The third yearly Communication on the State of the Digital Decade, published today, confirms that digital transformation is still a key priority, and a driver for Europe’s competitiveness and strategic autonomy.
Since 2023, the Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) supports the identification of the EU funding that contributes to achieving the 2030 Digital Decade targets.
In an updated mapping exercise, the JRC analyses how key EU funding instruments help meet the 2030 targets. Latest estimates predict that EUR 207 billion (21% of total analysed funds) will support digital objectives between 2021 and 2027. Of this, EUR 177.5 billion contributes directly to achieving the EU’s Digital Decade targets.
The analysis focuses on five main funding instruments: Recovery and Resilience Facility, Cohesion Policy, Horizon Europe, Digital Europe Programme, and Connecting Europe Facility-Digital. The JRC report confirms most of the trends identified in the past and provides additional details on how countries are receiving and spending such funds.