Digital Europe program
The Digital Europe program is aimed at bringing digital technologies to businesses, citizens, and public administrations. Its goal is to accelerate economic recovery and shape the digital transformation of European society and economy, bringing benefits to everyone, but above all to small and medium-sized enterprises. Special specific objective number 3. deals with cyber security and trust (Cybersecurity and Trust), aiming to strengthen the EU’s critical digital capacities by focusing on the key areas of cyber security, advanced computing, artificial intelligence (UI), data infrastructure, data management, and processing, the implementation of these technologies and their best application in critical sectors. The work programs include: DIGITAL Europe Work Program 2023-2024 , and especially for cyber security: DIGITAL Europe – Cybersecurity Work Program 2023-2024 .
Horizon Europe
Horizon Europe is primarily focused on research and innovation, specifically on research infrastructures. For more information:
European Commission – Horizon Europe cybersecurity-related aspects .
Aspects of cyber security are available in the Work Program 2023-2024 for Cluster 3 ‘Civil Security for Society ‘.
European Defense Fund
The European Defense Fund (EDF) is the European Union’s program for research and development in the defense industry. The European Commission has adopted the latest annual work program under the EDF, with a total of 1.2 billion euros to support collaborative research and development projects and innovation in the European defense sector. The topic of cyber security was allocated an amount of 60 million euros.
Details of the European Defense Fund (including the work programme)
