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DIGITAL EUROPE – Accelerating the best use of technologies – 2024

Digital Europe Programme - Digital Europe programme aims at briding the gap between digital technology research and market deployment.

2024-11-21
25 million euro
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Call synthesis

Call reference DIGITAL-2024-BESTUSE-07
Programme Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)
Institution European Commission
Sectors Culture, Media & Communication Research & Innovation Services to organisations Technology & Digital
Beneficiaries EU & International Organisation Large company (> 250 employees) Research centre & university Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees) State administration & affiliated entities

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Call reference

DIGITAL-2024-BESTUSE-07



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Priorities and funded actions

Objectives

  • To address one of the key areas in which the Digital Europe Programme supports critical EU capacity building through large scale deployments
  • To represent a high level of engagement from various Member States and a long-term sustainability for the project implemented
  • To pool EU, national and/or private resources to achieve progress that no Member State could do on its own
  • To reduce digital divides within and between Member States
  • To prove a clear EU added value through their impact that no single entity nor Member State could achieve on its own
  • To contribute to bridge the gap between large scale piloting and full deployment
  • To support the consolidation of an interconnected, interoperable, and secure Single Market, considering to the extent possible the interests of public and private sectors
  • To the extent possible, support interoperability of data and digital infrastructure amongst the MCPs. Digital infrastructure might include data, high-performance computing, quantum computing, AI and connectivity

Among financed activities

  • Deployment and use of common EU digital infrastructures, including the underlying technologies, blueprint architecture, standards, tools and applications
  • Deployment and use of advanced EU wide services targeting their large-scale adoption including through industry and/or SMEs, and/or public administrations
  • Use of computing and processing capacities
  • Data generation, collection, aggregation and sharing
  • Creation, optimization of large data models
  • Normalisation and certification of services, digital infrastructures and/or data models
  • Deployment of trustworthy AI capacities and resources
  • Dissemination and exploitation of project results
  • Capacity building, including on legal and competitiveness matters

Eligibility

  • Be a legal person
  • Be a public or private entity
  • Be established in one of the eligible countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
    • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (Click here)
  • Be a European Digital Infrastructure Consortium (EDIC) or another MCP implementation mechanism listed in the DDPP Decision, including a consortium which includes at least three independent entities from three different Member States

Additional information

  • Initial duration of the action: 36 months
  • To find your National Contact Point : Click here

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Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 25 million euro
  • Amount of the grant: no limit
  • Funding rate: up to 50% of the total eligible costs