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.
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Call
Summary
The focus will be on improving the cybersecurity capabilities of healthcare and public health institutions across the EU, including cybersecurity services and products, skills and training, awareness raising, and exchange of information, and others.
Cross-border solutions will be promoted where appropriate.
Detailed Call Description
The action will support cybersecurity resilience in healthcare and public health institutions, which have been put under particular stress over the recent years, especially further to the COVID-19 crisis, in view of limiting the damage of safety-critical cybersecurity incidents which have affected hospitals and health services providers.
The types of tools intervention covered must include at least one of the following:
- Implementation of objectives and requirements under the NIS Directive in relation to the health sector;
- Support for the uptake in healthcare and public health institutions, and in particular SMEs, of software tools, methods, organisational and management practices, and training material dedicated to cybersecurity;
- Electronic ID (eID) and data management solutions contributing to data security in healthcare and public health institutions;
- Cybersecurity education, awareness and skills in healthcare and public health institutions.
The funding will:
- Support the adoption of market-ready innovative cybersecurity solutions, including solutions developed in the framework of EU-supported research and innovation projects.
- Provide up to date tools to healthcare and public health institutions (in particular SMEs) to protect themselves against cyber threats.
- Contribute to data sharing in view to improve security collectively.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Project budget (maximum grant amount):
€ 3 000 000 per project for topic 50% and 75% (for SMEs) funding rate.
Thematic Categories
- Health
- Information Technology
- Justice - Security
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Large Enterprises
- 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)
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- EEA countries (Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein)
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Eleana Gabriel
Directorate of Research and Innovation
Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy
Telephone: +357 22 691918
Email: egabriel@dmrid.gov.cy
(Publish Date: 23/02/2022-for internal use only)
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