Digital Europe Introduction
The Digital Europe programme (DIGITAL) with a budget of € 8.1 billion aims to support the digital transition in the EU by fostering the uptake of digital technologies by businesses, citizens and public administration and enhancing digital skills of the workforce.

Strategic objectives

Digital Europe funds projects in five key capacity areas (strategic objectives):

  • Supercomputing (€2.0 bn): deployment of world-class exascale and post-exascale supercomputing capacities;
  • AI Continent (€ 1.7 bn): setting up EU-wide sectoral data spaces based on a cloud-to-edge federated infrastructure, promotion of testing and adoption of AI-based solutions, supporting the implementation of EU legislation;
  • Cybersecurity (€ 1.4 bn): building up advanced cybersecurity capabilities, promoting the sharing of best practices, ensuring wide deployment of cybersecurity solutions, supporting the implementation of EU legislation;
  • Advanced digital skills (€ 0.5 bn): increasing the education offer and training in key digital technologies and digital skills for non-ICT sectors, and support collaboration between higher education institutions and the private sector;
  • Accelerating best use of technologies (€ 1.0 bn): establishment of a network of European Digital Innovation Hubs supporting the digital transformation of European public and private organisations and deployment of high-impact projects such as blockchain capacities or the digital transformation of public administration and services.
  • Semiconductors (€ 1.6 bn): partial implementation of the Chips for Europe initiative under the EU Chips Act

With its variety of topics the programme addresses a wide range of stakeholders: SMEs, higher education institutions, research centres, public authorities, large companies etc.

The Digital Europe Programme complements other EU programmes, such as the Horizon Europe programme for research and innovation, and the Connecting Europe Facility for digital infrastructure, the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Structural funds.

 

Your NCP contact for this programme

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Marie Timmermann

marie.timmermann@fwo.be

+32 2 550 15 59

Your PC contact for this programme

Find the contact info on the site of WEWIS

The National Contact Points (NCPs) provide support, guidance, and practical information to potential applicants, helping them navigate funding opportunities and application processes.

The Programme Committee (PC) members represent their country in decision-making about the work programmes, evaluate implementation, and provide strategic input on priorities and calls.

 

Testimonial

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ERC grants for UGent professor Lieven Eeckhout

Professor Lieven Eeckhout’s main research interests include computer architecture and the hardware/software interface with a specific emphasis on performance evaluation and modeling, and dynamic resource management.

Professor Eeckhout is the recipient of a European Research Council (ERC) Starting grant, Advanced grant and three Proof of Concept grants. Two of his former PhD students founded in 2013 CoScale, a spin-off in data center monitoring, which was acquired by New Relic.