DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-NATIONAL-COALITIONS

Digital Skills and Jobs Platform: The National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs

Status
open for submission
Programme
Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)
Action type
DIGITAL Coordination and Support Actions
Opens
21 Apr 2026
Deadline
1 Oct 2026
Fetched
15 Jul 2026, 07:18 UTC
Plain-language summary

Support and expand National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs, connecting them to the EU Digital Skills and Jobs Platform.

This call funds coordination actions to maintain and grow the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform and its National Coalitions. It aims to connect more national websites to the EU platform and increase coalition engagement. Activities include developing interoperable websites and supporting local digital skills initiatives.

Likely relevant for

  • Digital skills coalitions
  • Public administrations involved in digital skills
  • Civil society organisations in digital education
  • Digital platform managers
  • Training providers in digital skills

Project signals

Digital skills platform developmentNational coalition networkingInteroperability of digital servicesCommunity engagement in digital skills

What it funds

  • Operation and maintenance of the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform
  • Extension and connection of National Coalition websites to the Core Platform
  • Support for creation of new National Coalition websites in Member States without one
  • Engagement and expansion of National Coalitions and their members
  • Interoperable infrastructure development for digital skills platforms
  • Financial support for third parties to implement activities at national level

Expected outcomes

  • Increased number and activity of National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs
  • Enhanced interoperability and data exchange between national websites and the EU platform
  • Greater engagement of stakeholders in digital skills initiatives
  • Sustained operation and adaptive maintenance of the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform

Who can apply / participate

  • Public bodies
  • Non-profit organisations
  • Civil society organisations
  • Educational institutions
  • Consortia of the above
  • Check call document for consortium composition rules
  • Eligible countries as per call document section 6
  • Refer to call document section 6 for detailed eligibility conditions
  • Specific consortium size and composition requirements
  • Exact eligible countries list

Must check before shortlisting

  • Eligibility criteria in call document section 6
  • Consortium requirements if any
  • Financial and operational capacity conditions

Money

The total budget available for this topic is approximately 2 million EUR for 1 grant in 2026.

  • Total budget for DIGITAL-2026-SKILLS-10-NATIONAL-COALITIONS — 2000000EUR
    Indicative number of grants: 1

Application notes

  • Single-stage submission model.
  • Proposal page limits and layout as described in call document section 5 and application form Part B.
  • Eligibility and admissibility conditions detailed in call document section 6.
  • Financial and operational capacity requirements in call document section 7.
  • Evaluation criteria and process in call document section 8 and 9.
  • Legal and financial set-up described in call document section 10.
  • Prepare proposal according to call document and application form templates.
  • Submit proposal via the Funding & Tenders Portal before the deadline.
  • Ensure compliance with eligibility and admissibility criteria.
  • Follow evaluation and award procedures as per call document.
  • Check detailed eligibility and consortium rules in call document.
  • Financial support for third parties capped at 150,000 EUR per third party.
  • Refer to call document for exact deadlines and submission details.

Derived from official EU Funding portal source · updated 22 Jun 2026, 14:20 UTC. Use this as a shortlisting aid; the official call text remains authoritative.

Official source text

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Topic description

Expected Outcome: Deliverable: Connected National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs to the Core Platform. Objective: The Digital Skills and Jobs Platform provides a single point of information related to digital skills in Europe. At EU level, the Platform gathers all relevant information and funding opportunities for stakeholders to benefit from. At national level, it connects to National Coalition websites, establishing a mutually enriching exchange with relevant content and data on digital skills and jobs. In 2024, 22 national websites are connected to the Platform. Additional Member States websites will be connected by the ongoing project on National Coalitions for Digital Skills and Jobs [1] by 2026. The Platform also hosts the Cyber Security Skills Academy and will host other relevant sectoral academies and initiatives. The objective of this topic is to consolidate and uphold the operation of the Digital Skills and Jobs Platform, including corrective and adaptive maintenance. This topic will also sustain and extend the activities related to the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition, as well as deepening the exchange between the National Coalition websites and the core Platform. This topic aims to further increase the number of National Coalitions, to get existing and new National Coalitions to be more active and engaged, and to increase the number of members of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition. Synergies should be sought with the EIT Campus, EIT Digital’s (d)Academy Skills Passport Platform, the EIT Deep Tech Talent Initiative (DTTI) and other relevant initiatives. 1 Project selected under the call DIGITAL-2024-ADVANCED-DIGITAL-06-SKILLS. Scope: The action under this work-strand will aim to further extend the activities of National Coalitions’ websites established under CEF calls in 2019 and 2020 and DIGITAL call of 2024, as well as support the creation of new websites in Member States who do not have any National Coalition or website yet. Activities under the second work strand will: Develop and connect the infrastructures (websites) of National Coalitions that are not yet connected to the Core Platform through interoperable interconnections, integrating and enabling exchanges with the Core Platform components. Provide access to national/regional/local actors and practices, building interoperable links to provide services relevant to the local context. Expand and engage National Coalitions that are already connected to the Core Platform. The support to Nation Coalitions in a given Member State can take the form of Financial Support for Third Parties (FSTP) of a maximum amount of 150.000 EUR per third party to allow sufficient funding for the implementation of their activities.

Conditions and documents

Conditions

1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout

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 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.

5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes

described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual.

5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds

described in section 9 of the call document.

5c. Evaluation and award: 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.

Support information

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