Specialised education programmes in key capacity areas
Advanced Digital Skills · DIGITAL-LS · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds consortia of universities, vocational schools, research bodies and companies to build advanced degree programmes in digital technologies like AI, cybersecurity, data science and extended reality. It supports creating interoperable campuses, shared equipment and learning content, and student scholarships. The goal is to train more specialists who can develop and apply advanced digital technologies across industry sectors.
artificial intelligence · cybersecurity · data analytics · extended reality · education skills · internet of things
Who wins this
A multi country consortium of higher education institutions, vocational training providers, research organisations and businesses that wants to jointly design and deliver advanced digital technology degree programmes with shared infrastructure and student scholarships.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Funding model
- DIGITAL-AG-LS
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Cut-off dates (5)
- 30 Jun 2026 · 31 Aug 2026 · 31 Oct 2026 · 31 Dec 2026 · 28 Feb 2027
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Eligible applicants
- higher education institution, vocational education and training institution, research organisation, business
- Support to third parties
- Financial support for at least 500 students through scholarships or other financial support measures.
- Also required
- Consortia must equip at least 2 fully interoperable higher education institutions and deliver tertiary degree education programmes at ISCED level 6, 7 or equivalent; detailed admissibility, eligibility and award conditions are described in the separate call document rather than in this text.
- Sectors
- AI/ML · Cybersecurity · Deep Tech
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System 2. Eligible countries: described in section 6 of of the call document 3. Other eligibility conditions: described in section 6 of the call document 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in section 7 of the call document Submission and evaluation processes: described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual Award criteria, scoring and thresholds: described in section 9 of the call document Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement: described in section 4 of the call document 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants: described in section 10 of the call document