Alignment of stakeholders towards the supply-side large-scale pilot of end-to-end infrastructures integrating device, network computing and communication capabilities (CSA)
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Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
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Call
Summary
The CSA governance mechanism is expected to consolidate priorities and align strategies between demand and supply sides for key infrastructure services, while coordinating with EU policies such as the White Paper. It will oversee the delivery of open-source Telco Edge Cloud building blocks aligned with industrial and European initiatives (IPCEI-CIS, Sylva, Anuket, Nephio, CAMARA), ensuring continuous feedback between vertical sectors and supply-side pilots. By providing a European alternative to multinational-led platforms, the project will serve as a forum for consultation with demand-side actors, while also identifying paradigm shifts in areas such as virtual worlds, mobility, and energy. Furthermore, it will assess opportunities for monetising edge computing, ensuring interoperability and advancing innovation across dynamic content delivery, AI adoption, and the telco-cloud-edge-IoT continuum.
Detailed Call Description
The expected scope of the CSA for this governance mechanism to function would be the following:
- Consolidate priorities and maximise benefits across different demand perspectives and timelines for key infrastructure services to be implemented.
- Ensure alignment of demand and supply side strategies and roadmaps, in line with (and contributing to) the White Paper on communication infrastructures and other relevant EU policy.
- Ensure coordination and integration of the work of the actions on the supply side pilot and the Open Internet Stack.
- Open-source delivery of Telco Edge Cloud building blocks by the supply side pilot, which will be the foreseen backbone to articulate the cooperation among supply- and demand-side LSPs.
- These open-source modules should be aligned with industrial interests and where appropriate with common European building blocks including with the developments at IPCEI-CIS Telco Edge Cloud community initiatives (e.g. Sylva, Anuket, Nephio and CAMARA).
- The demand-side developments in the relevant verticals will offer a continuous feedback loop to the supply side endeavours, while they will benefit from the progressive developments of the supply LSP.
- Provide a foundation for exploitation of European technology developed under the 3C initiative as an alternative to the platforms led by large multinationals. The project should provide a forum for consultation and input of the demand-side application sectors and verticals into the development of the supply-side architecture and building blocks.
- Identification of paradigms shifts evolving in relevant vertical domains like virtual worlds as a driver for emerging network virtualisation and performance as well as vertical services like mobility, communities or energy.
- Assessment of monetising edge computing, interoperability of middleware and SW framework through trend scouting on markets, value chains and ecosystems in the area of dynamic content delivery, AI adoption for telco operation and edge computing, convergence across the telco-cloud-edge- IoT continuum.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Expected EU contribution per project: between €1.80 and €2.50 million.
Thematic Categories
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Information Technology
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Telecommunications
Eligibility for Participation
- Businesses
- Educational Institutions
- Large Enterprises
- Legal Entities
- NGOs
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Eligibility For Participation Notes
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects.
Participation is limited to legal entities established in Member States, Iceland and Norway and associated countries.+
For the duly justified and exceptional reasons listed in the paragraph above, in order to guarantee the protection of the strategic interests of the Union and its Member States, entities established in an eligible country listed above, but which are directly or indirectly controlled by a non-eligible country or by a non-eligible country entity, shall not participate in the action.
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National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Persons to Contact:
Dr Angelos Ntantos
Scientific Officer
Email: antantos@research.org.cy
Mr. George Christou
Scientific Officer
Email: gchristou@research.org.cy