European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC)

Funds pilot projects that assess hospital cybersecurity gaps and demonstrate detection and response tools at partner healthcare sites in at least two member states.

Pays already-designated National Coordination Centres to run cybersecurity accelerator, awareness and community-building programmes in their own country.

Funds consortia across the certificate-authority supply chain to build and test hybrid post-quantum cryptography for public key infrastructure.

Funds the set-up and running costs of regional hubs that pool national authorities' data to detect and respond to threats against undersea cables.

Funds providers of penetration-testing and threat-assessment services that help EU competent authorities and critical-sector entities test and improve their cyber preparedness.

Funds tool and service providers to build AI-powered cyber-threat-intelligence and detection tools for national Cyber Hubs, CSIRTs and other authorities.

Funds developers of a cyber-risk toolkit and incident-response services that help SMEs comply with EU cybersecurity rules like the Cyber Resilience Act.

Pays entities appointed by a Member State to build and run a Cross-Border Cyber Hub that pools cybersecurity threat data across several countries.

Pays the entity a Member State designates under the Cyber Solidarity Act to build and run a National Cyber Hub for detecting and sharing cyber-threat data.

Funds generative-AI tools that detect and respond to cyberattacks, or that automate compliance with EU cybersecurity law.

Funds cyber threat-intelligence, crisis-management or SOC/CSIRT tools that help EU cybersecurity authorities detect and respond to attacks faster.

Funds cryptographic and privacy-preserving technologies that let organisations share and analyse sensitive data without exposing it.

Funds cryptanalysis research that stress-tests post-quantum cryptography against classical, quantum and AI-based attacks.

Funds countermeasures and testing tools that protect real-world post-quantum cryptography hardware and software from side-channel attacks.

Funds work that rebuilds widely used internet and authentication protocols to run securely on post-quantum cryptography.