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CEF – 5G large scale pilots – 2025

CEF - The Connecting Europe Facility programme aims at promoting growth, jobs, and competitiveness through infrastructure investment.

2025-02-13
105 million euro
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Appeal framework

Call reference CEF-DIG-2024-5GLSP
Program Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)
Institution European Commission
Sectors Energy Environment & Climate Research & Innovation Technology & Digital
Beneficiaries EU & International Organisation Large company (> 250 employees) Smes & Start-Ups (< 249 Employees) State administration & affiliated entities

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Call reference

CEF-DIG-2024-5GLSP



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Priorities and funded actions

Objective

To deploy large-scale 5G SA infrastructures that integrate connectivity and edge cloud capacities along the 3C Network value chain.

Priorities

  • Priority 1: To stimulate a wider and faster deployment and take-up of 5G across Europe, while providing the foundation for developing ‘lead markets’ for 5G and edge cloud systems
  • Priority 2: To demonstrate the benefits gained in specific vertical applications, following the evolution from current electronic communications networks towards virtualised and cloud-native network functions and distributed telco edge cloud, opening new opportunities to Europe’s key industries
  • Priority 3: To leverage 5G infrastructures delivering leading-edge connectivity characteristics e.g.: symmetric gigabit performance, high-user-density, ubiquitous coverage (e.g. to connect IoT devices), low latency and very high reliability
  • Priority 4: To encourage large-scale pilots to cover multiple use cases, cross-sector synergies between multiple use cases are expected to be enabled by 5G SA, supporting local smart communities and connecting multiple sites distributed across multiple countries and regions
  • Priority 5: To design large-scale T− 5G SA pilots in a way that, with adaptations due to possible different requirements, they can be replicated across Europe

Among financed actions

  • Deployment of passive network elements including civil works, e.g., ducts, dark fibre, 5G radio stations, towers, masts and/or pylons
  • Deployment and installation of active network elements, e.g., antennae, storage and computing capabilities such as network controllers, routers, switches, edge MEC/node etc.
  • Deployment and installation of specific tracks-ide devices (e.g., road, rail) for CAM use cases, such as sensors, cameras etc. for traffic monitoring purposes, including connected road-side units
  • Studies for preparatory works to be deployed as part of proposed works within the same application, such as network planning

Eligibility

  • Be a legal person
  • Be a public or private entity
  • Be established in one of the eligible countries:
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
    • Non-EU states: listed EEA countries and countries associated to the CEF Programme (Click here)
  • A consortium composed of
    • at least 2 entities, established in at least 2 different EU Member States or associated countries to the programme (see details on the call document) must be constituted (CEF-DIG-2024-5GLSP-CORRIDORS-WORKS)
    • at least 2 entities which complies different conditions (see details on the call document) must be constituted (CEF-DIG-2024-5GLSP-SMARTCOM-WORKS)

Additional information

  • Initial duration of the action: 36 months
  • Contact: HADEA-HP-CALLS@ec.europa.eu

Useful

Financement
  • Total budget of the call: 105 million euro
  • Total budget per topic:
    • CEF-DIG-2024-5GLSP-CORRIDORS-WORKS: 52.500.000 euro
    • CEF-DIG-2024-5GLSP-SMARTCOM-WORKS: 52.500.000 euro
  • Amount of the grant: between 10 million euro and 20 million euro
  • Funding rate:
    • CEF-DIG-2024-5GLSP-CORRIDORS-WORKS: between 30% and 70% of the total eligible costs
    • CEF-DIG-2024-5GLSP-SMARTCOM-WORKS: up to 75% of the total eligible costs

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