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The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) has been tasked by the European Commission to prepare a cybersecurity certification candidate scheme for cloud services, taking into account existing and relevant schemes and standards. The EU Cybersecurity Act adopted in June 2019 provides the framework to develop a European-wide cybersecurity certification scheme for ICT services, products and processes.

The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF2) Digital programme aims to support and catalyse investments in digital connectivity infrastructures of common interest during the period 2021-2027. To stimulate further the ongoing discussions and exchanges of ideas on the future implementation of the programme, the European Commission is publishing a non-paper setting out possible orientations and general implementation guidelines.

The European Commission (DG Justice and Consumers) has published a study about SMEs’ usage of cloud computing. The study identifies and analyses the most frequent contract-related problems encountered by SMEs. How important was the economic damage for SME’s arising from those problems in relation to the most contracted cloud computing services?

The purpose of this call for tenders is to carry out a study that will to provide evidence necessary to establish a financial product for Sustainable ICT under the InvestEU Programme (reference: SMART 2019/0076).

In 2019, 10 public research organisations from 7 EU countries completed the EU funded Helix Nebula Science Cloud pre-commercial procurement (HNSciCloud) and kick-started the uptake of new cloud-based systems with big data storage and analysis tools needed by large scientific projects. The HNSciCloud consortium won the 2019 Procura+ Award ‘outstanding innovation procurement in ICT’. May 2020, an extended buyers group of 40 countries started buying the larger rollout across Europe of cloud research services based on the HNSciCloud results.

Cloud technologies offer a model of on-demand data storage and processing, both in centralised data centres or in distributed connected devices close to the user (at the edge of the network). As cloud technologies are faster, cheaper and more flexible than conventional computing methods, many services that businesses and citizens use every day, such as web-based email, entertainment systems, public services including health and transportation, are based on them.