Poland's digital affairs ministry plans to allocate PLN 4.5 bln for digitisation in 2025
Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs, in cooperation with, among others, the National Center for Research and Development NCBiR, wants to allocate a total of around PLN 4.5 billion (EUR 1.1 bln) in 2025 through support programmes and European Funds for the development of digitalisation in the broadest sense, Deputy Prime Minister and digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski told a conference.
"In the coming year, the Polish digitalisation development of artificial intelligence, cloud services and everything concerning the processes of responsibility for the state, this is the development of 5G networks (...) will gain enormous value and will have great support. In 2025, a total of PLN 4.5 billion will be spent on the development of Polish digitalisation thanks to NCBiR funds and the Artificial Intelligence Fund," Gawkowski said.
"The first programme that is being implemented is the programme in the SMART path and this programme started to be eligible from 10 January - PLN 1.3 billion. (...) The next programme Infostarteg, which will be directed most towards artificial intelligence, is an amount reaching PLN 800 million," he explained.
He added that further programmes planned for 2025 will guarantee additional funding of over PLN 2 billion (EUR 468.8 mln).
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