GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

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.

The funding rate is 50% and 75% funding rate (for SMEs).

Maximum grant amount: is between €1.000.000 and €3.000.000 per project.

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 (list of participating countries)

Consortium composition Proposals must be submitted by:

• minimum 2 independent applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities);
• the coordinator of the consortium must be established in an EU Member State to be covered by the hub.

For complementary information please refer to section 2 Targeted stakeholders (page 11 in the call document).

Targeted stakeholders: are European fact-checkers, preferably recognised by reputable fact-checking networks such as EFCNS or IFCN. Media practitioners, media literacy specialists, experts and researchers working on disinformation, as well as other stakeholders which conduct relevant activities related to disinformation including open-source intelligence. A hub should involve a data scientist, as well as a communication specialist with expertise in collaborating with professional media outlets and in communication activities carried out through social media.

Targeted stakeholder is any entity capable of contributing to the implementation of Multi-country Projects, thus facilitating the achievement of the general objectives and the digital targets, including in particular the user community of the digital infrastructures or services provided.