIN was funded under Horizon European Call HORIZON-CL4-2024-DATA-01-01: AI-driven data operations and compliance technologies (AI, data and robotics partnership).

The projects funded under this call are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

To enable companies and public sector to easily comply with existing and emerging regulation (e.g. GDPR, Data Governance Act, Data Act, Artificial Intelligence Act) and create value on data assets that they possess or that they acquire from the market, and to allow citizens to feel more confident that data-driven systems treat them in a fair, unbiased and compliant way and respect their privacy/anonymity and other rights, and keep track of the use of personal data in a world where “everything” moves online.
Define, quantify and measure bias in data sets (especially those used for AI development).
Shorten the time-to-market and reduce development costs of compliant data solutions
Contribute to open, trusted and federated Common European data spaces.
Quantify and reduce the environmental footprint of data operations which will contribute to the Green Deal target “no net emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050”.

Three other projects were funded under the same call, with whom CERTAIN has close ties and active synergies.

DataPACT

DataPACT is a Horizon Europe-funded project launched in 2025, uniting 18 partners from 16 countries, including universities, research centers, SMEs, public organizations, and large enterprises. Coordinated by SINTEF AS, it integrates compliance, ethics, and sustainability into data and AI pipelines. DataPACT develops a Compliance Toolbox, Framework, and Pipeline Toolbox to ensure regulatory adherence. The project is validated through seven use cases in healthcare, smart cities, law enforcement, media, CRM, manufacturing, and public data, fostering responsible AI adoption in Europe.

ACHILLES

ACHILLES aims to create an efficient, compliant, and ethical AI ecosystem, addressing challenges related to privacy, security, fairness, and transparency. The project proposes an terative development cycle inspired by clinical trials, consisting of four modules focused on human-centric, data-centric, model-centric, and deployment-centric strategies.This approach seeks to enhance the performance and reliability of AI systems while ensuring compliance with legal and ethical standards. A key innovation is the development of a machine learning-driven Integrated Development Environment (IDE), which will streamline the integration between modules and promote the creation of responsible AI solutions.

ACCOMPLISH

ACCOMPLISH (Horizon Europe, Jan 2025–Jun 2028) aims to develop an AI-driven framework and platform to automate, simplify, and ensure traceability of regulatory compliance across data and AI workflows. Covering GDPR, the AI Act, and the Data Act, it introduces a “Compliance Digital Passport” and offers tailored modules for sectors such as energy, automotive, robotics, and aviation.

Press Release

Leading European Projects Join Forces to Strengthen Data Sovereignty and Secure Data Sharing Across Europe

Four pioneering European-funded research and innovation projects – DataPACT, ACHILLES, CERTAIN, and ACCOMPLISH – have launched the DICE Alliance (short for Data, Innovation, Compliance, Ethics) to accelerate progress in developing trustworthy, secure, and efficient data ecosystems across Europe.