Europe looks to raise its game in cybersecurity>
– Science Business
Replacing a fragmented network of players with an EU digital sovereignty ecosystem

here is a large set of uncoordinated players in the EU cybersecurity field, including the Commissionâs multiple agencies (e.g, DG CONNECT, DH HOME, DG DIGIT, REA), ENISA, EC3, CERT-EU, EEAS, EDA, and Member States (who due to the subsidiarity principle on security, conduct their own, often isolated, agendas on cybersecurity) and a huge set of private organisations from industry and academia. Leveraging the H2020 programme, the EU has provided a total of â¬64 million in funding to the projects CONCORDIA, ECHO, CyberSec4Europe and SPARTA (of which INESC is part of the Strategic Direction Board) as pilots for a European Cybersecurity Competence Network. Each one has a different, but complementary, approach to developing the technological and industrial cybersecurity research and innovation capacities of the EU.

On December 16th 2020, the Commission and the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy presented a new Cybersecurity Strategy. Positioning the EU to âlead in securing a global and open Internetâ, the strategy recognises the dependence of the EU on the cybersecurity of its increasingly digital infrastructures, and the wide and diverse threat landscape.

European Digital Innovation Hubs (EDIH) are set to play a central role in the Digital Europe Programme financing the Cybersecurity domain with about â¬100 million per year, mainly focused on fostering innovation for SMEs and the European public sector, and triggering a similar amount of investment by the member states in which the Centre and the Network are foreseen to play a key role. There are currently more than 240 DIH with competences on cybersecurity, which is more than the number of EDIH that are likely to be financed across all domains (cybersecurity is only one of the priorities). Most member states have already finished the national selection stage, while the call for proposals at European level is set to open anytime soon.
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