Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Digital Europe Programme is the first EU programme that aims to accelerate the recovery and drive the digital transformation of Europe.
Worth €7.6 billion (in current prices), the Programme is a part of the next long-term EU budget, (the Multiannual Financial Framework), and it covers 2021 to 2027. It will provide funding for projects in five crucial areas: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and ensuring the wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society.
The Programme is fine-tuned to fill the gap between the research of digital technologies and their deployment, and to bring the results of research to the market – for the benefit of Europe’s citizens and businesses, and in particular SMEs. Investments under the Digital Europe programme supports the Union’s twin objectives of a green transition and digital transformation and strengthens the Union’s resilience and strategic autonomy.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The objective of this call is to ensure the establishment of new National Coalitions and national websites in Member States that do not have one yet as well as the continued operation and expansion of activities of already established National Coalitions and national websites.
Detailed Call Description
This action will be implemented through a coordination and support action, which will fund a consortium whose responsibility it is to ensure that the activities listed in this call are carried out.
This action will contribute to reaching the targets set in the Digital Decade Policy Programme of increasing to 80% the number of European adults possessing at least a basic level of digital skills and reaching 20 million ICT professionals in Europe, while promoting access to women in this field in order to bridge the gender gap in the technology sector, by 2030, and contributing to the digitisation of key economic sectors.
This action aims to further extend the activities of National Coalitions’ websites established under CEF-TC calls in 2019 and 2020 as well as support the creation of new websites in Member States who do not have one yet within the network created by the CEF calls. In Member States that do not have a national website yet, a Nation Coalition should be set up. In Member States that already have a National Coalition and a national website, the consortium should ensure that either the already established National Coalition or another entity that wishes to become established as the new National Coalition perform the activities listed in this call. In Member States that already have a National Coalition but no national website, the consortium must ensure that the National Coalition performs the activities listed in this call to establish and operate the national website towards the connection with the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform.
Activities will include:
- Develop and connect the infrastructures (websites) of National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs that are not yet connected to the Core Platform through interoperable interconnections, integrating and enabling exchanges with the Core Platform components.
- Provide access to national/regional/local actors and practices, building interoperable links to provide services relevant to the local context.
- Expand and engage National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs that are already connected to the Core Platform.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs))
- non-EU countries: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme (associated countries)
Consortium composition
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium composed of a minimum of 5 applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities) from 4 different countries of which:
- minimum 4 applicants must be National Coalitions funded under the CEF-TC calls CEF-TC-2019-2 and CEF-TC-2020-2. All already established National Coalitions are highly encouraged to apply as members of the consortium.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
Directorate of Research and Innovation
Eleana Gabriel
Telephone: +357 22 691918
Email: egabriel@dmrid.gov.cy
EU Contact Point
For help related to this call, please visit the following link: Write to us | European Union (europa.eu)