2 minute read / June 18, 2025
The third yearly Communication on the State of the Digital Decade, published today, confirms that digital transformation is still a key priority, and a driver for Europe’s competitiveness and strategic autonomy.
Since 2023, the Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) supports the identification of the EU funding that contributes to achieving the 2030 Digital Decade targets.
In an updated mapping exercise, the JRC analyses how key EU funding instruments help meet the 2030 targets. Latest estimates predict that EUR 207 billion (21% of total analysed funds) will support digital objectives between 2021 and 2027. Of this, EUR 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 EUR 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.
The Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) instrument shows the most balanced distribution across the four cardinal points of the Digital Decade policy programme.
See the geographical distribution of Digital Decade spending across Member States, both from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and Cohesion Policy (CP), here.
