Call for proposals

2020 CEF Telecom call - BlockChain (CEF-TC-2020-1) CEF-TC-2020-1-BlockChain Open!

The blockchain DSI will lay the foundations for:

allowing the Member States to exploit registries and databases and share secure and trusted access to information and transactions recorded through those registries and databases in (almost) real time, in a secure and trusted way, whilst reducing the overall costs of such processes for individual Member States and for the EU as a whole.
providing a permissioned blockchain solution to be used by the national administrations that is fully compliant with the EU acquis, ensuring in particular compliance with the Directive on security of network and information systems (NIS), the eIDAS Regulation, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Under this call, proposals to be funded must address at least two of the following objectives:

EBSI infrastructure development and operations
Support to the acquisition of services and applications for participation of the Member State in one or more EBSI cross-border use-case
EBSI capacity building and training activities

The Community provisional funding available for the call for proposals is:

Opened to the following bodies or institutes with legal status established in the covered areas:

Bodies or institutes must have their registered legal seat in one of the countries taking part in the Programme which are:

Directorate-General for Energy and Transport