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:
Health AI, data & cloud Deployment: Best use of technologies
The European Commission has published a call for tender (procurement) under the Digital Europe programma for a Platform for Advanced Virtual Human Twin (VHT) Models. The main objective of this action is to develop a distributed platform making available to users a federated repository of VHTs related resources, a combined set of op... read more
Health Digital Europe Deployment: Best use of technologies
Digital Health Uptake (DHU), an EU-funded project under the Digital Europe Programme, is offering financial support to third parties to support the implementation of technical assistance and training activities aimed at enabling training users to apply and make use of key methods and tools that support digital health implementation and scale u... read more
Deployment: Best use of technologies
The Interoperable Europe Act entered into force on 11 April 2024. It aims to better connect public services for people and businesses by facilitating cross-border data exchange and accelerate the digital transformation of the public sector. The Act is essential to reaching the objectives of the EU's digital decade, such as having 100% of key publi... read more
Deployment: Best use of technologies
The publication and opening of call DIGITAL-2024-BESTUSE-TECH-06 (1 topic: European Digital Identity and Trust Ecosystem (Standards and Sample Implementation), initially announced to open on 29 February 2024 has been delayed. We will inform you as soon as there is news regarding the new timing. read more
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Autoship is, as the name suggests, an acronym for autonomous ship. Just like with self-driving cars, the possibilities of an unmanned boat seem endless. It can create more efficient freight transport, around the clock deliveries and these are just a few of the examples. The project has two societal challenges.
At first, De Vlaamse Waterweg was a bit hesitant as their experience with FP7 or Horizon 2020 projects was limited and they had not been very successful up until then. The fact that they were already doing basic research on the topic of autonomous boats, and the administrative help of NCP FLanders helped De Vlaamse waterweg to cross the line and get involved.