The European Commission and a consortium led by Telef\u00f3nica and comprising more than 70 European entities have unveiled EURO-3C, the first pan-European sovereign infrastructure integrating Telco, Edge, Cloud and AI capabilities under a federated, open and secure model, designed to accelerate Europe\u2019s digital and industrial transformation. This \u20ac 75Mn project is funded by the European Commission\u2019s Horizon Europe programme.<\/p>\n
The announcement took place today at the Telef\u00f3nica stand at MWC26 and was attended by Renate Nikolay, Deputy Director General at the European Commission, and Juan Montero, Director of Public Policy, Competition & Regulatory Officer at Telefonica , marking an important milestone in the consolidation of a strategic European digital infrastructure.<\/p>\n
EURO-3C is aligned with the priorities of the European Union\u2019s Digital Decade Policy Programme 2030, which places secure and sustainable digital infrastructures as one of its strategic pillars.<\/p>\n
Infrastructure in production for strategic sectors<\/p>\n
EURO-3C deploys a federated multi-telco and multi-vendor infrastructure in production environments, with more than 70 Edge and Cloud nodes distributed in more than 13 European countries.<\/p>\n
This network makes it possible to offer advanced digital services with high standards of performance, interoperability and security, responding to critical needs in the automotive, transport, energy and public safety sectors, among others.<\/p>\n
Federation, scale and impact<\/p>\n
The project is supported by three differential elements:<\/p>\n
-Federation: an interoperable architecture that connects existing capabilities of multiple operators and cloud providers in a common European framework.<\/p>\n
-Pan-European industrial scale: collaboration between operators, industry, technology suppliers, SMEs and research centres.<\/p>\n
-Validated impact: nine high business value use cases that will demonstrate real applicability and scalability.<\/p>\n
EURO-3C also integrates advanced AI-enabled orchestration capabilities and interoperable services, ensuring a resilient, efficient infrastructure that is ready to take on the challenges of the next decade.<\/p>\n
Renate Nikolay, Deputy Director General at the European Commission, said: \u201cThe European Commission strongly promotes secure digital communication infrastructures made in Europe, aiming to make the most of telco-edge-cloud convergence, with and for AI. The EU-funded project EURO-3C announced today federates the efforts of a very large number of European players around a common goal: to build a secure and sovereign convergent communications landscape, for the benefit of industrial sectors supplying and using technology, and for society at large.\u201d<\/p>\n
Juan Montero, Director of Public Policy, Competition and Regulation at Telef\u00f3nica said: \u201cThe European Union has made technological sovereignty and industrial competitiveness a priority. Achieving this requires not only advanced digital infrastructures, but also strong collaboration across sectors and countries. And the telecommunications sector is a key player in this effort. This is precisely what EURO 3C aims to deliver: a European scale cooperative computing network that brings together telco capabilities, connectivity, Edge and Cloud, all enhanced with AI. It is a shared effort to reinforce Europe\u2019s industrial leadership and lay the foundations for true digital sovereignty.\u201d<\/p>\n
A collective European effort<\/p>\n
EURO-3C brings together more than 70 entities, including telecoms operators, cloud providers, technology manufacturers, SMEs, universities, research centres and large industrial companies, consolidating a cooperation model that strengthens European technological capacity in key parts of the digital value chain.<\/p>\n
The event also featured Sebas Muriel, Chief Digital Officer of Telef\u00f3nica, who outlined the strategic vision and mission of the initiative. Representatives from other consortium members \u2014 including Vodafone, Ericsson and the Spanish SME Nearby Computing \u2014 also took the floor to share their perspectives.<\/p>\n
The following entities are beneficiaries of the project: Telef\u00f3nica \u2013 Eurescom \u2013 British Telecom \u2013 Capgemini \u2013 Citymesh \u2013 Deutsche Telekom \u2013 Elisa \u2013 Engineering \u2013 Ericsson \u2013 Ionos \u2013 IDC \u2013 KPN \u2013 MEO \u2013 Nokia \u2013 Orange \u2013 OVH \u2013 Suse \u2013 Swisscom \u2013 Fastweb \u2013 Telenor \u2013 TIM \u2013 Thales \u2013 Vodafone \u2013 Fogus \u2013 Krateo -Martel \u2013 Nearby \u2013 Nextworks \u2013 OpenNebula \u2013 Real Wireless \u2013 Scille \u2013 Sedicii \u2013 Ubitech \u2013 Wings \u2013 CTTC \u2013 F. Bruno Kessler \u2013 Fraunhofer \u2013 IMEC \u2013 INRIA \u2013 ITAV \u2013 POLITO \u2013 PCSS \u2013 TNO \u2013 UC3M \u2013 UOULU \u2013 ECSO \u2013 ETSI \u2013 PSCE \u2013 AIT \u2013 Bavarian Red Cross \u2013 ITTI \u2013 Frequentis \u2013 Meditech \u2013 Stellantis \u2013 Teltronic \u2013 Electricite de France \u2013 Harman \u2013 CAF \u2013 Multiverse Computing \u2013 OGRE.<\/p>\n
The following entities (national authorities) are affiliated with PSCE: Erillisverkot (Finland) \u2013 Ministry of Citizen protection (Greece) \u2013 National Agency for Communication and Information Technologies (Czechia) \u2013 Ministerio del Interior (Spain) \u2013 The Agency for Operational Mobile Communications for Security and Emergency Response (France) \u2013 Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform (Ireland) \u2013 Netherlands Police (The Netherlands) \u2013 The Norwegian Directorate for Civil Protection (Norway) \u2013 National Police Directorate (Norway) . Ministry of the Interior and Administration (Poland) \u2013 Special Telecommunications Service (Romania) \u2013 Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency (Sweden) \u2013 Swedish Police Authority (Sweden).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Commission and a consortium led by Telef\u00f3nica and comprising more than 70 European entities have unveiled…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[579,155],"class_list":{"0":"post-723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-telefonica","8":"tag-mwc","9":"tag-telefonica"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}