The European Commission has recently published a new call for proposals of the Digital Europe Programme (DEP). A dedicated budget of EUR 102 million is made available for deployment activities supporting National SOCs, the launch of Cross-Border SOC platforms, strengthening of the SOC ecosystem, the development of advanced key technologies and support for the implementation of EU legislation on cybersecurity and national cybersecurity strategies.
The projects funded by this call will be managed by the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC). The call is open to businesses, SMEs, public administrations, and other entities from EU Member States and EEA countries.
The areas of actions are as follows:
- DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-SOC - National SOCs
- DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-SOCPLAT – Enlarging existing or Launching New Cross-Border SOC Platforms
- DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-SOCSYS – Strengthening the SOC Ecosystem
- DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-KEYTECH – Development and Deployment of Advanced Key Technologies
- DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-LARGEOPER - Preparedness Support and Mutual Assistance, Targeting Larger Industrial Operations and Installations
- DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07-CYBERSEC-02 – Support for Implementation of EU Legislation on Cybersecurity and National Cybersecurity Strategies (2024)
Proposals can be submitted from 4 July 2024 until 21 January 2025 at 17:00 CET, Brussels time.
The call for proposals 'DIGITAL-ECCC-2024-DEPLOY-CYBER-07’ under the Digital Europe Programme is now published on the Funding and Tenders portal, find the call document here.
Background
The Digital Europe Programme complements investments under other EU programmes, such as the Horizon Europe, EU4Health, InvestEU, the Connecting Europe Facility, as well as investments under the Recovery and Resilience Facility.
Digital Europe Programme is implemented by multiannual work programmes and supports investments in the following sectors:
- High Performance Computing
- Cloud, data and Artificial Intelligence
- Cybersecurity
- Advanced digital skills
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Details
- Publication date
- 17 June 2024
- Author
- Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology