# Apply AI Strategy

- **Record type**: Policy instrument
- **Jurisdiction**: European Union
- **Instrument type**: National strategy
- **Status**: Adopted
- **Binding**: No — guidance, strategy or standard
- **Issuing body**: European Commission (DG CONNECT)
- **Adopted**: 2025-10-08

## In brief

Apply AI Strategy is a non-binding national strategy of the European Union, issued by the European Commission (DG CONNECT). It was adopted on 8 October 2025. Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Every record here links to its official source and states its verification status.

## Summary

The Apply AI Strategy is a Commission communication that sets out how the EU intends to speed up use of AI across ten strategic sectors (such as healthcare, manufacturing, energy, mobility and defence) and in public administration. It combines sectoral flagship initiatives with cross-cutting support such as AI Factories, testing facilities and skills measures, and creates an Apply AI Alliance to coordinate industry, academia and public bodies. It sits within the broader AI Continent Action Plan and was presented together with a companion AI in Science strategy.

## Scope

Scope is as set out in the official text linked below. Issued by European Commission (DG CONNECT). Oversight: European Commission, coordinated through the Apply AI Alliance stakeholder forum. Stated purpose: Accelerate AI adoption in EU industry and the public sector to boost competitiveness and technological sovereignty.

## Key dates

2025-10-08: Commission presents the Apply AI Strategy and AI in Science Strategy

## Notes on dates

Only the announcement or adoption date is recorded from the source; in-force and application dates are to be confirmed by a reviewer.

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-POL-0074 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0074; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/eu-apply-ai-strategy
- **Official source**: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/apply-ai
- **Source document**: Apply AI Strategy
- **Published by**: European Commission, Shaping Europe's digital future
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Apply AI Strategy" [AIPT-POL-0074, record version 1, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-POL-0074 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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