Ensuring a wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society will contribute to reaching the EU’s ambition of the twin digital and green transition.
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About the programme
The roll-out and best use of digital capacities focuses on priority areas such as the Green Deal, support to SMEs and public authorities in their digital transformation and will also provide resources to those activities started in previous programmes, for which the continuations of funding is essential not to disrupt the services provided.
Areas of activities include:
Digital, Industry & Space AI, data & cloud Deployment: Best use of technologies
The OpenVerse project aims at integrating knowledge, experts and actors around the creation of inclusive, open and ethically responsible European Virtual Worlds. This is done in alignment with the European Commission’s strategy on Web 4.0 and Virtual Worlds. As part its work, OpenVerse is conducting a landscaping exercise of initiatives... read more
Deployment: Best use of technologies
The European Blockchain Sandbox has opened its third round of calls for innovative use cases involving Distributed Ledger Technologies. Public entities and private sector companies in the European Economic Area, including start up and scale-ups, can now apply for the third cohort of the European Blockchain Sandbox with innovative use case proj... read more
Deployment: Best use of technologies
The European Commission (DG CONNECT) has launched the following procurement procedure: Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Platform – EU Coordination (EC-CNECT/LUX/2024/OP/0097) The EU-funded Better Internet for Kids portal (at https://better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu) and the associated coordination tasks are the main subject of th... read more
Digital, Industry & Space Cybersecurity Deployment: Best use of technologies
€ 323 million is available for co-funding the deployment of digital connectivity infrastructures. 5G Large scale pilots (large scale 5G stand-alone infrastructure), with a budget of €105 million. Backbone connectivity for Digital Global Gateways (mainly submarine and terrestrial cables), with €128 million for studies and works.... read more
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The Stargate project obtained funding under the special Green Deal call of Horizon 2020, more in particular under the topic of “green ports and airports”. It received the maximum score of the evaluators and was selected out of more than 40 projects. Stargate’s purpose is to prove that sustainable aviation is possible and happening. It focuses on the further decarbonization of the aviation industry, the improvement of local environmental quality and the stimulation of the modal split. Together with a consortium of 21 European partners with a diverse and rich expertise (airports, community partners, knowledge institutions, consultants, local governments, …), Brussels Airports takes the lead as lighthouse airport to develop and implement innovative solutions. Results that prove successful can be deployed at the fellow airports (Toulouse, Budapest, Athens). Over the course of the coming five years, the consortium will exchange knowledge to investigate and realize more than 30 concrete projects.