DIGITAL EUROPE – Advanced Digital Skills – 2024

Objectives

• To support excellence in higher education institutions, making them world leaders in training the digital specialists of the future
• To increase the capacity of the educational offer in the area of advanced digital skills
• To develop a dynamic digital educational ecosystems where higher education institutions as well as innovative partners from industry and research work together to attract and retain the best talents worldwide

Priorities

• Priority 1 : Design and delivery of programme(s) and self-standing module(s) that provide students with the necessary theoretical and practical advanced digital skills and knowledge to design, deploy and use current and future generation of digital technologies and applications
• Priority 2: Attracting qualified teaching staff and students
• Priority 3: Upgrading digital solutions, equipment and infrastructure, with a special focus on interoperability of IT systems across participating higher education institutions
  Priority 4: Establishing structural and sustainable partnerships between the members of the consortium

Among financed activities

• Programme(s) to build up advanced digital skills in one of the following key digital areas: virtual worlds; edge computing; quantum computing; photonics; robotics and automatization
• Interdisciplinary programme(s), targeting at the acquisition of advanced green digital skills related to specific technologies such as AI, data analytics, extended reality, robotics, cloud computing, internet of things and machine learning in the following specific sectors related to the green transition : agriculture; transport; renewable energy; waste management
• Interdisciplinary programme(s), targeting at the acquisition of advanced digital skills for government and public sector

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)
• A consortium composed of at least 6 entities, established in at least 4 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme must be constituted

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 48 months
• To find your National Contact Point : 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: 55 million euro
• Amount of the grant: up to 10 million euro
• Funding rate: up to 50% of the total eligible costs