Coordinated preparedness testing and other preparedness actions
European Commission · Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL)
Posted 1 Sept 2026 · About 4 months left
Summary
Expected Outcome:
The types of deliverables are presented in two parts.
The first part covers:
Enhanced cooperation, preparedness and cybersecurity resilience in the EU; preparedness support services.
Threat assessment and risk assessment services.
The second part covers:
Risk monitoring services
Better compliance, coordinated vulnerability disclosure and monitoring
Improved skills, via exercises and training courses, organisation of events, workshops. Stakeholder consultations and white papers.
Objective:
This action covers two actions from the Cyber Solidarity Act, dedicated to the Cybersecurity Emergency Mechanism, namely (1) coordinated preparedness testing of entities operating in sectors of high criticality across the Union and (2) other preparedness actions for entities operating in sectors of high criticality and other critical sectors.
Objectives
These actions aim to complement and not duplicate efforts by Member States and those at Union level to increase the level of protection and resilience to cyber threats, in particular for critical industrial installations and infrastructures, by assisting Member States in their efforts to improve their preparedness for cyber…
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Eligibility and conditions
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1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout
described in section 5 of the call document.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible countries
described in section 6 of the call document.
3. Other eligibility conditions
described in section 6 of the call document.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in section 7 of the call document.
5a. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
described section 8 of the call document and the Online Manual.
5b. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
described in section 9 of the call document.
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in section 4 of the call document.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in section 10 of the call document.
Call document and annexes:
Call document
Application form templates
Standard application form (DEP) — the application form specific to this call is available in the Submission System
Ownership control declaration
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
DEP MGA
Additional documents:
Digital Europe Cybersecurity Work Programme 2025-2027
DEP Regulation 2021/964
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
Themes
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Cyber Exercises
- Cyber Ranges
- Cyber Training
- Incident Readiness
- Penetration Testing
- Preparedness Testing
- Risk Assessment
- Security Evaluation
- Supply Chain Security
- Threat Assessment
- Vulnerability Management
- Analytics tools
- Communication network
- Communities of practices
- Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity Domains
- Data Security and Privacy
- Data protection
- Education and Training