1st Connecting Europe Facility Digital Calls - Info Day

The event is meant to prepare applicants to draft the best possible proposals.

Access the Info Day

Agenda:

• Welcome
• Priorities of the Calls (topics):
  • 5G Corridors and 5G Coordination and Support Actions
  • 5G for Smart communities
  • Cloud federations and DNS
  • Digital Global Gateways
  • Operational digital platforms - Programme Support Action
• Q&A

Break

• Evaluation Process and Award Criteria
• Preparing a Successful Proposal
• The Application Process
• Q&A

Slido for Q&A session

Slido event code: #CEFDigital

2021-2025 work programme

Background:

With a total available budget of EUR 258M, the first calls for CEF Digital managed by HaDEA were launched on 12 January 2022 and cover the following areas:

5G for Smart Communities (EUR 25M)

• Works

5G Coverage along Transport Corridors (EUR 106M)

• Works (EUR 100M)
• Studies (EUR 6M)

Backbone networks for pan-European Cloud federation (EUR 80M)

• Interconnection of backbone networks for Cloud federations – Works (EUR 65M)
• Interconnection of Cloud federations with other Cloud, HPC and edge infrastructures – Studies (EUR 1M)
• Equipping backbone networks with high-performance and secure DNS resolution infrastructures – Works (EUR 14M)

Backbone connectivity for Digital Global Gateways (EUR 40M)

• Works (EUR 30M)
• Studies (EUR 10M)

Coordination and Support Actions (EUR 7M)

• Preparation of works for Operational digital platforms (EUR 4M)
• 5G Strategic Deployment Agenda coordination (EUR 1M)
• Integration of 5G corridors and 5G communities with edge computing and federated cloud facilities (EUR 2M)