The open call, funded under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme, is aimed at improving the security of the Computing Continuum for IoT, Edge, Cloud and Dataspaces technologies.

The evolution of the interconnected society brings multiple layers of cloud, edge computing, and IoT platforms that continuously interact with each other. This call for the proactive and automated detection, analysis, and mitigation of cybersecurity attacks in cloud, at the edge, for OT, IoT deployments, and in application domains such as, for example, smart cities.

Successful proposals should contribute to the achievement of one or more of the following impacts:

• Strengthened EU cybersecurity capacities and European Union sovereignty in digital technologies
• More resilient digital infrastructures, systems and processes
• Increased software, hardware and supply chain security
• Secured disruptive technologies
• Smart and quantifiable security assurance and certification shared across the EU
• Reinforced awareness and a common cyber security management and culture.

More specifically, Projects’ results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

• Tools to support cybersecurity resilience, preparedness, awareness, and detection within critical infrastructures and across supply chains;
• Cloud infrastructures vulnerabilities mitigation;
• Secure integration of untrusted IoT in trusted environments;
• Use of Zero-Trust architectures;
• Trust & Security for massive connected IoT ecosystems & lifecycle management;
• Secure interoperability and integration of systems;
• AI-based automation tools for cyber threat intelligence;
• Secure infrastructure for data processing.

Consortia composition:

• at least 1 independent legal entity established in a Member State; and
• at least 2 other independent legal entities, each established in different Member
  States or Associated Countries.

Funding:

• up to €6.000.000
• The indicative number of grants is 4