The digital part of the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF Digital) will support and catalyse both public and private investments in digital connectivity infrastructures between 2021 and 2027.
CEF Digital will contribute to increased capacity and resilience of digital backbone infrastructures in all EU territories, in particular the Outermost Regions. This is crucial for Europe’s ambition to continue being digitally sovereign and independent in the years to come.
If you want to apply for CEF fund you will need a “Letter of Support” from the member states involved in or affected by the project. Get your process started early if you want to apply for CEF funds. Drafting of a Letter of Support by Danish authorities can take time - up to several weeks, especially if it has a cross-border dimension and if a security guarantee is needed.
The Agency for Digital Government assists projects that wish to submit a grant application under the CEF-2 Digital programme with authority coordination. In order to receive a Letter of Support, you must submit a short project description to the agency.
Your project description must be approximately one to three pages in which you provide:
• a short description of the project and its purpose,
• a description of how the project meets the requirements set by the EU Commission in relation to the specific initiative. The requirements are described in the work programme for CEF-2 Digital as well as in the dedicated call document relevant for your particular project (various call documents can be found on the right),
• a description of why the implementation of project should be prioritized,
• an overview of any business partners (nationally and possibly other EU countries), and
• a clarification of whether the project is exclusively national or cross-border.
Send the above-mentioned project description to the agency, in order for us to:
• Coordinate between relevant authorities in order to prepare a Letter of Support.
• Coordinate between relevant authorities in order to prepare a security guarantee, if needed.
As part of the project proposal, the agency must approve that the project is eligible to apply for EU funding.
• This is done through a Letter of Support which can involve several authorities.
• For some projects a security guarantee is required.
• The Danish Resilience Agency needs to be involved if the project includes providers of electronic communication networks or services that are subject to The Danish Resilience Agency’s regulation in the telecommunications area.
• If the project is cross-border, the agency will have to engage in dialogue with the relevant foreign authorities in order to sign a Letter of Support.
Title: Main contact
Email: tele@digst.dk
