Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Digital Europe Programme is the first EU programme that aims to accelerate the recovery and drive the digital transformation of Europe.
Worth €7.6 billion (in current prices), the Programme is a part of the next long-term EU budget, (the Multiannual Financial Framework), and it covers 2021 to 2027. It will provide funding for projects in five crucial areas: supercomputing, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, advanced digital skills, and ensuring the wide use of digital technologies across the economy and society.
The Programme is fine-tuned to fill the gap between the research of digital technologies and their deployment, and to bring the results of research to the market – for the benefit of Europe’s citizens and businesses, and in particular SMEs. Investments under the Digital Europe programme supports the Union’s twin objectives of a green transition and digital transformation and strengthens the Union’s resilience and strategic autonomy.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
The objective of this topic is to support further standardisation in the area of cybersecurity, notably in view of the implementation of the proposed Regulation on the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), in particular with a view to improving the awareness and engage stakeholders in such standardisation work.
Detailed Call Description
The aim is to ensure wide stakeholder participation in standardisation activities in the area of cybersecurity, and in particular in relation to development of harmonized standards facilitating the implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act. This can be in the form of meetings, workshops and collaborative activities, involving the private as well as the public sector.
The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) proposal aims to improve the internal market’s functioning by mandating that all products with digital elements (hardware and software) will only be made available on the market if they meet specific essential cybersecurity requirements. In order to facilitate the implementation of the CRA, harmonised standards would be developed, which, if followed, would trigger the presumption of conformity with the CRA essential cybersecurity requirements to which they correspond. This will be complementary to actions by the National Coordination Centres, which will play a key role in reducing negative cross-border spillovers and subsequent costs to society to mitigate the risks associated with non-secure products.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Maximum grant amount per project: €3 000 000
Thematic Categories
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Justice - Security
- New Entrepreneurship
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must be legal entities (public or private bodies), established in one of the EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories) or EEA countries (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein).
Targeted stakeholders
This topic targets cybersecurity standardisation stakeholders (notably European standardisation bodies and conformity assessment bodies), industrial players, including SMEs and start-ups, and relevant actors that play a role in the European standardisation process and in the implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act and Cybersecurity Act.
Multi-country consortia composition is not mandatory for this topic but will positively contribute to the impact of the action.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
Directorate of Research and Innovation
Eleana Gabriel
Telephone: +357 22 691918
Email: egabriel@dmrid.gov.cy