The EURO-3C project realizes the 3CN vision by developing and demonstrating the first large-scale federated, open, and sovereign European infrastructure pilot for supplying market-ready, interoperable and converged Telco-Edge-Cloud services, towards strengthening the European digital market, and addressing societal, techno-economic and vertical-specific demands.
To implement this vision, EURO-3C addresses four critical challenges:
Challenge 1: Federating heterogeneous infrastructures. Integrating Telco, Cloud, Edge and AI infrastructures requires overcoming technical complexity in orchestration, interoperability and performance. EURO-3C will federate distributed resources and commercial service lines from major EU Telco and Cloud providers into a comprehensive multi-vendor infrastructure (the EURO-3C Pilot). In this infrastructure, Telco-Edge-Cloud platforms (the EURO-3C Platforms) will offer a sovereign unified service catalogue, enabling interoperability and openness across providers.
Challenge 2: Meeting next-generation demands. Vertical industries and AI workloads require unprecedented levels of connectivity (low latency, high throughput), storage and computing power, distributed all the way to the far edge. EURO-3C will demonstrate how such infrastructure can scale to meet these demands, co-designed with stakeholders from key sectors such as Automotive, Transport, Energy, and Public Protection Disaster Relief (PPDR).
Challenge 3: Ensuring trust, security, and resilience. Federated Telco-Edge-Cloud environments must guarantee secure and trusted data exchange across domains. EURO-3C embeds security by design and Zero Trust principles, with interoperable mechanisms that protect cross-domain interactions and EU sovereignty over critical technologies.
Challenge 4: Building a sustainable and compliant ecosystem. For Telco-Edge-Cloud services to scale across Europe, they must operate within fragmented markets and diverse regulatory environments. EURO-3C will ensure that new business models and layered services are not only interoperable and sustainable but also fully compliant with EU and national legislation, laying the foundation for a trusted and competitive European digital ecosystem.