Lantern Grants

Cross-border Cyber Hubs

Funder
European Commission · Digital Europe Programme
Award amount
Not specified
Deadline
March 16, 2027
Eligible countries
European Union

Summary

Open EU call topic DIGITAL-ECCC-2027-DEPLOY-CYBER-12-CBCH · DIGITAL JU Simple Grants. Part of call DIGITAL-ECCC-2027-DEPLOY-CYBER-12: Deploying Strategic Cyber Capabilities Across Europe - Cyber Hubs. Next deadline 2027-03-16. Topic page: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/DIGITAL-ECCC-2027-DEPLOY-CYBER-12-CBCH

Expected Outcome: - World-class Cross-Border Cyber Hubs across the Union for pooling data on cybersecurity threats between several Member States, equipped with a highly secure infrastructures and advanced data analytics tools for detecting, gathering and storing data on cybersecurity threats, analysing this data, and sharing and reporting CTI, reviews and analyses. - Sharing of Threat Intelligence between National Cyber Hubs, and information sharing agreements with competent authorities and networks, including CSIRTs.

Objective: The former Cross-border SOC platforms were financed during previous calls and such collaboration is envisaged for the Cross-Border Cyber Hubs. They should provide new additional capacity building upon and complementing existing SOCs/Cyber Hubs, Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs), ISACs and other relevant actors. This action is aimed mainly at new Cross-Border Cyber Hubs. Supporting activities for the SOCs that were already launched under the previous DIGITAL work programmes (2021-2022 and 2023-2024)1 could also be included when relevant to ensure collaboration with the Cross-Border Cyber Hubs. In addition to setting up processes, tools and services for prevention, detection and analysis of emerging cyberattacks, the scope also covers the acquisition and/or adoption of common (automation) tools, processes and shared data infrastructures for the management and sharing of contextualised and actionable cybersecurity operational information across the EU. Well-established open standards for CTI sharing (e.g. MISP Standard2) or automation of advisory…

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