CEF Building Blocks Presented at the EEN ICT Sector Group Meeting, Torino
European Commission, 2017
On Thursday 6 April 2017, the European Commission presented the building blocks of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), as well as grant funding available to support the adoption of the CEF building blocks, to the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) ICT Sector Group.
The CEF building blocks (CEF eID, eDelivery, eInvoicing, eSignature & eTranslation) enable secure cross-border digital interactions between citizens, businesses and public administrations. In practical terms they are common solutions to common problems built on common standards and specifications, agreed upon by the EU Member States.
In addition to the development and maintenance of the CEF building blocks, grant funding is provided by the Connecting Europe Facility to cover implementation costs. A €1.04 billion budget is earmarked for trans-European digital services for 2014-2020. The European Commission's Innovation & Networks Executive Agency (INEA) is organising a number of calls for proposals in 2017, as outlined in the graph below:
Finally, the European Commission presented the CEF Dashboard. The Dashboard provides an overview of the progress, quality and uptake of the Digital Service Infrastructures of the CEF. Recently, the European Commission published updated figures for the last quarter of 2016. This included new datasets for the European e-Justice Portal, eSignature and numerous fix and tweaks.
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- Download the CEF building blocks presentation here
- Download the INEA Presentation here
- Discover the building blocks on the CEF Digital 2018 website here
- Visit the Enterprise Europe Network here
- Visit the CEF Dashboard and see the latest data published here