The European Broadband Competence Offices Network Support Facility
Through the annual European Broadband Awards, the European Commission highlights good practices in European broadband projects that show innovative ways of achieving the Digital Decade objectives. The aim of the Awards is to identify, give recognition to, and share good practices in planning, management and implementation of high-capacity networks in Europe.
This brochure presents the 14 projects that excelled in the 2023 European Broadband Awards. They demonstrate good practices that can serve as valuable models for other projects to learn from and replicate across Europe. Assessed by a jury of experts and awarded by the European Commission during a ceremony in Brussels, on 21 November 2023, these good practices fall under five award categories:
Category 1: Innovative models of financing, business and investment
Winner:
SIRO Network Expansion - Ireland
Finalists:
Development of Next Generation Access Infrastructure - Lithuania
Lower Austria - innovative PPP financing for supply rural areas with sustainable FTTH - Austria
Category 2: Cost-reduction measures and co-investment
Winner:
The Race Against Fagradalsfjall: Effective laying of fibre during an active volcanic eruption - Iceland
Finalists:
Strategic Connection Points Programme - Ireland
Hermes: Merger of Energie AG Telekom and Fibre Service OÖ Infrastructures - Austria
Category 3: Socio-economic impact in rural and remote areas
Winner:
Trysil: broadband for everyone - Norway
Finalists:
Ro-NET: Building a national broadband infrastructure in disadvantaged areas using Structural Funds - Romania
UNICO – Demanda Rural - Spain
Category 4: Demand generation and take-up of connectivity
Winner:
Broadband4Everyone: Broadband Infrastructure Development Plan for a sustainable City of Solin - Croatia
Finalists:
Territorial community TV for Pohjois-Satakunta area - Finland
internet.gov.pl - Information System on Fixed Internet Access - Poland
Category 5: Cross-border and international connectivity
Winner:
Rheintal Internet Exchange: Project "Around the Lake Constance" - Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and Switzerland
Finalist:
Introduction of Fixed Wireless Access services by Geuzenet - Germany
The European Commission would like to thank all projects for contributing to bringing connectivity to citizens in the EU and for applying to the 2023 European Broadband Awards. Congratulations to all selected finalists and awarded winners!
Find out more
- More good practices: explore the BCO Network video playlist of interviews on broadband funding, policy and good practice projects
- Broadband in EU countries: key facts and contacts
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