The Commission today launched a new online portal for the EU’s Strategic Technologies Platform 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 sectors : digital technologies and innovation in frontier technologies, clean and resource-efficient technologies and biotechnologies..
Projects funded under the platform could, for example, support the development of new antivirals and the building of artificial intelligence (AI) models in the EU, or provide skills support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) operating in key green technologies. To maximise public and private investment, high quality eligible projects will receive a “STEP Label” and will be actively promoted through the STEP portal.
STEP mobilises resources from eleven EU investment programmes to support European industry and boost investment in critical technologies in Europe, with the aim of strengthening EU competitiveness and reducing strategic dependencies. The Commission is currently assessing the first set of projects from Member States with the aim of using cohesion policy funds to support investments in clean, digital and biotech technologies. The list of concrete STEP-funded projects will be published in the coming months.
On 20 June 2023, the Commission presented the mid-term review of the EU’s multiannual financial framework for the period 2021-2027, which included the proposal for a Regulation establishing STEP. STEP entered into force on 1 March 2024.
Source: European Commission
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