DIGITAL EUROPE – Advanced Digital Skills – 2026

Objectives

• To expand the offer of education and training in Artificial Intelligence in health jointly designed between higher education and training institutions, research organisations and industry
• To ensure the establishment of new National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs and national platforms in Member States and DIGITAL associated countries that do not have one yet
• To assist European EdTech startups and SMEs in transforming concepts for educational solutions into matured and fully tested applications and solutions

Among financed actions

• Training
• Web development
• Services, Content and Community-related activities
• Post-editing and localisation of content

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (list of participating countries)
• Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register before submitting the proposal
• A consortium composed of
  • DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-DIGITAL-HEALTH-STEP: minimum 4 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from at least 4 different eligible countrie must be constituted
  • DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-NATIONAL-COALITIONS: minimum 5 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from at least 4 different eligible countries of which minimum 4 applicants must be National Coalitions funded under CEF-TC-2019-2, CEF-TC-2020-2 or DIGITAL-2024-ADVANCED-DIGITAL-06-SKILLS must be constituted
  • DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-EDTECH: minimum 4 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from at least 4 different eligible countries must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 24 and 48 months

Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment.

• Contact: Click here

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• Executive Agency website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 12.5 million euros
• Budget per topic:
  • DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-DIGITAL-HEALTH-STEP: 7.8 million euros
  • DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-NATIONAL-COALITIONS: 2 million euros
  • DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-EDTECH: 2.7 million euros
• Amount of the grant:
  • DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-DIGITAL-HEALTH-STEP: maximum 3.9 million euros
  • DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-NATIONAL-COALITIONS: maximum 2 million euros
  • DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-EDTECH: maximum 2.7 million euros

The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

• Funding rate:
  •  DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-DIGITAL-HEALTH-STEP: 50% of the total eligible costs
    • This grant is a lump sum grant.
  • DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-NATIONAL-COALITIONS: 100% of the total eligible costs
  • DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-EDTECH: 100% of the total eligible costs