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Strengthening cybersecurity capacities of European SMEs with cybersecure AI-powered solutions is sponsored by European Commission — Digital Europe Programme. Expected Outcome: Support the adoption of market-ready innovative AI-powered cybersecurity solutions, including solutions developed in the framework of EU-supported research and innovation projects. Provide and deploy up to date AI-powered tools and services to organisations (in particular SMEs) to prepare, protect and respond to cybersecurity threats. Integrate AI technologies into cybersecurity processes to improve the security of ICT solutions, including providing innovative approaches to training employees to use AI solutions for cybersecurity. Deployment of cybersecure tools and technologies relying on trustworthy AI; AI driven cybersecurity tools; Integration of tools to protect and secure AI solutions. Objective: To support the market uptake and dissemination of innovative AI-powered cybersecurity solutions (notably in SMEs, possibly using results stemming from Horizon Europe projects or similar) and improve knowledge and auditing of cybersecurity preparedness. SMEs often lack the resources to assess cyber risks, develop cybersecurity strategies and implement solutions, leaving them vulnerable to cyberattacks. The resilience of organisations that fall into this category is key to the prosperity of the EU single market. Cyber risk assessment and management can be significantly enhanced and simplified with the application of AI-based tools and solutions. However, this requires an understanding of the evolving technology landscape, of the benefits of technology integration and of deployment prioritisation. Faced with organisational and financial constraints, the SMEs may be missing the opportunity to fully harness AI-powered solutions to advance their cybersecurity and resilience. Cybersecurity is the precondition for reliable, secure and resilient AI models and algorithms. Cybersecurity of AI is not just about protecting AI systems against threats such as poisoning and evasion attacks, as it also involves ensuring they have trustworthiness features such as human oversight and robustness – the ability to resist cyberattacks, as required by the EU’s AI Act for high-risk AI systems. The need for human oversight of AI has also been emphasised by experts. Also, the use of AI at the SME level supporting the integration of predictive algorithms can greatly support to a bottom-up approach when dealing with vulnerability detections, threat mitigation and more efficient coordinated incident response. Scope: This action aims to increase the maturity of cyber risk management and improve the cyber resilience and ultimately foster a technologically advanced culture of cybersecurity for SMEs in the EU. Actions in this topic should develop and deploy AI-powered products, tools and services for European SMEs, also enabling the detection/discovery of attack patterns. Proposals should cover the development or adaptation of the software/hardware and the validation of the solutions. It foresees the automation of fundamental cybersecurity processes, in particular in small market organisations, through a SaaS toolkit tailored to the needs of SMEs. This toolkit should allow SMEs to improve the key aspects of their cybersecurity by providing user-friendly tools for risk management [1], threat detection, incident response and notification, to improve their cyber hygiene and mitigate potential threats while protecting personal data. The cyber toolkit should also provide cyber-incident prediction and response functions to improve SMEs’ resilience. Activities should include at least one of the following: Uptake/adoption of AI-powered cybersecurity tools in organisations where this has not yet taken place. Development of user-friendly sets of tools (e.g. toolkit) based on AI to automate main cybersecurity processes in SMEs. Such a toolkit could provide automated functions such as: A function that supports the assessment and management of an SME’s cybersecurity risks. This function should perform a risk assessment, provide recommendations for risk miti
Programme areas: DIGITAL
Keywords: Analytics tools, Artificial Intelligence & Decision support, Artificial intelligence, Assessment, Capacity building, Continuing professional training, Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity-aware culture (e.g. including children education), Data Security and Privacy, Data protection, Education and Training, IT skills and competence, Innovation, Machine learning, statistical data processing and applications using signal processing (e.g. speech, image, video), Managerial, procedural and technical aspects of network security, Privacy, SME support, Sme Business Development, Technological innovation, Training, AI-powered Cybersecurity, Capacity Building, Cyber Hygiene, Cyber Resilience, Cyber Risk Management, Incident Response, SME Digital Transformation, SME Support, SaaS Security Tools, Security Awareness, Trustworthy AI, Vulnerability Detection
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Open to legal entities established in EU Member States and countries associated to Horizon Europe (including EEA/EFTA countries, and other associated third countries). Action type: DIGITAL-JU-SME DIGITAL JU SME Support Actions. Additional conditions: "> Conditions 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... See the official call documentation on the F&T Portal for full eligibility criteria and participation rules. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows €96M total budget (~$103.7M USD) ; up to €2.5M per project ; ~2 grants expected. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for Strengthening cybersecurity capacities of European SMEs with cybersecure AI-powered solutions are due January 14, 2027. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
Strengthening cybersecurity capacities of European SMEs with cybersecure AI-powered solutions is funded by European Commission — Digital Europe Programme. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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