A Project to continue the activity of the National Centre for Safer Internet is approved for funding under the Connecting Europe Facility, "Telecommunications" sector. The proposal of the "Applied Sciences and Communications" Foundation, "Parents" Association and "DeConi International" AD is evaluated highly and the Bulgarian organizations will be granted € 367,183.
In order to apply for funding, the Bulgarian participants received a certificate from the Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications that the project is of common interest for Europe.
MTITC is a coordinator of the Connecting Europe Facility. Experts from the Ministry participate in the coordination and sectoral committees. For the opening of the calls for proposals through this mechanism MTITC informs the Bulgarian organizations on the opportunities for participation.