Source: European Parliament
The Commission adopted the AI (Artificial Intelligence) Continent Action Plan[1] and launched a public consultation[2] for the Apply AI strategy to identify key challenges for AI uptake in industrial sectors and public administration.
The Commission’s efforts to support the digitalisation of public administrations include the network of European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIHs)[3] that support municipalities and regions in their digital transformation. Starting in December 2025, EDIHs will become Experience Centres for AI, accelerating uptake of AI inter alia in public administration.
Moreover, the Commission will support up to four pilot projects with a EUR 21 million budget to accelerate the deployment of generative AI solutions in public administrations.
The Commission has also promoted the creation of a Data Space for Smart Communities[4] to allow local and regional administrations to share local data and use Local Digital Twins.
The CitiVERSE[5] initiative facilitates city planning using Extended Reality tools. Moreover, the Alliance for Language Technologies project[6] federates Member States to address the shortages of language data for AI[7].
- [1] https://commission.europa.eu/topics/eu-competitiveness/ai-continent_en.
- [2] The consultation closes on 4 June 2025.
- [3] https://european-digital-innovation-hubs.ec.europa.eu/home.
- [4] https://www.ds4sscc.eu/.
- [5] https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/factpages/citiverse.
- [6] www.alt-edic.eu/about-us/.
- [7] The ALT-EDIC projects co-financed by the DIGITAL programme include ALT-EDIC4EU (EUR 4M), LLMs4EU (EUR 40M), and OpenEuroLLM (40 Mio) to improve the European Language Technology Ecosystem, the collection of high-quality data and the development of multilingual LLMs.