Digital Europe 2021-2027

The Digital Europe programme for the period 2021-2027 aims to increase and maximise the benefits of digital transformation for all EU citizens, public administrations and businesses. Strategic funds will be invested in supporting projects in five key areas: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and ensuring a wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society. Programme's objectives Digital Europe aims to strengthen and promote Europe's capabilities in key areas of digital technologies through large-scale implementation. In the private sector and in areas of public interest, expand the deployment and take-up of key European digital technologies, promoting transformation and access to digital technologies. The European Commission intends to complement the funding available through other EU programmes, such as the Horizon Europe programme, the Connecting Europe Facility for digital infrastructure, the Recovery and Resilience Facility and the Structural funds. The five interlinked specific objectives of the programme are the following: Objective 1 - High-Performance Computing Operational objectives: Implement, coordinate and operate in an integrated, demand-driven, application-driven, world-class exascale data and supercomputing infrastructure, easily accessible to public and private users, in particular SMEs, and easily accessible for research purposes, in accordance with EU Regulation 2018/1488; deploy operational ready technology from research and innovation activities in order to create an integrated Union-wide ecosystem for HPC encompassing various aspects of the scientific and industrial value chain segments, including hardware, software, applications, services, interconnections and e-skills, with a high-level of security and data protection; implement and operate a post-exascale infrastructure, including integration with quantum computing technologies, and research computing infrastructures; encourage the development in the Union of the necessary hardware and software for such implementation....