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Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform 2024

2024 Annual Report on the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP)

EU budget set for defence-related boost under new regulation

New targeted amendments to existing EU funding programmes will support faster, more flexible and coordinated investments in Europe's defence technological and industrial base (EDTIB). Under a new Regulation to stimulate defence-related investments within the EU budget proposed today by the Commission, the EU will strengthen its defence Readiness 2030 and to implement the ReArm Europe […]

Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform mobilises over €15 billion to boost investments in Europe in its first year

Today, the Strategic Technologies for Europe Platform (STEP) celebrates its first year in action for the development and manufacturing of critical technologies in Europe. Over the past year, STEP has pooled the investment firepower of 11 EU programmes, mobilising over €15 billion to support Europe's competitiveness in three strategic sectors: digital technologies and deep-tech innovation, […]

New online portal for the EU's Strategic Technologies for Europe (STEP) initiative

This one-stop-shop allows investors, project promoters and national managing authorities to access key information and identify EU funding opportunities in STEP's three strategic areas: digital and frontier technologies, clean and resource-efficient technologies and biotechnologies. Projects funded through the platform could, for example, support the development of new antivirals and the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) […]