The Digital Europe Programme will provide strategic funding to answer communication, reasearch, security, environmental and health challenges. It aims to accelerate the economic recovery and shape the digital transformation of Europe’s society and economy, bringing benefits to everyone, in particular to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Priorities and funded actions
The Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) is a new EU funding programme focused on bringing digital technology to businesses, citizens and public administrations.
Objectives
- To strengthen and promote Europe’s capacities in key digital technology areas through large-scale deployment;
- To widen the diffusion and uptake of Europe’s key digital technologies, promoting the digital transformation and access to digital technologies.
Specific objectives
- Specific objective 1 – High Performance Computing
- Specific objective 2 – Artificial Intelligence
- Specific objective 3 – Cybersecurity and Trust
- Specific objective 4 – Advanced Digital Skills
- Specific objective 5 – Deployment and Best Use of Digital Capacity and Interroperability
Priorities
- Specific objective 1:
Deploy, coordinate at Union level and operate an integrated demand-oriented and application-driven world-class exascale supercomputing and data infrastructure that shall be easily accessible to public and private users.
- Specific objective 2:
Build up and strengthen core AI capacities and knowledge in the Union, including building up and strengthening quality data resources and corresponding exchange mechanisms, and libraries of algorithms, while guaranteeing a human-centric and inclusive approach that respects Union values.
- Specific objective 3:
Support the building-up and procurement of advanced cybersecurity equipment, tools and data infrastructures.
- Specific objective 4:
Support the development of advanced digital skills in areas covered by the Programme in order to contribute to increasing Europe’s talent pool, bridge the digital divide and foster greater professionalism, especially with regard to high performance and cloud computing, big data analytics, cybersecurity, distributed ledger technologies (e.g. blockchain), quantum technologies, robotics, AI, while taking gender balance into account. In order to tackle skills mismatches and to encourage specialisation in digital technologies and applications
- Specific objective 5:
Support the public sector and areas of public interest, such as health and care, education, judiciary, customs, transport, mobility, energy, environment, cultural and creative sectors, including relevant businesses established within the Union, to effectively deploy and access state-of-the-art digital technologies, such as HPC, AI and cybersecurity.
Contact
Mr J.F. Junger
+32-229-59516
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/activities/digital-programme
Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology > Deputy Director-General in charge of Directorates B-D-F-G-I > Policy Strategy and Outreach > Digital (CNECT.D.HADEA.B.2)
European Commission