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.
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