The beginning of 2022 opens a new chapter in our collective efforts towards creating a truly digital Europe!

The Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) (2021-2027) is a new EU funding programme focused on bringing digital technology to businesses, citizens and public administrations. It aims to accelerate the digital transformation of public administrations across Europe and help upskill them. It further aims to facilitate interoperability as a core enabler of Europe’s digital autonomy, and foster the uptake of interoperable cross-border and cross-sector public services in alignment with regulatory requirements.

The Digital Europe Programme continues and expands the mission of the now completed Connecting Europe Facility Programme (CEF Digital) (2014-2020), which has supported the adoption and reuse of digital building blocks in public and private projects and services on a continental scale. These building blocks make it easier to interconnect complex digital services and IT systems across Europe, and so support the EU’s twin green and digital transitions. 

The Digital Europe Programme has introduced some organisational changes to provision of cross-border interoperable digital services deployed under it. This includes focused efforts to support the digital transformation of public administrations throughout Europe. We have re-vamped our website to reflect these changes and the family of digital building blocks. Our eIDAS enablers give you access to free tools and support to help you build digital services in line with the eIDAS regulation. We kindly invite you to visit our refreshed website to learn more about the Digital Europe Programme and the building blocks underlying it.  

Together, we have achieved great results in promoting the EU’s digital goals of the last decade, be it eIDAS, electronic procurement or multilingualism online, and setting the scene for what President von der Leyen so notably called our coming “Digital Decade”. We would like to thank you for your continued support for the digital building blocks over the years and kindly invite you to read our insightful publication: "Six years of Connecting Europe - A report on Europe’s digital building blocks". 

But we want to go beyond this. The European Commission has worked – and will continue to do so – with Member States to provide technical enablers of cross-border interoperability directly in the form of IT solutions. Thanks to the digital building blocks, local, regional and national authorities enable the delivery of digital government services to European citizens.

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Digital Building Blocks Team