A rich EU4Digital harvest: newsletter September 2025
No lazy summer days for EU4Digital: we have a rich harvest of fruitful developments to tell you about from the past few months!

Our EU4Digital Academy’s ‘Cybersecurity’ and ‘Digital Marketing Essentials’ courses are now available in more local languages, for citizens and businesses in Eastern partner countries. We have an abundance of reports and other useful outputs from our recent efforts to strengthen multilingual digital tools and to support the development of 5G private networks. And we’ve been excited to start new work, which will help ensure that regional integration and digital transformation are well-rooted in the health-giving soil of data protection.

So, as always, we hope you enjoy this EU4Digital newsletter and we invite you to let us know if you have any feedback and to invite your contacts to sign up for future editions.

HIGHLIGHTS

NEW! EU4Digital to strengthen GDPR enablement

EU4Digital announced a new initiative to strengthen data protection principles and standards in the legislative frameworks of Eastern partner countries. The activity will align their frameworks with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, ensuring that Eastern partner citizens’ data is protected in accordance with EU standards — crucial for cross-border digital solutions and so accelerating digital transformation and regional integration.

‘Digital Marketing Essentials’ course now available in all Eastern partner languages

The EU4Digital Academy’s ‘Digital Marketing Essentials’ course is now available in Azerbaijani, Armenian, Romanian and Ukrainian, as well as English. This normally costly course is free-of-charge to citizens of Eastern partner countries, upon registration, and is perfect for non-marketing teams looking to build their digital awareness and understand the core principles of digital marketing

Ukrainian language ‘Cybersecurity’ course now available from EU4Digital Academy

Ukrainian citizens and SMEs can now take EU4Digital Academy’s ‘Cybersecurity‘ course in Ukrainian, free of charge. This translated version of our online training is suitable for non-experts, takes around 5 hours at your own pace, shows you how to secure your personal and professional digital life, and can result in an EU–aligned, social media-friendly ‘badge’ to show your new skills and knowledge.

OTHER STORIES

EU4Digital 5G private networks roadmaps unlock EaP potential

New EU4Digital country-specific roadmaps for 5G private networks offer strategic guidance tailored to Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. A comprehensive catalogue of 5G Private Networks use cases accompanies these roadmaps, drawing upon successful implementations from EU Member States. All these reports are available in the EU4Digital website Library.

EU4Digital’s parallel text project lays foundations for improved translation tools

The EU4Digital Initiative concluded ‘Parallel Text Corpora Inventory in EU Candidate Countries’ project, which delivered an inventory, report and recommendations to strengthen multilingual digital tools that bridge language and data gaps for selected EU candidate countries. This has laid the foundations for improved machine translation of their languages, to support their digital and legal integration into the broader European ecosystem.

EU strengthens cybersecurity support for Ukraine and Moldova

Since strengthening the cyber defence of partner countries was identified as a priority in the EC and EU High Representative’s new International Digital Strategy in June, both Moldova and Ukraine have been granted access to the EU Cybersecurity Reserve — a key advance in regional security and cooperation.