CEF Digital promotes the deployment of cross-border and national cloud, edge and HPC infrastructure interconnections to enable distributed, secure, energy-efficient and high-speed cloud services for EU citizens and businesses.

Projects funded under the Cloud Call aim to:

• Cope with the latest digital and sustainability challenges, in particular:
  • Enable the industrial and low power processing of large amounts of data;
  • Foster a swift and sustainable uptake of emerging technologies;
  • Support the operationalisation of data spaces and specific use cases for socio economic drivers.
• Respond dynamically to the needs of beneficiaries by providing data processing and storage capacities across the EU.
• Allow effective access to resources through a high-performance Domain Name Server (DNS) resolution, infrastructure, supporting use cases, conforming to the latest security and privacy standards.

The first-wave projects will focus on the development of cross-border and national cloud infrastructure interconnections at both the physical (i.e. very high capacity networks) and functional levels (i.e. management systems, software-defined infrastructures and DNS resolution) which will ensure distributed, secure, energy-efficient and high-speed connectivity.

How to participate

There are no specific eligibility conditions concerning consortium composition for this topic, however non-EU controlled entities are strictly excluded.

Open calls are published on the Funding & Tenders Portal and more details are available in the Call text.

Awarded projects

Browse EU-funded projects on the Funding & Tenders portal and get inspired.