This is the third round of calls under the first CEF Digital work programme, which allocates 1 billion euros for 2021-2023 to improve Europe's infrastructure for digital connectivity.

CEF Digital: European funds for digital infrastructure

CEF Digital supports interventions to:

• build 5G infrastructure in Europe, particularly 5G coverage along cross-border corridors and 5G for smart communities;
• build new backbone networks or achieve significant improvement of existing backbone networks, including cloud federations, ultra-secure quantum communication infrastructures, and submarine cables, in order to improve the performance of electronic communication networks withi