Enhancing the NCC Network
Strengthening European Cybersecurity Technologies, Capacities and Preparedness · DIGITAL-JU-SIMPLE
What this call funds
This call supports the network of National Coordination Centres for cybersecurity across the EU. Funding helps them run activities such as awareness campaigns, education and training programs, matchmaking events, and platforms that help SMEs and startups bring cybersecurity products to market. It can also fund financial support to third parties to boost uptake of cybersecurity solutions and to strengthen national cybersecurity capacity.
cybersecurity · sme scaleup · education skills · deep tech
Who wins this
This call is designed exclusively for National Coordination Centres officially recognised under EU regulation to manage funds and coordinate national cybersecurity capacity building, awareness, and market uptake activities.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €2M to €3M
- 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.
- Eligible applicants
- public body
- Support to third parties
- Financial support to third parties may be used to strengthen uptake and dissemination of state of the art cybersecurity solutions, notably by SMEs, under conditions specified in grant agreements.
- Also required
- Only National Coordination Centres recognised by the European Commission under Regulation (EU) 2021/887 may apply, and participation of non EU entities is restricted under Article 12(5) of the DEP Regulation due to security concerns.
- 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