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The Digital Europe programme (DIGITAL) 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. DIGITAL is structured around different special objectives.
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Digital Europe AI Continent Advanced Digital Skills Deployment: Best use of technologies
The following call topics under the Digital Europe programme are now open for submission: Apply AI: Piloting AI-based image screening in medical centres Digital solutions for regulatory compliance through data Advanced Digital Skills for AI Uptake in Health EdTech Accelerator Digital Skills and Jobs Platform: The National Coalitions for Digi... read more
Health Civil Security Digital, Industry & Space Agro-Food, Environment
The European Innovation Council has launched a call to recruit independent experts of diverse innovative defence and dual-use technologies (as eg. maritime, medical, drones, financial expertise, ..). It is important for the EIC to have a solid batch of experts with a balanced national diversity. Note that, as a requirement and due to security sens... read more
Digital Europe AI Continent Advanced Digital Skills Deployment: Best use of technologies
The European Commission has published a new round of calls under the Digital Europe programme. The submission period for the following call topics will open on 21 April 2026: Apply AI: Piloting AI-based image screening in medical centres Digital solutions for regulatory compliance through data Advanced Digital Skills for AI Uptake in Health... read more
Digital Europe AI Continent Advanced Digital Skills Deployment: Best use of technologies
The European Commission has amended the 2025-2027 Digital Europe main work programme. The amendment ("March 2026") can be found on the Commission website alongside the work programme. According to the amendment, the following call topics are part of the next round of calls: Digital solutions for regulatory compliance through data Apply AI: Pil... 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.
