The European Commission launched the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Telecom 2019–1 call, making €19.2 million available to stimulate and sustain the deployment of European Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs) in the areas of Automated Translation, eIdentification and eSignature, eDelivery, eInvoicing, Europeana and the EU Student eCard.
On 12 February 2019, the European Commission formally initiated work with Member States to finance joint industrial projects in the field of defence.
On 14 February 2019, the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union reached a provisional political agreement on the first-ever Digital Europe programme, part of the EU's long-term budget presented by the Commission.
The Commission will award grants worth a total of €273 million to 1,351 researchers across the European Research Area.
On 15 February 2019, the European Commission adopted the revised Erasmus+ Annual Work Programme for 2019, allocating an additional €251 million to the already planned €3 billion budget for the year, which will be invested in learning mobility and a number of priority projects.