Lithuania Digital Decade 2026: Infrastructure, AI and Skills

The European Commission published the Digital Decade 2026 country report for Lithuania (SWD(2026)155 annex), assessing progress against Digital Decade targets and issuing recommendations.

• Main assessment and actions: The Commission finds near-universal 5G coverage (99.7%), VHCN/FTTP coverage at ~79% (rural VHCN 38.23%), and reports the planned LitAI AI Factory (sovereign AI infrastructure) to be operational from 2027 with full sectoral services by late 2027–early 2028; it documents completed and ongoing projects including an RRF project connecting 5 000 socio-economic entities (approx. 1 400 km fibre) completed on 30 April 2026, and two CEF quantum projects PIONIER-Q-SAT and Lat-LitQN launched in early 2026.
• Additional details and timelines: The report lists funding and instruments (digital RRP allocation EUR 688 million; Lithuania allocates 23% of its RRP to digital = ~EUR 0.7 billion; cohesion policy EUR 0.3 billion to digital), announces Baltic Innovation Fund 3 (BIF 3) EUR 225 million (aiming to mobilise up to EUR 700 million) launched Feb 2026, a planned EUR 250 million Scale-Up Fund, targeted AI schemes totalling EUR 22.5 million, and concrete cybersecurity timelines for post-quantum migration (high-risk systems by 1 Jan 2031; all cybersecurity entities by 2036).