Dual-use technologies
Strengthening European Cybersecurity Technologies, Capacities and Preparedness · DIGITAL-JU-SIMPLE
What this call funds
This call funds projects that build cybersecurity technologies useful for both civilian and military purposes, things like quantum safe encryption, zero trust security, AI powered threat detection, cyber ranges with digital twins, and automated incident response tools. The goal is to create working prototypes and market ready products that protect critical infrastructure and enable cooperation between civilian and defence organisations. Around three grants will share a ten million euro budget.
cybersecurity · artificial intelligence · digital twins · defence security · quantum technologies
Who wins this
A consortium spanning civilian and defence stakeholders, including industry, SMEs, academia and national authorities, that wants to build dual use cybersecurity prototypes or infrastructure ready for real world deployment.
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
- Consortia may be requested by the ECCC to join clustering activities to build synergies between civilian and defence communities; detailed eligibility, evaluation and financial conditions are set out in the separate call document rather than in this text.
- 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