Overview of the project
The Joint Research Centre, in collaboration with the Directorate‑General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (CNECT), launched a study aimed at supporting the shaping and monitoring of the Digital Decade Policy Programme.
This research provides unique insights into the state of digitalisation in Europe and its investment landscape with respect to other major geopolitical actors along two main lines of activities:
- Developing the methodological framework to estimate Digital Decade trajectories of the EU towards its 2030 targets.
- Estimating and analysing the EU funding of the Digital Decade targets and benchmarking European Union private digital investments with respect to other countries.
This work has been instrumental to estimate the EU level Digital Decade trajectories and supports the first State of the Digital Decade Report.
Explore the methodological framework designed to estimate the EU level Digital Decade trajectories
Monitoring EU public funding and private investments that support the Digital Decade
Policy background
The EU recognises the central role of the digital transformation in driving economic growth, productivity, innovation and empowering people. Digital technologies have the potential to significantly transform society and the economy.
In light of this, digital transformation has become a strategic priority in the EU as set out by the 2030 Digital Compass Communication and the European Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles.
Central to this is the Digital Decade policy programme 2030, which guides Europe’s digital transformation and aims to ensure that all European citizens and businesses can take full advantage of digitalisation.
It sets a series of targets to be achieved by 2030, organised into four cardinal points:
- digital skills;
- digital infrastructure;
- digitalisation of business;
- and digitalisation of the public sector.
The aim is to accelerate the digital transformation of Europe by making progress in these key digital areas.
The policy programme establishes an annual cooperation mechanism to monitor progress on the digital targets and objectives, and calls for the launch of Multi-Country Projects, to channel investments and scaled efforts towards achieving the targets and supported by the European Digital Infrastructure Consortium.
The establishment of several funding instruments such as the Recovery and Resilience Facility, Digital Europe, Connecting Europe Facility among others also reflects the EU’s commitment to digital transformation.