The EU4Digital Academy activity is seeking potential partners. This programme will provide a digital learning platform with user-friendly, web-based courses tailored to the needs of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Eastern Partnership (EaP) region. Launched during the 2023 EU4Digital ICT Innovation Forum on 9 March, the EU4Digital Academy will help achieve the EU-EaP policy agenda to digitally empower 1 million EaP citizens and support 500,000 SMEs in the Eastern partner countries.

The European Union’s commitment to Ukraine’s digital transformation was reaffirmed as part of a joint statement following the 24th EU-Ukraine Summit. Charles Michel, President of the European Council, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, met in Kyiv on 3 February and issued the statement about EU-Ukraine relations in view of the EU candidate status of Ukraine, the status of the Association Agreement and Ukraine’s EU accession.

The EC is inviting feedback on a draft act regarding key performance indicators (KPIs) of progress towards the Digital Decade policy programme 2030. These KPIs are to be used to measure underlying trends at the national as well as European level. Anyone wishing to participate is welcome to login via the EC information page and share their views before the deadline: midnight, Brussels time on 13 March 2023.

Any digital infrastructure is at risk if subjected to bombardment or power outages. Cloud services are a reliable option for securing data and information. Ukraine’s research and education institutions can access leading cloud platforms with the help of EaPConnect partner URAN Association, participants in an online event on 31 January 2023 heard.

After multiple rounds of public consultations, the 2023-2027 Strategy for Digital Transformation of the Republic of Moldova is ready for approval. EU4Digital experts alongside a wide range of stakeholders, international donors, associations, public and private institutions, engaged in consultations regarding the Moldovan government's vision for the next 7 years

The Digital Decade policy programme 2030 has entered into force. The European Parliament, Member States and the European Commission have jointly set concrete objectives and targets in four key areas in this strategic vision for the development of the digital economy.

To mark the end of its first year, the EU4Digital: Connecting Research and Education Communities (EaPConnect) project is highlighting some of the women whose expertise in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) contributes to its partners’ success.

Digital infrastructure and services from EaPConnect partner AzScienceNet are vital to Azerbaijan’s research collaboration with CERN, which helps the country develop its fundamental science capabilities.

Thanks to EaPConnect equipment and partner expertise, a research and education digital services crisis caused by the ongoing war was resolved.

Twenty-five schools in Moldova will be digitalised with the financial support of the European Union through the Digital School initiative.

The National Science Library of Georgia and GRENA collaborated on the Digital Repository of Georgian Scientific Works, available in ESOC and NI4OS.

Achievements and plans of EU4Digital projects were reviewed in the 2022 EU4Digital Initiative Steering Committee meeting on 25 October, which marked the kick-off of the EU4Digital Facility Phase II.