Deadline: 15-Feb-23
The European Commission (EC) is seeking proposals for its Uptake Of Innovative Cybersecurity Solutions.
Scope
The focus will be on improving cybersecurity capabilities across the EU, notably for SMEs and public organisations, through both supply and demand support measures. This may include awareness raising measures (where relevant in line with activities promoted by ENISA), or marketplace platforms supporting interaction between suppliers and adopters of cybersecurity solutions and training.
Objective: To support the market uptake and dissemination of innovative cybersecurity solutions (notably from SMEs, as well as results from publicly-funded research in the EU), improve knowledge, and auditing of cybersecurity preparedness.
Tools
The types of tools covered must include at least one of the following:
- Cybersecurity protection services;
- Auditing of cybersecurity resilience of equipment and services;
- Security testing tools including static-analysis code scanning tools;
- Cybersecurity investigation tools, tracing the origins of cybersecurity threats;
- Incident response tools that fit into general operational and management cybersecurity strategies;
- Support to Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure, in line with national policies where relevant;
- Funding and support for projects that improve and/or audit open source software, with regard to cybersecurity;
- Support for hackathons, cybersecurity challenges and conferences, and for engaging with relevant stakeholders including software development communities;
- Support to awareness raising, prevention, education, training, and gender balance in cybersecurity.
Funding Information
Amount: EUR 32.000.000
Outcomes
The funding will:
- Support the adoption of market-ready innovative cybersecurity solutions, including solutions developed in the framework of EU-supported research and innovation projects.
- Provide and deploy up to date tools and services to organisations (in particular SMEs) to prepare, protect and respond to cybersecurity threats.
- Improve the security of open-source solutions (e.g. establishment of bug bounty programmes).
Eligibility Criteria
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be legal entities (public or private bodies)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)) for all topics
- EEA countries (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein) for all topics
- For topic DIGITAL-ECCC-2022-CYBER-03-UPTAKECYBERSOLUTIONS only: countries associated to the Digital Europe Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature.
- Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register — before submitting the proposal — and will have to be validated by the Central Validation Service (REA Validation). For the validation, they will be requested to upload documents showing legal status and origin.
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