Grants

This grant aims to strengthen the capacity of workers' organisations in EU Member States and candidate countries to address challenges at EU or transnational level, including changes in employment and working conditions and participation in social dialogue. It welcomes actions preparing negotiations of autonomous social partner agreements, supporting their implementation, and addressing themes such as employment and social challenges, labour market modernisation, digitalisation, just transition to a climate-neutral economy, skills development, and social protection.

The Net-Zero AI4Permitting grant aims to significantly increase the permitting management capacity of local authorities. The main objectives are to accelerate permitting procedures, primarily for authorities in net-zero acceleration valleys within coal regions, and to deploy state-of-the-art software, especially AI-based or digital technologies, to streamline compliance with the Net-Zero Industry Act requirements. Eligible activities include procurement of AI-based software, the extension of existing non-AI IT solutions with AI capabilities, procurement or development of dedicated non-AI IT solutions, and deployment-related activities such as integration and training.

The EdTech Accelerator aims to support European EdTech startups and SMEs in developing innovative educational technology solutions. The programme delivers a yearly 12-month incubation and acceleration framework, which provides mentoring, networking, consultancy, training, and business and access-to-market support. The accelerator also manages three open calls for pilots, supporting at least 20 EdTech startups/SMEs, and organizes impactful European-wide communication activities. The ultimate objective is to foster an EdTech ecosystem that drives innovation, creates jobs, and achieves clear educational outcomes, with a particular focus on ethics, inclusion, accessibility, privacy, security, and strong pedagogical foundations.

This grant supports the consolidation and extension of the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform, connecting national coalitions for digital skills and jobs to a unified EU platform. It aims to strengthen collaborations, further connect and develop national coalition websites, provide funding for the creation of new coalitions, and support national, regional, and local actors with relevant digital skills services. The goal is to sustain and stimulate activities leading to more active coalitions, an increase in the number of National Coalitions and coalition members, and to enhance interoperability with platforms like EIT Campus and sectoral academies.

The EDIC Support Hub aims to provide comprehensive legal, operational, and strategic support to the European Digital Infrastructure Consortia (EDICs), the European Commission, and Member States to consolidate, strengthen, and ensure the long-term sustainability of the EDIC ecosystem. It offers legal and operational advice, maintains a consolidated repository of EDIC data and best practices, supports outreach, coordinates among EDICs and stakeholders, proposes milestones for strategic development, and organizes knowledge-sharing activities including an Annual EDIC Gathering. The objective is to enhance transparency, build expertise, promote consolidated information access, and support the creation of new EDIC initiatives while aligning with EU digital policy objectives.

Supports joint design and delivery of advanced digital skills training for AI uptake in healthcare. Initiatives must assess learning needs among target audiences, create and maintain a comprehensive training catalogue and course plan, and evaluate training outcomes and skill improvements. Trainings should be updated according to feedback, offered at varying depths/complexities, promoted via a landing page, and involve higher education, VET, research, and business stakeholders, in collaboration with the European network of AI-powered advanced screening centres. Aims to address the lack of advanced digital skills in the EU health sector and foster cross-sectoral partnerships.

The objective of the grant is to contribute to protection and empowerment of children online throughout the EU, by ensuring comprehensive geographical coverage of the national Safer Internet Centres (SICs) network. The SICs provide awareness-raising, localised resources, helplines, hotlines for CSAM reporting, and youth participation activities to promote online safety for children, parents, educators, and other relevant professionals. Activities include support for vulnerable groups, digital literacy, cooperation with law enforcement and private sector, and training on children's rights online. SICs act as one-stop-shops for resources, digital literacy, and can serve as trusted flaggers under the Digital Services Act.

This grant aims to support the deployment and upgrading of digital health services and systems aligned with the European Health Data Space (EHDS) Regulation. It covers capacity building for public authorities, healthcare providers, and service providers to strengthen the rights of citizens through cross-border access to electronic health records (EHRs) and secondary use of health data. The grant enables the development of a toolbox for data quality and utility labelling, training frameworks and sessions for service providers, and supports the adoption of the European Electronic Health Record Exchange Format (EEHRxF). The project provides cascading funding for third parties, enhancing healthcare digitalization, fostering data discoverability, and increasing data quality across EU Member States.

This grant aims to deliver several projects that demonstrate the streamlining of regulatory reporting through automated and trusted sharing of compliance data. Projects will focus on governance, technical, legal, and processing aspects to simplify compliance with EU legislation, using advanced digital technologies such as AI, data capturing, automation, cloud storage, encryption, and privacy-preserving technologies. The goal is to minimize the administrative burden for enterprises, automate the reporting process, ensure data security and confidentiality, enable real-time compliance checks, and facilitate direct communication with regulatory authorities. The initiative targets strategic sectors including healthcare, energy, manufacturing, agriculture, and environment, and strives for open-source, scalable, interoperable, and user-friendly solutions.