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2023/12/08 17:37:00

IPCEI (Important Project of Common European Interest)

2023: EU approves €1.2bn allocation for national cloud platform

On December 5, 2023, the European Commission announced its intention to allocate up to €1.2 billion for the creation of a national cloud platform, as well as strengthening the position of the European Union in the field of peripheral computing. This is expected to reduce dependence on American cloud providers, which dominate the corresponding segment.

We are talking about the initiative IPCEI (Important Project of Common European Interest) - an important project of European interest. By joining forces, European countries intend to create a comprehensive cloud platform that will push companies out of. USA According to estimates, in Canalys the third quarter of 2023, American platforms Amazon Web Services (AWS) Microsoft Azure Google Cloud accounted for about two-thirds (65%) of the global cloud market, which amounted to $73.5 billion.

The European Commission announced its intention to allocate up to €1.2 billion for the creation of a national cloud platform

As part of the IPCEI initiative, the research, development and first implementation stages will be held from 2023 to 2031, and the timing will vary depending on the specific project and participating companies. Funds in the amount of €1.2 billion will be provided by seven EU member states:,,,,, and France Germany Hungary Italy. Netherlands Poland Another €1.4 Spain billion is planned to be raised through private investment.

As of the beginning of December 2023, 19 players in the telecommunications and IT markets announced their participation in the initiative. These include three companies each from Germany (, and Deutsche Telekom) SAP , (Siemens Spain Telefónica España, OpenNebula Systems and Arsys Internet) and (Poland Oktawave, Atende Industries and CloudFerro), two each from (and) and (France 4iG Atos Orange Hungary and E-Group ICT Software), five from (Reply, TIM, Italy Tiscali Italia, Fincantieri and Engineering Ingegneria Informatica) and Netherlands one from (Adetica).[1]