The CEF Building Blocks at the ICT Proposers Day 2019, Blockchain and Context Broker Grant Funding
On 19-20 September 2019, the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Building Blocks were presented at the Digital Excellence Forum @ ICT Proposers' Day 2019.
This leading EU digital event provided an excellent opportunity for those present to discuss the main policy drivers of the digital transformation of European industry and society and how the EU research and innovation agenda can best contribute to these objectives.
Concerning the CEF Building Blocks, participants were informed about the European Blockchain Services Infrastructure (EBSI), which will deliver EU-wide cross-border public services leveraging blockchain technology (EBSI will soon be a fully operational CEF Building Block).
Blockchain is a form of distributed ledger technology that creates an unchangeable ledger of records maintained by a decentralised network. The EBSI Building Block will provide reusable software, specifications and services to support adoption by European public administrations and by EU institutions. To keep updated on the progress of EBSI, subscribe to the regular newsflash.
ICT Participants learn about the benefits of Blockchain technologies
In addition, participants were particularly interested in CEF grant funding. In the period 2014-19, In this time, CEF provided an unprecedented level of funding at €30 billion (with €28.8 billion in grants). In the area of telecommunications (including the CEF Building Blocks), approximately €75.3 million in CEF funding was awarded to 128 actions.
Until 14 November 2019, you can respond to the CEF Public Open Data call for proposals. This call offers funding for the generation of cross-border and/or cross-domain services re-using information made discoverable/available through the European Data Portal (which harvests the metadata of Public Sector Information available on public data portals across European countries), in combination with other sources of information.
In the case of actions addressing real-time data, the use of the CEF Context Broker Building Block should be the privileged solution (where appropriate). Learn more about how you can get funding for the CEF Context Broker in the CEF Public Open Data call.