This Open Call, launched under the European Commission’s Digital Europe Programme, aims to enable European cybersecurity actors to take advantage of new technological breakthroughs, improving detection and prevention capabilities, efficiency, scalability, and facilitating data sharing and regulatory compliance.

Key Digital Technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (including generative AI and adversarial AI), Big Data Analytics, Quantum, Blockchain Technology, High Performance Computing and Software-Defined Networking, create new opportunities for advancing cybersecurity in the areas of vulnerability detection, threat detection and rapid response, reducing the window of opportunity for attackers to exploit these vulnerabilities. Furthermore, they may enable new possibilities to protect data security and privacy.

Relevant topics iclude:

• Real-time Monitoring and Incident Response
• Malware Defence and Analysis
• Proactive Vulnerability Management
• Data Protection and Anomaly Detection
• Incident investigation
• Data Utilisation with Privacy

Eligibility criteria

• Applicants should be legal entities (public or private bodies) established in one of the eligible countries (EU Member States, European Economic Area or Overseas Countries and Territories)

Funding

• the total budget under this call is 35 million EUR
• the call allocates indicatively between 3 and 5 million EUR per project but other amounts are not excluded.

Please follow this link for more information on the scope of the call and the procedural requirements for the applications.

The deadline for application is 21 January 2025, 17:00 CET (Brussels time).

Do you have any questions about this call? Do you want to improve your proposal? Are you looking for project partners? Join our interactive webinar on 25 November 2024 to gain in-depth insights about the call. Registration is now open at this link.