The India-EU Digital Cooperation Conference will bring together policymakers, researchers, innovators, and business leaders to discuss and advance the cooperation between India and the European Union in the field of digital technologies and their application. It supports the Trade and Technology Council between the EU and India (Working Group 1 - Strategic Technologies, Digital Governance, and Digital Connectivity). This will be put into the broader context of the collaboration of the EU with the Indo-Pacific countries.  

Europe offers great opportunities for researchers and innovators from India and the whole Indo-Pacific region. The European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Funding programme is one of the largest and broadest in the world and is open for collaboration with a large number of countries. Japan and the Republic of Korea are already associated with Horizon Europe and negotiations between India and the EU are under way. Moreover, organisations from low- and middle-income countries are entitled to apply for funding within the scope of calls for proposals. The programme funds a broad range of activities, from research scholarships and staff exchange to large-scale collaborative innovation projects that involve industry, end-users, researchers, and others. 

The India-EU Digital Cooperation Conference 2026 will discuss core digital technologies and opportunities for collaboration between the EU and the Indo-Pacific countries on the development of technologies and their applications as well as technology-related regulations and policies. The Conference will provide a forum for in-depth exchanges on possible cooperations already within the open calls for 2027 in the current Framework Programme of Horizon Europe but also for the next phase which will start in 2028.

The conference will include a closed-door (upon invitation only) Policy Roundtable under the headline "From Agenda to Delivery: EU–India Digital Cooperation post-2026 Summit".