Digital Europe Programme

Digital Europe Programme

General Aspects

Digital Europe 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. It funds projects in a broad range of topics and addresses a large group of different stakeholders such as SMEs, higher education and research institutions, public administrations and companies.

Your NCP contact

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Marie Timmermann

marie.timmermann@fwo.be

+32 2 550 15 59

Your PC contact

Contact details on the site of WEWIS

The National Contact Points (NCPs) provide support, guidance, and practical information to potential applicants, helping them navigate funding opportunities and application processes.

The Programme Committee (PC) members represent their country in decision-making about the work programmes, evaluate implementation, and provide strategic input on priorities and calls.

Specific Objective 1

High Performance Computing

DIGITAL aims to build up the EU’s supercomputing and data processing capacities, reaching extremely high computational power that are able to solve hugely complex and demanding problems.

Specific Objective 2

AI Continent

Unleashing the potential of data through innovative secure and energy efficient cloud to edge technology and trustful AI technologies is of strategical importance for Europe.

Specific Objective 3

Cybersecurity

The European Union aims to promote cyber resilience, safeguarding communication and data and keeping online society and economy secure.

Specific Objective 4

Advanced digital skills

The European Commission aims to tackle the digital skills gap and promote projects and strategies to improve the level of digital skills in Europe.

Specific Objective 6

Semiconductors

Digital Europe finances part of the Chips for Europe Initiative, aiming at large-scale technological capacity building and innovation in the semiconductor sector.

European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs)

European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs) will function as one-stop shops that help companies dynamically respond to the digital challenges and become more competitive.

NCP Support

DEP4ALL+ - Digital Europe NCP Network

DEP4ALL – The NCP Network for the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) is a project funded by Digital Europe with the aim to provide resources, training, and networking opportunities for both (potential) applicants and Digital Europe NCPs.

Testimonial

Autoship - a new and durable way of freight transport

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.