Specific Objective 5
Deployment: accelerating best use of technologies
Ensuring a wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society will contribute to reaching the EU’s ambition of the twin digital and green transition.
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About this programme
About the programme
The roll-out and best use of digital capacities focuses on priority areas such as the Green Deal, support to SMEs and public authorities in their digital transformation and will also provide resources to those activities started in previous programmes, for which the continuations of funding is essential not to disrupt the services provided.
Areas of activities include:
- The deployment and enhancement of the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI) set up in the context of CEF Telecommunications Programme (2014-2020), deployment of use cases as well as a regulatory sandbox for Blockchain standardisation.
- The deployment of public services, including the digitalisation of governments and public administrations, focusing on preparing a European Identity and Trust Ecosystem, leveraging public procurement for digitalisation and innovation, enhancing the interoperability of public services, and the digital transformation of justice.
- Confidence in digital transformation, including initiatives to make the internet a safer environment for children, addressing disinformation in the media, and accelerating energy transition.
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The OpenVerse project aims at integrating knowledge, experts and actors around the creation of inclusive, open and ethically responsible European Virtual Worlds. This is done in alignment with the European Commission’s strategy on Web 4.0 and Virtual Worlds. As part its work, OpenVerse is conducting a landscaping exercise of initiatives... read more
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Applications open: third cohort of the European Blockchain Sandbox
The European Blockchain Sandbox has opened its third round of calls for innovative use cases involving Distributed Ledger Technologies. Public entities and private sector companies in the European Economic Area, including start up and scale-ups, can now apply for the third cohort of the European Blockchain Sandbox with innovative use case proj... read more
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Procurement: Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Platform – EU Coordination
The European Commission (DG CONNECT) has launched the following procurement procedure: Better Internet for Kids (BIK) Platform – EU Coordination (EC-CNECT/LUX/2024/OP/0097) The EU-funded Better Internet for Kids portal (at https://better-internet-for-kids.europa.eu) and the associated coordination tasks are the main subject of th... read more
Digital, Industry & Space Cybersecurity Deployment: Best use of technologies
CEF-Digital calls are now open
€ 323 million is available for co-funding the deployment of digital connectivity infrastructures. 5G Large scale pilots (large scale 5G stand-alone infrastructure), with a budget of €105 million. Backbone connectivity for Digital Global Gateways (mainly submarine and terrestrial cables), with €128 million for studies and works.... read more
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GLAUKOS - Circular Solution for the Textile Industry
Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant coordinated the Glaukos project, which answered the call topic published in 2019 of Horizon 2020 Framework Programme ‘Develop bio-based fibres and/or functional molecules to improve the performance of textile products’ under the Framework of the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU). The consortium partners took up this challenge by valorising industrial side streams and setting up a circular approach to the textile industry.
