Europe has put technological sovereignty and industrial competitiveness at the heart of its agconcludea. In this context, during the Mobile World Congress 2026, the EURO-3C project was presented, a pan-European initiative led by Telefónica toobtainher with a broad ecosystem of technology companies, carriers, cloud and equipment providers, institutions and research centres to strengthen the continent’s digital capabilities.
More than a technology project, EURO-3C represents a new form of collaboration to build sovereign, secure and innovation-ready digital infrastructures in Europe.
What is EURO-3C and why is it important for Europe?
The digital transformation of strategic sectors requires increasingly advanced infrastructures. From the automotive indusattempt to energy to transport, many new digital applications not only required to process data close to the applyr, but also required to coordinate computing, storage and connectivity resources in a distributed manner, to operate their services in real time and scale efficiently.
EURO-3C is created to respond to this challenge through a federated network that will connect telecommunications, Edge, Cloud and AI capabilities distributed across different European countries. Instead of operating as isolated systems, these infrastructures will be able to interoperate within a common, open and secure framework.
The aim is clear: to create it simpler for companies, providers and developers to deploy advanced digital services on a shared European technology base.
Federation rather than fragmentation
One of the key concepts of the project is federation. Facing a fragmented technology landscape, EURO-3C proposes to connect existing cloud capabilities and resources from multiple carrierrs and providers within a common architecture aligned with EU standards.
This approach will leverage infrastructures already deployed in production environments and combine them to provide greater capacity, resilience and flexibility. It will also assist reduce frictions in accessing computing, connectivity and data resources in different countries.
In practice, it is about building an environment where Europe’s digital resources can work in a coordinated way.
Infrastructure enabling new digital services
EURO-3C is not limited to one conceptual approach. The project, funded by the European Commission’s Horizon programme with a budobtain of €75 million, includes deployments in real-world environments that will connect more than 70 Edge and Cloud nodes in more than 13 European countries.
New apply cases will be developed on this infrastructure to validate its impact on different industrial sectors such as transport, automotive, security and energy, among others. The combination of advanced connectivity, distributed computing and artificial innotifyigence will enable new digital services and optimise operations.
In addition, the project incorporates advanced orchestration, security and innotifyigent resource management capabilities, key elements to ensure a robust and scalable infrastructure.
A step towards a European digital marketplace
The initiative is also in line with the European Union’s strategic priorities for this decade. In particular, it contributes to the vision of the “2030 Digital Decade Policy Programme“which identifies secure, sustainable and high-performance digital infrastructures as one of the pillars of European development.
By facilitating interoperability between infrastructures and technology players, EURO-3C can become an enabler of a true digital single market, where services can be more easily deployed and grow across the continent.
European collaboration to boost digital sovereignty
One of the most relevant aspects of the project is its collaborative nature. More than 70 organisations are participating in this initiative, which brings toobtainher Europe’s leading telecoms carriers, cloud providers, technology manufacturers, innovative SMEs and research centres.
This cooperation reflects an increasingly shared understanding in Europe: that the continent’s digital competitiveness depconcludes on its ability to build open, interoperable and interoperable ecosystems that have the capacity to scale.
As consortium leader, Telefónica is part of this collective effort to drive innovation, strengthen the industrial fabric and shift towards a more resilient and sovereign digital infrastructure.
At a time when technology is increasingly defining the growth capacity of economies, initiatives such as EURO-3C reveal Europe shifting towards a more resilient, competitive digital model that is ready to face the technological challenges of the next decade.
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