Digital Europe Programme contributes to a digital society by providing over €127 million of funding to projects managed by HaDEA

Digital Europe Programme projects managed by HaDEA contribute to fulfilling Europe’s objective of digital transformation by reinforcing EU critical digital capacities in the key areas. They bring benefits to both citizens and businesses, especially SMEs.

24 projects in five topics have been awarded over €127 million EU funding:

• European Blockchain Services Infrastructure – Deployment of services: the projects support the roll out of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) in order to accelerate the uptake of blockchain in Europe.
• Blockchain Standardisation: the projects involve and empower European stakeholders, participating in the development of open technical specifications and standards. They also leverage on the work of EBSI (including best practices and use-cases).
• European Digital Identity Framework: the projects support the implementation of the European Digital Identity Wallet by piloting the usage of the wallet by public and private sector in a number of key use cases (e.g. e-government services, travel, payments, education).
• Security (law enforcement) – AI based pilots: the projects are working to enable the final validation and to foster the uptake of artificial intelligence (AI) systems for law enforcement (LE) by running large scale pilots.
• Specialised education programmes or modules in key capacity areas: the projects are working to support excellence in higher education institutions and to increase the capacity of the training offer for advanced technologies, by supporting the design and delivery of higher education programme(s) and by developing related self-standing modules/courses (online or in-person) leading to a certification.

These projects have been selected through two competitive calls for proposals under the Digital Europe Work Programme 2021-2022.

Other projects funded under the Digital Europe Programme and managed by HaDEA cover topics such as Safer Internet for Children, Data Space for Cultural Heritage, Advanced Digital Skills, European Digital Media Observatory, Digital Product Passport.

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