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ELEVATE: European League of Advanced Digital Skills Academies

Funds one consortium to coordinate Europe's sectoral digital-skills academies and build a quality seal for advanced digital-skills training.

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The same call also funds a separate, sibling topic for European advanced digital-skills competitions, worth a further EUR 7 million with its own single grant, and part of the League's communication work is expected to support promoting those competitions once they are running. For its market analysis and foresight work, the League has to collaborate closely with the team already funded under an ea…

This call funds a single umbrella action, ELEVATE, that federates existing digital-skills initiatives — including the Cybersecurity Skills Academy, the EuroHPC Virtual Training Academy and the newly created sectoral digital skills academies — plus other EU-funded advanced digital-skills projects. It targets the EU's goal of 20 million employed ICT professionals by 2030, with a focus on capacity building, coordination, communication and market analysis.

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