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Digital Europe Programme

The Digital Europe Programme funds deployment, not research: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills and the digital transformation of public administration.

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Open calls

open and forthcoming

Published budget

€329M

summed across topics

Grants expected

projects that will be funded

Closing within 30 days

move now or wait for the next round

What this programme is

The Digital Europe Programme funds deployment, not research: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills and the digital transformation of public administration. Where Horizon Europe pays to find out whether something works, Digital Europe pays to roll it out, which is why co-financing rates are lower and consortia often include public bodies as users.

Of the 23 calls open under it now, 5 state that a consortium is required and 1 accept a single applicant.

The published expectation across these calls is 76 funded projects, the honest denominator when you weigh whether to spend a month writing. 2 calls use lump-sum funding, where you are paid for delivering work packages rather than for reporting costs. The next cut-off is 24 Sept 2026.

When it closes

3 months carry a cut-off. Each links to every call closing that month, across all programmes.

September 20264 cut-offs October 202612 cut-offs January 20277 cut-offs

€4.0M

Median grant

No funding rate is published for these calls, so the co-financing share is unknown until you read the conditions.

22%

Need a consortium

5 of 23 calls state that several organisations must apply together. Assembling one takes months, so it is the first gate to check.

€70M

Largest grant on offer

AI compute evaluation and deployment platform for EU infrastructure

Where the money is

Most grants here are €2.0m to €10m, 55% of the 22 calls that publish a figure, and 5 go above €10M. The other 1 publish no per-grant figure, or publish in another currency.

Who may apply

22% of these calls want several organisations applying together; 1 accept a single applicant, and 17 do not say.

Closing soonest

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The nine nearest cut-offs under this programme. Everything else is in the full list, where you can filter by deadline, applicant type and funding rate.

CallNext cut-offPer grant

Other funders in European Union

Programme	Open calls	Published budget	Soonest cut-off
Horizon Europe	482	€16B	09 Sept '26
European Defence Fund	37	€7.3B	29 Sept '26
LIFE Programme	31	€775M	08 Sept '26
EU External Action (EuropeAid)	23	,	24 Aug '26
Connecting Europe Facility	11	€2.7B	30 Sept '26
Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values	8	€163M	15 Sept '26
Research Fund for Coal and Steel	7	€65M	16 Sept '26
Erasmus+	5	€125K	17 Sept '26

Figures are computed from what Digital Europe Programme itself publishes. A call appears here only while a cut-off is still ahead of it.

About Digital Europe Programme

Who can apply to Digital Europe Programme calls?

It is set per call, not per programme. 22% of these calls want several organisations applying together; 1 accept a single applicant, and 17 do not say. Where the conditions state the requirement we quote the sentence they state it in; where they do not, we infer it from the type of action and mark it as inferred, and an inferred value never appears without that mark.

What does the budget figure mean?

It is the sum of what the funder published per call, in the funder's own currency, converted once at the European Central Bank rates this build holds. Calls that publish no budget contribute nothing rather than an estimate, so the total is a floor, not a guess.

How often does this page change?

The corpus is re-synced nightly and the site is rebuilt with it. Cut-offs and countdowns are recomputed at build time, so a call that closed since the last sync leaves this page rather than sitting here with a stale date.

Can I see only the calls I could win?

Yes, the fit check reads every call on this page against your organisation on the gates that decide admissibility, and it runs in your browser with no account. Calls that block you are shown with the condition that blocks them, because sometimes it is one you can change.

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