Call for proposals – Fiber to the Home

Pilot project – Connected for Health: Well-Being and Healthcare Solutions in Open Access FTTH Networks

This call for proposals is established under the Commission Decision n° C (2014) 2761 dated 30/04/2014.
Finland and Sweden have been traditionally strong in deploying FTTH, which may be a good solution to enable future eHealth and well-being services, in terms of speed, security, reliability and bandwidth capacity. In these countries, distances are long and the majority of the population lives in rural areas, hence the demand to introduce eHealth solutions is greater.
Based on the experiences with the implementation of a pilot on accessible home healthcare, which makes use of open access FTTH infrastructure in Finland and Sweden, this call for proposals aims to benefit elderly people, people with disabilities and/or other people in Europe who live in rural regions and who have limited or no access to healthcare.

The following types of entities are eligible to participate in the call: public authorities (national, regional, local), research centres, universities, companies, non-profit organisations (public or private).
Only applications from legal entities established in the EU Member States are eligible.

The activities may be implemented by several entities working together (i.e. consortium), provided that the minimum number of such entities is 3 and they are established in different EU Member States.

Deadline for submitting applications 30/09/2014 as evidenced by postmark

Read more and submit your proposals here.