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Specific Objective 5 – Deployment and Accelerating the Best Use of Technologies promotes the roll-out and best use of digital capacities, prioritising areas such as the support of SMEs and public authorities in their digital transformation.
Under the 2025-2027 main work programme, the following aspects will be covered:
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AI Continent Advanced Digital Skills Deployment: Best use of technologies European Digital Innovation Hubs
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The European Commission has recently published the first amendment to the Digital Europe Main Work Programme 2025-2027, taking into account the most recent political priorities of the Commission. Among the main changes, the programme will now contribute to the landmark AI Gigafactories initiative, set to accelerate the development of cutting... read more
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The next round of Digital Europe calls has been published on the Funding & Tenders Portal of the European Commission. This next round comprises 14 call topics in total, covering the subdomains AI, data & cloud (see call topics here and here) Advanced Digital Skills Deployment European Digital Innovation Hubs The calls will o... 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.