DIGITAL EUROPE – Advanced Digital Skills – 2025

Objectives

• To strengthen the advanced digital skills talent pool in Europe
• To develop, deploy, and use cutting-edge digital technologies and infrastructures

Priorities

• Priority 1: To focus on establishing sectoral digital skills academies in the strategic areas of
  Quantum Technologies, AI and Generative AI (‘GenAI’), Virtual Worlds

Among financed actions

• Designing and delivering education and training programmes, including higher education curricula, self-standing training modules, and on-the-job training
• Building ecosystems by fostering collaboration among academia, training institutions, industry, and research
• Establishing mechanisms to measure progress in addressing skills gaps

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
  • minimum 5 entities from at least 3 different eligible countries which, complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (DIGITAL-2025-SKILLS-08-QUANTUM-ACADEMY-STEP)
  • minimum 6 entities from at least 3 different eligible countries, which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (DIGITAL-2025-SKILLS-08-GENAI-ACADEMY-STEP)
  • minimum 6 entities from at least 4 different eligible countries, which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (DIGITAL-2025-SKILLS-08-VIRTUAL-WORLDS-ACADEMY-STEP)

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: 48 months
• Contact: Click here

Useful

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

• Total budget of the call: 27.000.000 euros
• Budget per topic:
  • DIGITAL-2025-SKILLS-08-QUANTUMACADEMY-STEP: 10.000.000 euros
  • DIGITAL-2025-SKILLS-08-GENAIACADEMY-STEP: 7.000.000 euros
  • DIGITAL-2025-SKILLS-08-VIRTUALWORLDS-ACADEMY-STEP: 10.000.000 euros
• Amount of the grant: This is a lump sum grant, with the maximum grant amount per project corresponding to the budget per topic mentioned above
• Funding rate: up to 50% of the total eligible costs