Deadline: 18-Sep-25
The European Commission is seeking proposals for Smart Security/Security Services.
Scope
- The focus of this topic is on several complementary areas mentioned below and applicants may select one or more of these areas:
- Building secure 6G architecture integrating Security Services and Security attributes of 6G services. The topic deals with frameworks that will enable full life cycle service integration across multiple stakeholders. This encompasses, but not limited to, considerations for security evaluation, exposition of Security attributes, holistic composition of services in multi-provider environments, user centric monitoring/reporting capabilities.
- Secure services and security Services, including, but not limited to, user-centric security, advanced security schemes applicable to 6G APIs, intent-based security, with security policies extraction, seamless integration of Managed Security Service Providers into the 6G architecture.
- Security evaluation, including, but not limited to, continuous security assessment (in all phases of the system life cycle from development, including Safe code, DevSecOps to running phases), development of standardized metrics to evaluate security quality, design of appropriate certification frameworks, secure coding practices, vulnerability management during development, and secure deployment and update procedures.
Funding Information
- Budget (EUR): 8 000 000.
- Contributions: around 8000000.
Expected Outcomes
- The target outcomes address consolidation of results on:
- Availability, accessibility, and affordability of technologies supporting the necessary levels of resilience, openness, transparency, and dependability expected under the EU regulations (such as GDPR, Cyber Security Act and AI Act) across a complete service continuum, supporting complex human centric multimodal communications, including entangled devices.
- Availability, accessibility, and affordability of technologies ensuring secure, privacy preserving and trustworthy services in the context of a programmable platform for the complete life cycle of services, accessed by multi-stakeholders and tenants including vertical industries as users, for increasingly dynamic scenarios considering interdependencies between components and cascade effects that may be produced separately.
- Zero-touch security deployment solutions for virtualized and distributed environments, taking into account the varying computational capabilities and security requirements of their building blocks and their interactions with third-party entities.
- Algorithms, software and hardware implementations where appropriate, which can be used for PoC and later trials systems Dissemination of solutions for international consensus building, which can be exploited in standardisation activities.
- Impactful contributions to international standardisation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from no associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call/topic.
- A ‘legal entity’ means any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.
- Entities eligible for funding:
- To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden.
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States:
- Aruba (NL), Bonaire (NL), Curação (NL), French Polynesia (FR), French Southern and Antarctic Territories (FR), Greenland (DK), New Caledonia (FR), Saba (NL), Saint Barthélemy (FR), Sint Eustatius (NL), Sint Maarten (NL), St. Pierre and Miquelon (FR), Wallis and Futuna Islands (FR).
- Countries associated to Horizon Europe;
- Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom.
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions:
- To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
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