‘The European Funds for Digital Development (EFDD) programme totals nearly 2 billion euros which we will be able to allocate to support digital transformation across the country. The last two years and a half demonstrated how important the development of modern technologies is. Their use improves the quality of our daily socioeconomic life. This is why the new financial perspectives for 2021-2027 focuses even more than before on the access of households, enterprises and places material for socioeconomic development to ultra-fast Internet, on the growth of electronic public services and improved access to digital data as well as on the implementation of projects relating to the broadly understood cybersecurity’,

Minister of Development Funds and Regional Policy Grzegorz Puda said. 

Cybersecurity, access to the fast Internet and e-services

Funding under the EFDD programme whose budget amounts to nearly 2 billion euros will be available to applicants for projects involving the provision of: 

• Access to the Internet with a minimum bandwidth of 100 Mb/s for households and enterprises, 
• Access to the Internet with a minimum bandwidth of 1 Gb/s in places material for the socioeconomic growth of our country such as schools, hospitals, offices, cultural institutions as well as technology and business centres. 

EU support will also be available to the entities that:

• Implement advanced public e-services that are effective and user-friendly, 
• Support the operation of the national cybersecurity system. 

The EFDD programme will support projects with a nationwide impact whose products can also be used locally. 

‘We will co-finance initiatives that facilitate access to new e-services and data and to IT systems that both residents and enterprises as well as the public administration will be able to use’, the Head of MFiPR summed up.