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5G Strategic Deployment Agenda coordination

Summary

The Connecting Europe Facility is a key EU funding instrument to promote growth, jobs and competitiveness through infrastructure investment at European level.

Programme Name

Connecting Europe Facility

Programme Description

The Connecting Europe Facility is a key EU funding instrument to promote growth, jobs and competitiveness through infrastructure investment at European level.

Programme Details

Call

5G Strategic Deployment Agenda coordination

Detailed Call Description

The proposal should cover the following activities:

  • Support to the organisation of stakeholder engagement activities, involving, amongst others mobile network operators, operators deploying infrastructure and associated facilities such as tower companies, telecom backhaul operators, road operators, rail infrastructure managers, automotive manufacturers, and mobility service providers, including SNS working group secretariat, workshops, information days, seminars, conferences and online social networks.
  • Proactive outreach to stakeholders and public authorities to stimulate interest in proposal submission to CEF Digital calls in line with deployment roadmap and planned project pipeline.
  • Support and coordination to the building of project pipelines for CEF funding and community building, across sectors and cross-border.
  • Gather and develop information among projects in terms of corridor length, mode of transport, service requirements for safety and non-safety services, technologies and systems including edge nodes, overall costs and funding, etc.
  • Elaboration of best practices of CEF-funded studies within 5G corridor preparation and CEF-funded deployment projects to cover common challenges (e.g. cross-border CAM business continuity, local breakout).
  • Performance evaluation across CEF-funded 5G corridor deployment projects and assessment of legal and regulatory constraints.
  • Progress monitoring of 5G corridor deployment projects, including geographic mapping of EU and non EU-funded 5G corridor projects and facilitate reporting with the European 5G Observatory.
  • Liaison with European regulatory authorities such as the Body of European Regulators in Electronic Communications (BEREC), European agencies such as the European Rail Agency, public-private-partnerships implementing EU funding programmes such as the Smart Network and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS) and the Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility PPP (CCAM).
  • Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

    100%

    Eligibility For Participation Notes

    In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

    • be legal entities (public or private bodies)
    • be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
      • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
    Programme Category
    EU Competitive Programmes
    Total Budget
    €1,000,000
    Thematic Categories
    • Information Technology
    • Research, Technological Development and Innovation
    Eligibility for Participation
    • Central Government
    • International Organisations
    • State-owned Enterprises
    Call Opening Date
    12/01/2022
    Call Closing Date
    22/03/2022
    National Contact Point(s)

    Department of Electronic Communications – State Department for Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
    https://bit.ly/39IYcFZ
    286 Strovolou Avenue, Strovolos
    Correspondence Address: PO Box 24647, 1302 Nicosia
    Telephone: +357 22814854/22814846
    Fax: +357 22321925
    Electr. Address: info.dec@dec.dmrid.gov.cy
    Contact person:
    Mr. Nikos Ioannou
    Electronic Communications Officer
    Telephone: +357 22814875
    Fax: +357 22321925
    Electr. Address: nioannou@dec.dmrid.gov.cy

    (Publish Date: 12/01/2022-for internal use only)

    EU Contact Point

    European Health and Digital Executive Agency:

    https://hadea.ec.europa.eu/index_en

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