About
The Digital Skills and Jobs Platform is a European Commission initiative managed by the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. It serves as a central hub for digital skills development across Europe, facilitating access to training opportunities, funding programs, career guidance, and community building. The platform supports the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition, bringing together stakeholders to equip Europeans with the skills needed in the digital age through initiatives, pledges, and collaborative actions across all EU member states.
Funding Opportunities
ELEVATE: European League of Advanced Digital Skills Academies DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-09-LEAGUE-OF-ACADEMIES
The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) has launched the 9th Digital Europe Call for Advanced Digital Skills (DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-09) under the Digital Europe Programme to fund projects that strengthen advanced digital skills in line with the EU's Digital Decade and Competitiveness Compass goals. The first topic of the call aims at establishing the European League of Advanced Digital Skills Academies (ELEVATE) — an overarching framework designed to guide governance, enhance coordination, and ensure coherence among various sectoral initiatives. ELEVATE will foster synergies and support the effective implementation of objectives across existing efforts such as the Cybersecurity Skills Academy, the EuroHPC Skills Community, and the newly created advanced digital skills academies in AI, Virtual Worlds, Quantum, and Semiconductors. It will also align with other EU-funded projects focused on advanced digital skills, including DIGITAL-funded specialised education programmes, in order to reduce fragmentation. The consortium is expected to establish an agile governance structure and stakeholder engagement plan, develop quality and certification frameworks for ICT education, create mentoring, fellowship, and alumni networks, conduct market analysis on advanced digital skills supply and labour demand, and implement a communication strategy and repository hosted on the DSJP to share outcomes and best practices EU-wide.
European Advanced Digital Skills Competitions DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-09-COMPETITIONS
The European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) has launched a call for proposals under the Digital Europe Programme to fund projects that strengthen advanced digital skills in line with the EU's Digital Decade and Competitiveness Compass goals. The European Advanced Digital Skills Competitions initiative will serve as a catalyst for engaging young European people in cutting edge digital technologies. The competitions will support their creativity and connect them to the wider community of research organisations and industry players with the aim to address a highly relevant societal or industrial challenge. There will be six competitions each covering one of the following areas: AI, Virtual Worlds, quantum, semiconductors, the Destination Earth initiative as well as an additional area chosen by the consortium. The selected project will define at least three challenges for each competition. These challenges will address significant European or local societal, technological, and/or complex industrial issues, developed in close collaboration with Europe's leading research institutions and industry partners. Each challenge should involve multiple competing teams. These teams must include students from tertiary education institutions or equivalent, representing at least four different education and training institutions across four different EU Member States or countries associated with the DIGITAL Programme. Teams may also consist of students from a single institution. The active participation of women in the teams is strongly encouraged. The consortium is expected to design challenges, produce rulebooks, develop roadmaps, create communication strategies, organise an Award Ceremony in Brussels, and deliver a sustainability plan to ensure the competitions continue beyond the project's duration. The funding supports coordination and support actions with a 100% funding rate. The expected project duration is 48 months with a maximum available budget of EUR 7,000,000 per project.
CyberHUBs Capacity Building
The CyberHUBs Capacity Building programme strengthens Europe's cybersecurity infrastructure through two interconnected initiatives under the Digital Europe Programme and the EU Cyber Solidarity Act. The programme addresses Europe's increased exposure to sophisticated cross-border cyber threats by establishing and reinforcing national and cross-border cybersecurity coordination centers. The first topic (DIGITAL-ECCC-2026-DEPLOY-CYBER-10-NCH) focuses on establishing or strengthening National Cyber Hubs equipped with advanced tools to monitor, analyse, and manage cyber events. These hubs will operate in close coordination with CSIRTs, ISACs, and other national cybersecurity entities, providing early warnings to critical infrastructures and potentially extending capabilities to monitor undersea infrastructure including submarine cables. The second topic (DIGITAL-ECCC-2026-DEPLOY-CYBER-10-CBCH) establishes Cross-Border Cyber Hubs that connect national nodes to enable real-time intelligence sharing and a unified EU-wide response. These hubs will implement processes, tools, and services for prevention, detection, and analysis of emerging cyberattacks, using open standards for cyber threat intelligence sharing such as MISP Standard, CSAF, and IntelMQ. Together, these initiatives will enhance early threat detection, support protection of critical infrastructure, and advance a more sovereign, coordinated, and resilient European cybersecurity ecosystem with a total available funding of EUR 4,000,000.
At a Glance
- Total Funding Opportunities
- 9
- Active Now
- 3
- Source Domain
- digital-skills-jobs.europa.eu
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