DIGITAL EUROPE – Accelerating the best use of technologies – 2024

Objectives

• To address one of the key areas in which the Digital Europe Programme supports critical EU capacity building through large scale deployments
• To represent a high level of engagement from various Member States and a long-term sustainability for the project implemented
• To pool EU, national and/or private resources to achieve progress that no Member State could do on its own
• To reduce digital divides within and between Member States
• To prove a clear EU added value through their impact that no single entity nor Member State could achieve on its own
• To contribute to bridge the gap between large scale piloting and full deployment
• To support the consolidation of an interconnected, interoperable, and secure Single Market, considering to the extent possible the interests of public and private sectors
• To the extent possible, support interoperability of data and digital infrastructure amongst the MCPs. Digital infrastructure might include data, high-performance computing, quantum computing, AI and connectivity

Among financed activities

• Deployment and use of common EU digital infrastructures, including the underlying technologies, blueprint architecture, standards, tools and applications
• Deployment and use of advanced EU wide services targeting their large-scale adoption including through industry and/or SMEs, and/or public administrations
• Use of computing and processing capacities
• Data generation, collection, aggregation and sharing
• Creation, optimization of large data models
• Normalisation and certification of services, digital infrastructures and/or data models
• Deployment of trustworthy AI capacities and resources
• Dissemination and exploitation of project results
• Capacity building, including on legal and competitiveness matters

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
  • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (Click here)
• Be a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) or another MCP implementation mechanism listed in the DDPP Decision, including a consortium which includes at least three independent entities from three different Member States

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 36 months
• To find your National Contact Point : Click here

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 25 million euro
• Amount of the grant: no limit
• Funding rate: up to 50% of the total eligible costs