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Digital Europe Programme

Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)

Status

Closes in 94 days

Applications close 2027-01-14.

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Amount
Not published

Programme budget is 'over €8.1 billion' for the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027. Grant sizes and co-funding rates are set per topic in the annual work programmes (typically 50% for most actions and higher for some, but this was not stated on the official programme page, so cofunding_pct is null here rather than guessed).

Funder

European Commission (DG CNECT), implemented by HaDEA and EISMEA

public · supranational

Deadline: One call a year — Calls published on the F&T Portal with topic-specific deadlines. Currently listed open: CYBER-11-DUALUSE, CYBER-11-EULEG and CYBER-11-NCC, 01-09-2026 to 14-01-2027.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
moderate

Moderate — a form and supporting documents.

Who can apply

The programme 'supports industry, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and public administration in their digital transformation'. Thematic areas: 'supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and ensuring a wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society', plus semiconductors added in September 2023. Important nuance for aggregators: much of the SME-facing value flows indirectly, via European Digital Innovation Hubs, whose services to an SME may themselves count as de minimis aid at national level.

How to apply

  1. Search the DIGITAL programme page on the Funding & Tenders Portal for open topics. — link
  2. Register your organisation and obtain a PIC. — link
  3. Submit the proposal by the topic deadline. Many DIGITAL topics fund consortia or European Digital Innovation Hubs, which then deliver free or subsidised services to SMEs. — link

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/activities/digital-programme

"With an overall budget of over €8.1 billion, DIGITAL aims to shape the digital transformation ... supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and ensuring a wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society"

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu

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