Strengthening EU cybersecurity capacities & capabilities in line with legislative requirements
Strengthening European Cybersecurity Technologies, Capacities and Preparedness · DIGITAL-JU-SIMPLE
What this call funds
This call funds projects that help European organisations meet cybersecurity laws like the Cyber Resilience Act, NIS 2, GDPR and the Cybersecurity Act. It supports building tools, training, certification support and cross border collaboration platforms so companies, especially SMEs, and national authorities can comply with these rules and raise cybersecurity maturity across the EU. It also funds training and skills programmes to grow the cybersecurity workforce, including cybersecurity challenges for students and young professionals.
cybersecurity · education skills · sme scaleup · digital health
Who wins this
A consortium of cybersecurity organisations, certification bodies, training providers or national authorities that wants to build tools, training or platforms helping SMEs and public bodies comply with EU cybersecurity legislation.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €3M to €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
- Applications should address at least one eligible piece of cybersecurity legislation such as CRA, NIS 2, GDPR, DORA, Cybersecurity Act or AI Act, and consortia should ideally include representatives across the privacy enhancing technology value chain.
- 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