Europe faces escalating global competition, increasing gaps in digital skills and a patchy adoption of key digital technologies such as High-Performance Computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI); from high-tech sectors to traditional industries, and from large conglomerates to SMEs. This disparity is widening the digital divide and impacting economic development unevenly across Member States.
The Digital Europe Programme tackles these key challenges in the areas of digital technology and infrastructure to foster EU’s open strategic autonomy, digital competitiveness, and critical digital capacities. It aims to bring digital technology to businesses, citizens, and public administrations by providing strategic funding in six key areas:
- Supercomputing.
- Artificial Intelligence.
- Cybersecurity.
- Advanced digital skills.
- The deployment, best use, and interoperability of digital capacities in economy and society.
- The EU Chips Act promoting EU leadership in semiconductor technologies and applications.
Technopolis Group, in partnership with Ramboll, is conducting the interim evaluation of DEP and invites a broad stakeholder group such as SMEs, academia, social partners, public authorities, and other public and private organisations, NGOs, and citizens from EU Member States and countries associated to the programme to participate in the public consultation.
This public consultation is designed to collect insights into the needs of stakeholders in the digital transformation, the perceived benefits of Digital Europe Programme, and how the programme could be improved; and the responses will be valuable in shaping the future of digital uptake in Europe.
The questionnaire will be available until 20 September 2024 in English, French and German, contributions are welcomed in any official EU language.
Click here to participate.
