The ComisiónEuropea has announced the results of the first call for proposals of WiFi4EU (Wifi for Europe), the community-based program that offers grants of 15,000 euros to municipalities to install points for free wifi in the public space of their localities. In this first batch, whose applications were submitted between 7 and 9 November, have been selected to 2,800 municipalities to receive a bonus WiFi4EU, of which more than 200 are Spanish.
The total budget of the call is 42 million euros. The selected municipalities will now be able to create wifi access points in public spaces, such as town halls, libraries, museums, parks, squares and other places of public interest. Among the Spanish municipalities are from populations with less than 1,000 inhabitants to cities populous as Córdoba, Gijón, Salamanca and Elche.
After this first award, the Executive Agency for Innovation and Nets (INEA), the agency of the Commission in charge of the execution of the program WiFi4EU, will invite the municipalities winners of a bonus to sign grant agreements. Once this is done, the selected municipalities will be able to hire an installation company that install access points WiFi4EU in public spaces and then redeem the bonus. The 2 800 points of access shall be free of charge and will be active for at least three years.
there Will be three calls for municipalities that have not received a bonus on this occasion can apply. The second call will be launched at the beginning of 2019. In total, by 2020, about 8 000 municipalities will be able to benefit from this regime.
Meanwhile, all the municipalities that are registered can join the Community of WiFi4EU to comment on the initiative, exchanging views with municipalities from all over Europe and to be aware of the news about the program WiFi4EU.
Program Juncker
Announced by the president of the Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, in his speech on the state of the Union September 2016, the initiative WiFi4EU form part of the ambitious revision of the EU regulations on telecommunications, which includes new measures to respond to the growing connectivity needs of europeans and to boost Europe’s competitiveness.
The first call for proposals WiFi4EU was launched on 7 November at 13.00 (central european time) and lasted until the 9 of November at 17.00 (central european time). The Pasgol call was a great success, as it received more than 13 000 requests from all the participating countries. In the next two years will be organized three other calls WiFi4EU. For the four calls in the whole, the Commission makes a total of 120 million euros at the disposal of up to 8 000 municipalities throughout the EU. The Commission selects the municipalities for order of arrival of requests.
The networks funded through the initiative WiFi4EU will be free and will not contain advertising, and, in addition, they can’t collect personal data, according to the rules of the call. In addition, funding will be provided for those networks that do not duplicate services, public or private, free of similar quality as existing. The municipalities will hire the installers and will be responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the wifi access points.
List of Spanish municipalities benefit
Program WIFi4EU of the EU.
This is the list of Spanish municipalities that have received aid by order alphabetical:
Abadiño
Adamuz
Aguilafuente
Alberite
Albolote
Algaida
Alhama de Murcia
corn exchange
Almudévar
Almussafes
Andujar
Anguciana
Arrasate
Arroyomolinos (Madrid)
Artazu
Artés
Arucas
Atarfe
Bagüés
Bellpuig
Bernuy de Porreros
Bilbao
Borges Blanques, Them
Goat
Caldearenas
Campoo de Yuso
Canals
Canyelles
Castellserà
Córdoba
Coria del Río
Dénia
Don Benito
Doña Mencia
Elche
Esparragosa de Lares
Esterri d’àneu
Etxauri
Fatarella, The
Fortià
Fregenal de la Sierra
Fuente-Tójar
Guesálaz
Herrera
Huétor de Santillán
Igualada
Igúzquiza
Jumilla
Lebrija
the Line of the Conception, The
Llanos de Aridane, The
Lorquí
Median Voltoya
Melida
Mollet del Vallès
Oleiros
Olombrada
Palaces of the Archbishop
Palamós
Parets del Vallès
Hazards
Piloña
Poblets, els
Preses, Les
Priego de Córdoba
Quintanas de Gormaz
Rambla, The
Rianxo
Ribadesella
Ripollet
Rivilla de Barajas
Salceda de Caselas
San Bartolomé de Tirajana
Sant Cugat del Vallès
Sant Fruitós de Bages
Santa Cruz de la Serós
Santibáñez de Valcorba
Santo Adriano
Sepulveda
Solsona
Sos del Rey Católico
Torredembarra
Torrelles de Llobregat
Tossa de Mar
Trevélez
Tudelilla
Valleseco
the Verger, the
Viana de Jadraque
Vic
Vilagrassa
Vilalba dels Arcs
Vila-real
Villanueva del Aceral
Villarcayo de Merindad de Castilla la Vieja
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