17 Jun 2025
JRC analysis: EU channels € 207 billion into Digital Decade targets and objectives
Along with the European Commission's third yearly Communication on the State of the Digital Decade, the Joint Research Centre published an updated mapping exercise analysis identifying how EU funding contributes to achieving the 2030 Digital Decade targets. Latest estimates predict that € 207 billion (21% of total analysed funds) will support digital objectives between 2021 and 2027. Of this, € 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.
The analysis shows that 27% of the Digital Decade target-relevant spending focuses on the digitalisation of public services - more than € 30 billion - and 37% on the digitalisation of businesses. The largest share of the budget has been allocated to the online provision of key public services, the uptake of digital technologies by firms (AI, Data Analytics, Cloud), and the basic digitalisation of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and innovative scale-ups.
For more information:
JRC report: Update of Mapping of EU funds to Digital Decade targets 2021-2027