HaDEA to showcase success stories and provide insights on funding opportunities at MWC2025

HaDEA is gearing up for the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025, happening from 3 to 6 March at Fira Gran via in Barcelona.

As the world’s biggest event for the mobile communications industry, MWC brings together over 100 000 companies, government representatives, investors, and startups for conferences, workshops and exciting exhibitions.

Find us at Hall 6, Stand 6G8, where our project management specialists will be on hand to discuss and respond enquiries on funding opportunities and share insights on EU programmes supporting the mobile industry.

We will also connect with ongoing projects funded through Connecting Europe Facility − Digital, Horizon Europe, Horizon 2020, and the Digital Europe Programme, making this a great opportunity to exchange ideas and explore future collaborations.

Don’t miss out−see you at the MWC2025!

The Projects 

CEF Digital 

• 5GMHI aims to explore how 5G technology can meet the increasing healthcare needs of an aging population over the next 20 years in Stockholm. It seeks to enhance patient safety, quality, and communication within a mobile healthcare context by utilising advanced 5G services. The focus will be on emergency medical services, using 5G video communication to optimise resources and improve patient care with tools like drones and ambulance-mounted cameras. 
• TUKE 5GSC deploys private 5G network elements at a university campus in Slovakia to take teaching and research to the next level. It will enable the local and national business community to optimise production processes and energy consumption, and to become smarter, more efficient, resilient, and able to adapt according to the evolving needs of citizens, the environment and the economy and society at large. 
• 5G4LIVES is an initiative implemented across 2 geographic clusters: Latvia and Italy. The project aims to leverage 5G connectivity and other innovative technologies, such as UAVs (or drones) and alternative hydrogen power, to enhance public safety and environmental health. At its core, the project seeks to enable optimal emergency management and data-driven forecasting, a mission encompassing the entirety of public safety. Through the dynamic fusion of 5G connectivity and UAVs, this initiative aims to provide real-time aerial situational awareness and automatic vulnerability assessment for at-risk areas. The project's scope extends beyond traditional rescue operations, pushing the boundaries of innovation to safeguard both human lives and the environment.  

• 5GENIUS is the outcome of a cooperation between Citymesh and the University College of Ghent (HOGENT) to roll-out a 5G network and service. It seeks to address the growing need for high-speed connectivity on campus and provide HOGENT with cutting-edge network services supporting businesses and start-ups, students, and researchers. 

• 5G CDD (5G Connect Danube Delta) aims to deploy 5G connectivity for users in the remote and less densely populated Danube Delta region of Romania, aiming to boost social, business, and governmental development. The focus is on installing 5G New Radio technology and updating necessary infrastructure. Additionally, the project involves outlining and conducting test scenarios for the 5G network to enable certain Socio-Economic Drivers (SEDs), with case studies in critical areas such as healthcare, education, tourism, and environmental monitoring.  
• BALTCOR5G seeks to ensure uninterrupted and continuous 5G coverage along the Baltic cross-border sections of the corridor, by deploying infrastructure in areas where the market has failed to invest. Their goal is to deploy 5G infrastructure and C-v2x infrastructure connecting cross border road corridor sections to enable high quality seamless network coverage and handover. 
• MEDCOR5G aims to ensure uninterrupted and continuous 5G coverage along the cross-border sections of the Mediterranean corridor, by deploying infrastructure in areas where the market has failed to invest in the deployment of valuable passive/active infrastructure. 
• 5GSITACOR’s main objective is to assess the technical requirements needed to fully provide the TEN-T Mediterranean and Baltic – Adriatic corridors, especially cross-border sections, between Friuli Venezia Giulia Region (Italy) and the Republic of Slovenia, with a neutral, agnostic passive and active infrastructure dedicated to the development of digital services, in particular, with respect to the deployment of safe, secure and sustainable high-performance infrastructure, including Gigabit and 5G networks.
• Private 5G network Oulu will establish a secure and state-of-the-art 5G infrastructure for advanced wireless healthcare solutions in Oulu University Hospital (OYS,POHDE) in Finland, with a specific focus on wearable technologies incorporating augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR).

DIGITAL 

• DigiAdvance responds to evidenced digital skills gaps, shortages, and mismatches in specialised technology areas such as blockchain, big data, and machine learning among SMEs. The project is designing and teaching regional digital skills courses for SME employees in local languages. Courses are complemented by a pan-European digital skills accelerator workshop series for business leaders. 

Horizon 2020 

• Möbius has been modernising the European book publishing industry by remodelling the traditional value chains and business models. It developed software tools that allow the production of new immersive and interactive book experiences, as 3D audio and binaural reproduction to improve the reading experience. 

Horizon Europe 

• 5G-TIMBER is developing 5G-enabled use cases (UCs) to accelerate the twin green and digital transformation of the wood manufacturing and construction sector. The aim is to help SME end-users optimise workflows, reduce waste, and improve safety, while strengthening the entire wood value chain.  
• AC3 is developing an agile framework to efficiently manage data in the cloud-edge computing continuum that will play a critical role in increasing service scalability, agility, and effectiveness. With a microservice architecture, it will be able to adapt to different network contexts and events, such as lack of resources, data deluge or movement of data sources. 
• COGNIT is establishing a new distributed function-as-a-service (FaaS) paradigm for edge application management and smart orchestration. This AI-powered adaptive serverless framework will provide secure and portable access to a continuous data processing environment that abstracts the large scale, geo-distributed, and low latency capabilities provided by the cloud-edge continuum. 
• Vitamin-V is deploying a complete RISC-V hardware-software stack for cloud services based on innovative cloud open-source technologies for RISC-V cores with a special focus on European Processor Initiative cores. It incorporates an innovative RISC-V virtual execution environment providing hardware emulation and simulation. 
• Zero-SWARM is aiming to accelerate the uptake of advanced 5G technologies by European manufacturing sector. It seeks to achieve climate neutral and digitised production via a multidisciplinary, human centric, objective oriented innovative approach resulting in technical solutions for open swarm framework, non-public 5G network, active information continuum and digital twin.
• SPIDER is at the forefront of the EU and Latin America and the Caribbean collaboration in digital transformation and R&I. The project aims to support the implementation of the outcomes of EU-LAC digital dialogues, to stimulate the development of digital partnerships for R&I cooperation in areas that can benefit from the high-capacity interconnectivity provided by the BELLA network, and to promote an inclusive and human-centric digital transformation.

Background  

CEF Digital will help support an unprecedented amount of investments devoted to safe, secure, and sustainable high-performance infrastructure. In particular, Gigabit and 5G networks across the EU. This action will be important in supporting Europe's digital transformation, as outlined in the Path to the Digital Decade proposal. Furthermore, CEF Digital will contribute to the increased capacity and resilience of digital backbone infrastructures in all EU territories, in particular the Outermost Regions. This is crucial for Europe's ambition to continue being digitally sovereign and independent in the years to come.  

Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) aims to build the strategic digital capacities of the EU and to facilitate the wide deployment of digital technologies. With an overall budget of €7.5 billion, out of which €0.8 billion is managed by HaDEA, the programme will support investments in the following sectors:  

• High Performance Computing 
• Cloud, data, and Artificial Intelligence 
• Cybersecurity 
• Advanced digital skills  
• Accelerating best use of technologies 

Horizon 2020 was the EU’s multiannual funding programme between 2014 and 2020. H2020 provided Research and Innovation (R&I) funding for multi-national collaboration projects alongside individual researchers and SMEs via special funding instruments. Horizon 2020 is succeeded by the Horizon Europe Programme, which will run until 2027.