The European Union aims to promote cyber resilience, safeguarding communication and data and keeping online society and economy secure.
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About the programme
Digital Europe supports the EU achieve a high common level of cybersecurity. With an increasing number of services available online, cybersecurity has become crucial to the digital world. Cybersecurity is also an economic opportunity: the global market for products and services grows by 15-20% annually.
Digital Europe supports building European cybersecurity infrastructures – the ‘cyber shield’ and promote the widespread deployment and take-up of state-of-the-art cybersecurity practices and equipment. The EU authorities aim at strengthening the EU’s digital sovereignty, which relies on the integrity and resilience of data infrastructure, networks and communications.
Most actions under Specific Objective 3 - Cybersecurity section fall under a specific work programme for cybersecurity managed by the European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre in Bucharest. This Centre will work in collaboration with a Network of National Coordination Centres to coordinate cybersecurity investments by the EU, Member States and industry.
Operational objectives
The Regulation establishing Digital Europe seeks to support the following operational objectives:
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Security Digital, Industry & Space Cybersecurity Defence
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Digital Europe Cybersecurity Deployment: Best use of technologies
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Security AI, data & cloud Cybersecurity Defence Space
Security Cybersecurity Defence EDF
Security AI, data & cloud Cybersecurity Defence EDF
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