AI Continent Action Plan
The AI Continent Action Plan represents a strategic shift in the European Commission’s approach to AI, emphasizing industrial competitiveness alongside regulation. In April 2025, the European Commission published the Plan, setting out its ambition for the European Union to become a global leader in Artificial Intelligence.
The communication from the Commission outlined a series of initiatives, including the rollout of AI Factories and Gigafactories, investments in cloud and data centre capacity, and measures to accelerate and facilitate AI adoption across sectors.
The observatory monitors how EU institutions translate the vision of Europe becoming a “leading AI continent” into practice. It focuses on public investment and industrial policy instruments, analyzing their implications for AI development and public digital infrastructure in Europe.
