Digital Europe: Dedicated action to reinforcing hospitals and healthcare providers

Published on:
15 May 2025

This European subsidy is for strengthening the cybersecurity of hospitals and healthcare providers. The subsidy  aims to ensure that they can effectively detect, monitor, and respond to cyber threats, especially ransomware attacks. This is critical to increasing the resilience of Europe’s healthcare system.

Practical information

  • Application period: 10 June 2025 - 7 October 2025 (preliminary)
  • Budget: € 30 million
  • Expected number of projects funded: to be determined
  • Estimated project duration: one-and-a-half year to 2 years
  • Subsidy programme: Digital Europe Cyber Working Programme

Conditions

The subsidy is for pilot projects focusing on making European healthcare more cyber-secure. These projects can include staff training, drafting technical cybersecurity plans, or mapping hospitals' cybersecurity needs.

Results should lead to:

  • Mapping of common cybersecurity needs of hospitals and healthcare providers.
  • Guidelines for healthcare providers to assess their current state of cybersecurity protection and relevant needs.
  • Technical cybersecurity plans to enhance preparedness and cyber resilience: improved detection and response capabilities for healthcare institutions, minimising the impact of cyberattacks, particularly for ransomware. This also includes dedicated training courses for staff.
  • Pilot cybersecurity demo installations at partner hospitals and healthcare provider sites to ensure hospitals and healthcare providers can maintain operational continuity in the face of cybersecurity incidents. This should be monitored through specific KPIs.
  • Wide dissemination campaigns to help scale up the preparedness of hospitals and healthcare providers in Europe.

Read more about this subsidy.

Submission criteria

Consortia consist of:

  • regional and/or national clusters of hospitals and healthcare providers from at least 2 EU Member States (such as national healthcare systems, hospitals, or associations of hospitals, healthcare providers and/or professional associations of healthcare practitioners), comprising small, medium and large entities; and
  • providers of cybersecurity services.

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