DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07 (Deadline for submissions 27/03/2025)
The total budget amounts to 102.800.000 euros to support deployment actions in the area of cybersecurity. The projects funded by this call will be managed by the European Cybersecurity Competence Center (ECCC). The call is open to businesses, SMEs, public administrations, and other entities from EU Member States and EFTA/EEA countries.
The areas of actions are as follows:
1) DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-SOC - National SOCs
The objective is to create or strengthen National SOCs, in particular with state-of-the-art tools for monitoring, understanding and proactively managing cyber events, in close collaboration with relevant entities such as CSIRTs. They will also, where possible, benefit from information and feeds from other SOCs in their countries and use the aggregated data and analysis to deliver early warnings to targeted critical infrastructures on a need-to-know basis.
Proposal submission date: 04 July 2024
Closing date: 27 March 2025
Call budget: 5.800.000 Euro
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2) DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-SOCPLAT – Enlarging existing or Launching New Cross-Border SOC Platforms
The general objective of cross-border SOC platforms is to strengthen capacities to analyse, detect and prevent cyber threats and to support the production of high-quality intelligence on cyber threats, notably through the exchange of data from various sources, public and private, as well as through the sharing of state-of-the-art tools and jointly developing cyber detection, analysis, and prevention capabilities in a trusted environment.
Proposal submission date: 04 July 2024
Closing date: 27 March 2025
Call budget: 5.000.000 Euro
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3) DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-SOCSYS – Strengthening the SOC Ecosystem
This topic complements other actions in this and the previous Work Programme, which are building up National SOCs and Cross-Border SOC platforms. It will empower SOCs which are linked to National SOCs, and to a stronger collaboration between local SOCs, National SOCs and Cross-Border SOC platforms, leading to an increased data sharing and better detection capability for cyber threats. This should in particular foster interoperability, identifying what data can be shared, how this is shared and in what format, requirements and sharing agreements, and ways to enable better exchange. Links to the actions funded under the Cybersecurity Skills Academy (in the main Digital Europe work programme) can also be envisaged.
Proposal submission date: 04 July 2024
Closing date: 27 March 2025
Call budget: 2.000.000 Euro
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4) DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-KEYTECH – Development and Deployment of Advanced Key Technologies
Breakthroughs in Key Digital Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (including generative AI and adversarial AI), Big Data Analytics, Quantum, Blockchain Technology, High Performance Computing and Software-Defined Networking, create new opportunities for advancing cybersecurity in the areas of vulnerability detection, threat detection and rapid response, reducing the window of opportunity for attackers to exploit these vulnerabilities. Furthermore, they may enable new possibilities to protect data security and privacy.
The objective is to enable European cybersecurity actors to take advantage of these new breakthroughs, improving detection and prevention capabilities, efficiency, scalability, and facilitating data sharing and regulatory compliance.
In particular innovative technologies should allow for the processing of larger amounts of data, automating real-time pattern recognition, log analysis, vulnerability scanning, while enabling security professionals to focus on higher level interpretation of data and response decisions. They should allow organisations to deploy solutions and larger scale, and in increasingly complex environments.
Proposal submission date:04 July 2024
Closing date: 27 March 2025
Call budget: 35.000.000 Euro
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5) DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-LARGEOPER – Preparedness Support and Mutual Assistance, Targeting Larger Industrial Operations and Installations
This mechanism aims 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, in particular for large industrial installations and infrastructures, by assisting Member States in their efforts to improve the preparedness for cyber threats and incidents by providing them with knowledge and expertise.
Proposal submission date: 04 July 2024
Closing date: 27 March 2025
Call budget: 35.000.000 Euro
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6) DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-CYBERSEC-02 – Support for Implementation of EU Legislation on Cybersecurity and National Cybersecurity Strategies (2024)
The action 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 (Directive (EU) 2022/2555), the Cybersecurity Act, and the Directive on attacks against information systems (Directive 2013/40). It complements the work of SOCs in the area of threat detection. It is a continuation of work currently supported under the previous Digital Work Programme.
In addition, this action also aims at supporting the implementation of the proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) by market surveillance authorities/notifying authorities/national accreditation bodies, by increasing their capacities to ensure effective implementation of the CRA.
Proposal submission date: 04 July 2024
Closing date: 27 March 2025
Call budget: 20.000.000 Euro
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