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# EU Funding & Tenders Portal EU Funding & Tenders Portal * Results & Innovation support * SME Self-assessment tool Home Funding Calls for proposals Regional Cable Hubs DIGITAL-ECCC-2025-DEPLOY-CYBER-09-CABLEHUBS * Conditions and documents * Partner search announcements Digital Europe Programme (DIGITAL) Deploying Strategic Cyber Capabilities Across Europe (DIGITAL-ECCC-2025-DEPLOY-CYBER-09) DIGITAL-JU-SIMPLE DIGITAL JU Simple Grants DIGITAL Action Grant Budget-Based [DIGITAL-AG] 31 March 2026 17:00:00 Brussels time The Regional cable hubs will contribute to enhancing and consolidating collective situational awareness and capabilities in detection, supporting the development of an operational capacities to ensure the security and resilience of undersea cables.
The hubs should act as a central point allowing for broader pooling of data and information relevant for the security environment of the cables, enabling the dissemination of threat information and incident detection on a regional scale and among a diverse set of national actors as designated by each Member States (e.g. National Hubs, CSIRTs.)
The Hubs should allow a rapid exchange of information, even if classified among participating authorities in a given hub. To that end, the participating authorities shall set procedural arrangements on cooperation and information sharing. Furthermore, regional cable hubs could also benefit from additional solutions for the surveillance and protection of submarine cables, and the detection of malicious activities.
For instance, situational awareness performed through the collection and analysis of in-situ, sea-based sensor data as well as relevant satellite imagery or undersea drones capacities.
The Hubs could make use of existing systems which were not developed necessarily for Cable Security, such as the Integrated Maritime Systems, the Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE), the EU Copernicus Space Programme, and the Maritime Surveillance System. (MARSUR).
The Hubs should also integrate direct cooperation with private entities, especially cable operators to increase access – in a highly secured framework - to information on ongoing and future threats and voluntary incident reporting.
The Hubs should progressively also integrate the defence dimension, as any defence capacities is likely to increase the situational awareness as well as the capacity to respond fast in case of incident against these strategic critical infrastructures.
To that end, Member States can integrate in the operations of the Hubs their defence capacities (e.g. navy or surveillance system) and operational command while building on international partnerships.
To support the above activities of a Regional Cable Hub, a grant will be available to cover, among others, the preparatory activities for setting up the Regional Cable Hub, its interaction and cooperation between its members and with other stakeholders, as well as the running/operating costs involved, enabling the effective operation of the Regional Cable Hub.
The grant could also be used to cover the acquisition of the infrastructures, tools and services needed to build-up the Regional Cable Hub but also to equip it with the necessary capacities to enhance the security and resilience of undersea cables, such as detection capacities.
These actions aim at creating or strengthening Regional Cable Hubs, which occupy a central role in ensuring the Security and resilience of strategic and critical infrastructures, providers of essential services such as global connectivity and power supply. As previously noted, Regional Cable Hubs will have a crucial operative role in ensuring the security of undersea cables in the Union and will handle sensitive information.
Pursuant to Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2021/694, participation to the calls funded under this topic will be therefore subject to the restrictions of Article 12(5), as specified in Appendix 3 of this Work Programme.
As part of the EU Action Plan on Cable Security, it was announced that the Commission, together with voluntary Member States, will work on Cable Integrated Surveillance Mechanisms per sea basin (‘Regional Cable Hubs’) to enhance the detection capacity against threats to undersea cables as they are critical infrastructure.
Taking into account the fact that these cables are covered by the scope of NIS2 Directive that follows an all-hazards approach, it is crucial to protect their physical environment from events such as malicious acts, including cuts as integral part of the cable cybersecurity measures.
The objective is to support the progressive establishment of Regional Cable hubs, one per sea basins of the EU, whose role will be to concretely enhance threats detection and operational security around these strategic infrastructures.
This action is therefore aimed at supporting the set-up of processes, tools and services for detection and analysis of emerging threats, to establish a near real time situational awareness to protect the undersea cables.
It includes the capacity to aggregate data and security information from all available sources (including established systems such as the Integrated Maritime System, or CISE, or National Cyber Hubs) and analyse them in an automated way. The action will support also the establishment of a reporting incident function and a procedure for information sharing between relevant national authorities.
Additionally, structured partnership with private sector to enhance the voluntary information sharing for cable security as well as the potential and progressive integration of the relevant defence dimension capacities – in a dual use approach – could be considered in the action.
Should the participating Member States so decide, the regional cable hubs could coordinate the deployment and activation of modular repair equipment across a sea basin. Finally, the scope could also cover the acquisition of additional capacities, equipment, tools, instruments or services useful for the enhancing the resilience and security of undersea cables.
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Cybersecure tools, technologies and services relying on AI is sponsored by European Commission — Digital Europe Programme. Cybersecure tools, technologies and services relying on AI is a grant from the European Commission — Digital Europe Programme that funds the development, testing, and deployment of AI-powered cybersecurity tools for national and cross-border Cyber Hubs, CSIRTs, NCSCs, and NIS 2 …
Coordinated preparedness testing and other preparedness actions is sponsored by European Commission — Digital Europe Programme. 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: As part of the ECCC Work Programme 2025-2027, this topic 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. Please note that (1) coordinated preparedness testing of entities operating in sectors of high criticality across the Union is subject to the current Call for proposals while (2) other preparedness actions will be covered only in 2026 and 2027 calls for proposals. For more details on the action (1) covered under the current call for proposals, please consult the Call document accordingly. 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 threats and incidents by providing them with knowledge and expertise. Proposals should contribute to achieving at least one of the following objectives: (part 1) Coordinated preparedness testing of entities operating in sectors of high criticality across the Union (including penetration testing and threat assessment) considering ICT as well as Operational Technology/Industrial Control Systems. (part 2) Other preparedness actions for entities operating in sectors of high criticality and other critical sectors (i.e. vulnerability monitoring, exercises and training courses). Scope: [Part 1 Coordinated preparedness testing] The provision of preparedness support services shall include the activities listed below, for entities in the sector or sub-sector as identified by the Commission in accordance with the Cyber Solidarity Act, from the Sectors of High Criticality listed in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2022/2555 and specified in the call for proposal document for each of the calls under this topic: Support for testing for potential vulnerabilities: Development of penetration testing scenarios. The proposed scenarios may cover Networks, Applications, Virtualisation solutions, Cloud solutions, Industrial Control systems, and IoT. Support for conducting testing of essential entities operating critical infrastructure for potential vulnerabilities. Support for the deployment of digital tools and infrastructures supporting the execution of testing scenarios and for conducting exercises such as the development of standardised cyber-ranges or other testing facilities, able to mimic features of critical sectors (e.g. energy sector, transport sector, etc.) or others affected by NIS 2 to facilitate the execution of cyber-exercises, in particular within cross-border scenarios where relevant. Evaluation and/or testing of cybersecurity capabilities of MS entities and MS sectors (including capabilities to prevent, detect and respond to incidents and stress test of the entire sectors ), evaluation and compliance activities aimed at increasing maturity, e.g. on the basis of established maturity models and/or relevant evaluation and compliance schemes. Evaluation and/or testing of cybersecurity capabilities of entities in scope (including for the evaluation and management of risks concerning the supply chain). Consulting services, providing recommendations on how Programme areas: DIGITAL Keywords: Assessment, Cybersecurity, Cyber Solidarity Act, Cybersecurity capabilities, Digital tools and infrastructures, Improve infrastructure security, Penetration testing scenarios, Risk assessment, Sectors of High Criticality, Threat assessment, Vulnerabilities, preparedness support services