Digital Europe – Deployment actions in the area of cybersecurity – 2023

Objectives

• To complement and not duplicate efforts by Member States and those at Union level to increase the level of protection and resilience to cyber threats, by assisting Member States in their efforts to improve the preparedness for cyber threats and incidents by providing them with knowledge and expertise
• To support mutual assistance between Member States for both preparedness and incident response actions
• To enhance exchange and coordination between the cybersecurity civilian and defence spheres
• To support further standardisation in the area of cybersecurity, notably in view of the implementation of the proposed Regulation on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), in particular with a view to improving the awareness and engage stakeholders in such standardisation work

Priorities

• Priority 1 – To foster synergies between cybersecurity actions in Horizon Europe, Digital Europe and defence related actions carried out by the Union through its bodies and programmes, such as the European Defence Agency and the European Defence Fund
• Priority 2 – To focuses on capacity building and the enhancement of cooperation on cybersecurity at technical, operational and strategic levels, in the context of existing and proposed EU legislation on cybersecurity in particular the NIS2 Directive

Among financed actions

• Preparedness support services
• Threat assessment and risk assessment services
• Risk monitoring services
• Mutual assistance among Member States
• Concrete activities such as discussions, meetings, white papers, workshops, which strengthen the links between the cybersecurity civilian and defence spheres
• Synergies between these communities, such as common activities to exchange know-how and information
• Organization of events, workshops, stakeholder consultations, and production of white papers, all fostering the development of harmonised standards and conformity with requirements stemming from above mentioned legislative framework
• Support for participation of relevant European experts in European and international cybersecurity standardisation fora
• Incident management solutions reducing the overall costs of cybersecurity for individual Member States and for the EU as a whole
• Better compliance with NIS2 (Directive (EU) 2022/2555) and higher levels of situational awareness and crisis response in Member States
• Organization of events, workshops, stakeholder consultations and white papers
• Enhanced cooperation, preparedness and cybersecurity resilience in the EU
• Support actions in the area of certification

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals
• Initial duration of the action: up to 48 months

Eligibility

Be legal entities (public or private bodies)

• Total budget of the call: 71 million euro
• Total budget of the topic:
  DIGITAL-ECCC-2023-DEPLOY-CYBER-04-SUPPORT-ASSIST: 35 million euro
  DIGITAL-ECCC-2023-DEPLOY-CYBER-04-CIVIL-DEFENCE: 3 million euro
  DIGITAL-ECCC-2023-DEPLOY-CYBER-04-STANDARDISATION: 3 million euro
  DIGITAL-ECCC-2023-DEPLOY-CYBER-04-EULEGISLATION: 30 million euro
• Amount of the grant:
  DIGITAL-ECCC-2023-DEPLOY-CYBER-04-SUPPORT-ASSIST: between 3 million and 7 million euro
  DIGITAL-ECCC-2023-DEPLOY-CYBER-04-EULEGISLATION: between 1 million and 5 million euro
  DIGITAL-ECCC-2023-DEPLOY-CYBER-04-CIVIL-DEFENCE: up to 3 million euro
  DIGITAL-ECCC-2023-DEPLOY-CYBER-04-STANDARDISATION: up to 3 million euro
• Co-financing rate: between 50% and 100% of the total eligible costs