Coordinated preparedness testing and other preparedness actions
Strengthening European Cybersecurity Technologies, Capacities and Preparedness · DIGITAL-JU-SIMPLE
What this call funds
This call funds projects that help EU member states get ready for cyber threats, either by coordinating penetration testing and risk assessment for critical infrastructure, or by running vulnerability monitoring, disclosure coordination, training and exercises for a broader set of critical sectors. The goal is to boost cybersecurity resilience across the EU without duplicating what member states or EU bodies already do, mainly by giving national authorities like CSIRTs the tools and expertise they need.
cybersecurity · public health · sme scaleup · civil society democracy
Who wins this
This suits cybersecurity service providers, research organisations or industry consortia experienced in penetration testing, threat assessment or training who can deliver preparedness services to national cybersecurity authorities and CSIRTs across the EU.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €1.5M
- Funding model
- DIGITAL-AG
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- DIGITAL JU Simple Grants
- Partners
- Not stated in the call.
- Also required
- Proposals should target competent national authorities such as CSIRTs and National Cybersecurity Authorities, with a possible focus on supporting start ups and SMEs to benefit from the Cyber Resilience Act and NIS 2 implementation.
- Sectors
- AI/ML · Cybersecurity · Deep Tech
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
Conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in section 5 of the call document. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible countries described in section 6 of the call document. 3. Other eligibility conditions described in section 6 of the call document. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in section 7 of the call document. 5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual. 5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds described in section 9 of the call document. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in section 4 of the call document. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in section 10 of the call document. Call document and annexes: Call document