Digital Europe funds projects in five key capacity areas (strategic objectives):
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.
The overall objectives, scope, outcomes and deliverables as well as budget allocations, for each topic are described in different work programmes:
All work programmes are available at this link.
Detailed descriptions of the different call topics can be found in the call documents once the calls are published on the Funding & Tenders Portal.
The legal and financial rules for Digital Europe resemble in many aspects those of other funding programmes such as Horizon Europe. However, there are some important difference that need to be taken into account, such as regards e.g. international collaboration and security restrictions. Information on the legal and financial rules can be found on our L&F overview page and in our infosheets.
Digital Europe AI, data & cloud Advanced Digital Skills Deployment: Best use of technologies
The upcoming calls from the Digital Europe Main Work Programme have been published on the Funding & Tenders Portal of the European Commission. The following 10 call topics are expected to open for submission on 15 April 2025, deadline to submit proposals will be 2 September 2025: AI, data & cloud Apply AI: GenAI for the public ad... read more
Digital Europe AI, data & cloud Advanced Digital Skills Deployment: Best use of technologies
The European Commission has published today the Digital Europe Main Work Programme 2025-2027, detailing the plans for remaining 3 years of the current programme period. The main work programme focuses on the Specific Objectives AI, data & cloud, Advanced Digital Skills and Deployment-Accelerating the best use of technologies. The work program... read more
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The ROOT project obtained funding under Horizon 2020 topic ‘EGNSS applications fostering societal resilience and protecting the environment’. The project, which ran from November 2020 to July 2022, aimed to demonstrate the benefit of Galileo OSNMA signal to increase the robustness of critical telecom infrastructures.
The Flanders-based company Septentrio contributed substantially to completing this objective together with the other ROOT partners. The results of the project partially close a gap in the security of telecommunication networks dependent on satellite-derived time, with indirect benefits in curbing illegal attempts to disrupt network services.