Digital Europe: Support for Implementation of EU Legislation on Cybersecurity and National Cybersecurity Strategies

Status2 - Open for application
ThemeCyber awareness - knowledge and skills - human capitalImplementation of - EU - cybersecurity legislation
Organisation typeLarge enterpriseEducational institutionResearch institutionGovernment agencyStart-up / SMEFoundation / non-profit
Development phaseTRL 7-8 Deployment phaseTRL 9 Operations phase

This Digital Europe subsidy is for capacity building and improving cooperation on cybersecurity, with a focus on implementing the NIS2 Directive, the Cybersecurity Act and the Cyber Resilience Act. Industrial stakeholders, such as start-ups and SMEs, working on the implementation of upcoming cyber-related legislation, can apply for a subsidy.

Practical information

Application period: 4 July 2024 - 21 January 2025 17:00 CET
Budget: €20 million
Expected number of projects funded: 7
Estimated project duration: 36 months
Subsidy programme: Digital Europe

Conditions

Projects should contribute to one or more of the following goals:

Introduction, validation, testing and deployment of technology, tools and IT-related solutions, processes and ways of monitoring and managing cyber security incidents.
Increasing authorities' capacity for market surveillance, notifications or national certifications as a task arising from the Cyber Resilience Act.
Collaboration, communication, awareness, knowledge sharing and training, including the use of cybersecurity ranges, of public and private parties working on implementing the NIS2 regulation ((EU) 2022/2555).
Collaboration between experienced and learning organisations from at least 2 Member States. The aim is to facilitate the deployment and application of technologies, tools, processes and ways for effective cooperation across borders to prevent, detect and respond to cybersecurity incidents.
Measures to build robustness and resilience for cybersecurity. This enhances vendors' ability to systematically work with cybersecurity-relevant information or provide actionable data to CyberSecurity Incident Response Teams.
Ensure that manufacturers improve the security of products with digital elements from the design and development stage throughout the lifecycle.
Ensure a coherent cybersecurity framework that facilitates compliance for hardware and software producers.
Increase the transparency of products’ security features with digital elements and ensure that businesses and consumers in all sectors can safely use products with digital elements.
Support cybersecurity certification, including support to national authorities. This includes testing computer systems for vulnerabilities, acquiring certification test environments, sharing best practices and introducing innovative evaluation methods for specific ICT products or components.

Read more about this call on the European Commission's Funding & Tender (Topic-ID DIGITAL-ECCC-2023-DEPLOY-CYBER-04-EULEGISLATION).

Submission criteria

Submitting in a consortium is not mandatory. However, we recommend you to consider submitting in a consortium. This is because the description of the subsidy states that a consortium proposal can increase the impact of the action.