5G Strategic Deployment Agenda coordination

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

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

Identifier Code

CEF-DIG-2021-TA-5GAGENDA

Call

5G Strategic Deployment Agenda coordination

Summary

The CSA will – in close cooperation with the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking – coordinate the development of 5G Strategic Deployment Agendas in the area of 5G for CAM. This includes the development of deployment roadmaps, cooperation models and regulatory approaches.
Related objectives include the achievement of common deployment approaches among projects in view of a consistent deployment of 5G Corridors across the EU, monitoring and reporting on deployment progress, and the build-up of a pipeline of future projects to be funded by CEF.

Detailed Call Description

The proposal should cover the following activities:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Support and coordination to the building of project pipelines for CEF funding and community building, across sectors and cross-border.
  4. 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.
  5. 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).
  6. Performance evaluation across CEF-funded 5G corridor deployment projects and assessment of legal and regulatory constraints.
  7. 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.
  8. 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).

Call Total Budget

€1,000,000

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

100%

Thematic Categories

  • Information Technology
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Central Government
  • International Organisations
  • State-owned Enterprises

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)

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