Connecting Europe Facility

In 2025, 10 Bulgarian organisations won €12.8 million to implement five projects in the digital sector under the Connecting Europe Facility. This is a significant achievement for Bulgarian companies, which managed to establish themselves and demonstrate a high level of activity, expertise, and innovation in an extremely competitive European environment. For the team at the Ministry of Transport and Communications, as the national coordinator of the digital sector under the Connecting Europe Facility, it is important that all five projects that were submitted won funding.

The first multiannual work program of the Connecting Europe Facility - Digital Technologies has been published, setting out the financing, scope and objectives of the EU-supported actions needed to improve Europe's digital connectivity infrastructures.

Technical guidance on the climate proofing of infrastructure in the period 2021-2027 have been published in the Official Journal of the EU from 16.09.2021.

Regulation (EU) 2021/1153 establishes the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for the period 2021 to 2027 and lays down the objectives of the CEF, its budget, the forms of European Union funding and the rules for providing such funding.