NEXIS: European cybersecurity calls

This European grant is for projects that contribute to data analysis for infrastructure resilience. Specifically, projects should contribute to achieving one or more of the following goals:

• Improved risk identification in infrastructure networks and smart cities through real-time analysis (including big data) on secure platforms for public and private actors. All this is within legal and public frameworks.
• Tools and processes that help stakeholders identify, analyse, assess and monitor risks. This is done using various data sources such as audio, video and web content.
• Fast and continuous real-time identification, classification and tracking of hazards in infrastructure networks and supply chains.
• Interfaces and improved collaboration between detection and response systems, national/EU risk management systems and remote operations tools.
• Increased cyber resilience of industrial future networks and cloud data in specific infrastructure domains.
• Improved ability to map the risk factors in network infrastructure in real-time using 'earth observation' and location data.
   
• Opening period call: 27 June 2024 - 20 November 2024
• Budget: € 5 million
• Read more about this call on the European Commission's Funding & Tender portal 

This European grant aims to research ways to develop and assess security in software and hardware. Projects should contribute to one or more of the following objectives:

• Improved security techniques for hardware and software; resilient system designs.
• Improved hardware and software testing access in virtual, closed and secure environments.
• Systematic and, where possible, automated study of vulnerabilities, software analysis and security.
• Reliable, certifiable hardware and software.
• Artificial intelligence-based security services such as predictive security, advanced anomaly and intrusion detection, and system health checks.
   
• Call opening period: 27 June 2024 - 20 November 2024
• Budget: € 37 million
• Read more about this call on the European Commission's Funding & Tender portal 

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

• Increased understanding by police authorities of emerging (digital and especially physical) threats in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) environment.
• Modern tools for European police authorities and security professionals to tackle emerging crimes related to IoT. This considers legal and ethical rules, EU fundamental rights and cost-benefit considerations.
• Lawful access to and exploitation of evidence in the IoT environment.
• Improved best practices (legal, organisational, technical) to access and exploit IoT during an investigation, including developing relevant tools and training materials.
   
• Call opening period: 27 June 2024 - 20 November 2024
• Budget: € 5 million
• Read more about this call on the European Commission's Funding & Tender portal 

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

• Strengthening current post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and contributing to further standardisation.
• User-friendly tools for large-scale implementation of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms based on state-of-the-art standards.
• Secure and efficient transition from pre- to post-quantum encryption via tools that implement a hybrid approach. Here, recognised pre-quantum algorithms are combined with complementary post-quantum algorithms.
• Gradual introduction of post-quantum algorithms or protocols in new or existing applications.
• Examples and successful practical implementations of post-quantum cryptographic algorithms on different hardware and software platforms.
• Application-oriented recommendations for the widespread implementation of post-quantum cryptography across the EU.
   
• Call opening period: 27 June 2024 - 20 November 2024
• Budget: € 23.4 million
• Read more about this call on the European Commission's Funding & Tender portal 

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

• Diminishing the attractiveness of cryptocurrencies for criminals and terrorists by enhancing the traceability of cryptocurrency transactions.
• Lawful tools and methods for police authorities to better trace virtual currency transactions related to criminal activities.
• Recommendations for better regulation of the crypto market and better regulation of the exchange of transnational payment information. This should focus on harmonising and promoting standards for tracing money flows in criminal investigations.
• Developing modern training programmes for police authorities and legal organisations to track, seize, and handle cryptocurrencies during an investigation.
   
• Call opening period: 27 June 2024 - 20 November 2024
• Budget: € 6 million
• Read more about this call on the European Commission's Funding & Tender portal 

This European grant is for developing solutions that contribute to the development of CCAM (Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility) systems.

Specifically, projects should contribute to one or more of the following goals:

• New, centralised, reliable, cyber-secure and upgradable control systems for in-vehicle CCAM systems. Underlying these control systems is using co-designed hardware, software and (smart) data flows.
• Increased use of level 4 automation in road vehicles by expanding control systems' Operational Design Domains (ODDs) to more complex situations (urban traffic, bad weather conditions, et cetera) or using them on a greater scale.
• Safe operation of Connected and Automated Driving (CAD) functions, for example, for Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs) and ODD transitions through system flexibility, experience-based decision-making and access to cloud intelligence.
• The transition from human-based control of vehicles to a more integrated, resource-efficient and reliable system for controlling CCAM systems.
• Improved collaboration between European car manufacturers and suppliers to design a standard cyber-secure electronic architecture with corresponding interfaces.
   
• Opening period call: 7 May 2024 - 5 September 2024
• Budget: € 12 million
• Read more about this call on the European Commission's Funding & Tender portal