Call for experts in digital connectivity infrastructures

The European Commission co-funds digital infrastructures of common European interest. To evaluate the project proposals submitted under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Digital calls, the European Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) needs the expertise of independent experts in the field.

Expertise needed

Experts should have experience in one or more of these fields:

  1. Telecommunications cable infrastructures, smart cables, backbone infrastructures
  2. Quantum communication infrastructures: Quantum Key Distribution (QKD); integration of quantum communication technologies with conventional communication infrastructures; optical ground stations and their certification; encryption key management; space infrastructure for quantum communication; quantum cryptography and cryptology; space-based QKD; in-orbit validation and demonstration; quantum networking.
  3. 5G connectivity and 5G infrastructures: connected and automated mobility (CAM); cellular vehicle to everything technology (C-V2X); Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); PLMNO handover solutions; Trans European Transport Networks (TEN-T); 5G Stand alone (5GSA); Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS); edge nodes, edge cloud, edge computing; Internet of Things (IoT); connected collaborative computing (3C network); broadband; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Network as a Service (NaaS), Open Radio Access Network (RAN).
  4. Digital security of backbone infrastructures, quantum communication infrastructures, critical infrastructures and/or 5G networks.

Knowledge and/or experience in the following fields is an asset:

  1. Project management and implementation;
  2. Project financing/financial analysis;
  3. Risk assessment;
  4. Capacity and demand analysis;
  5. State aid;
  6. Market failure.

How to register

Experts can register at the European Commission’s expert database.

Please inform us after your registration by contacting HADEA-CEF-DIGITAL-EXPERTS@ec.europa.eu, with your expert’s registration number and your specific field(s) of expertise. This will allow us to find you easily in the database.

Learn more: https://europa.eu/!jRXCnP.

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