{"id":2179,"date":"2020-05-21T07:54:01","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T07:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2020-05-21T07:54:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T07:54:01","slug":"eu-grants-nearly-e49-million-to-boost-innovation-in-cybersecurity-and-privacy-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"EU grants nearly \u20ac49 million to boost innovation in cybersecurity and privacy systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission announced that it will commit nearly 41 million Euro, through Horizon 2020, the EU\u2019s research and innovation programme, to support 9 projects aimed at working on innovative cybersecurity and privacy solutions.<\/p>\n<p>Five of these new projects will concentrate on cybersecurity and privacy solutions for citizens and small and medium businesses (SMEs). The other four projects will work on improving critical security systems, such as healthcare infrastructures and multimodal transport systems.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/digital-single-market\/en\/news\/21-new-eu-funded-projects-assist-eu-member-states-building-their-cybersecurity-capabilities-and\">21 projects<\/a> will be funded through the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/inea\/en\/connecting-europe-facility\">Connecting Europe Facility<\/a> (CEF), the European networks and infrastructures programme, also covering the digital sector. With a total of 7.6 million Euro , the latter projects will strengthen the EU\u2019s cybersecurity capacity to be better prepared and counter more efficiently cyber-threats and incidents. Three hospitals in Croatia and Latvia will, for example, increase their preparedness by implementing technical and organisational improvements, while an Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) for the Italian aviation sector will be set up. The support to the new projects is part of the EU\u2019s commitment to build a strong cybersecurity culture and capabilities to resist and respond to future cyber threats and attacks. More information on the EU&#8217;s actions to strengthen cybersecurity capacities, including for 5G networks, is available in this <a href=\"https:\/\/europa.eu\/rapid\/press-release_QANDA-19-3369_en.htm#_blank\">Q&amp;A<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Information about EU-funded cybersecurity projects is available <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/inea\/en\/connecting-europe-facility\/cef-telecom\/projects-by-dsi\/cyber-security\">here<\/a>, and for new funding opportunities see <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/funding-tenders\/opportunities\/portal\/screen\/programmes\/h2020\">current Horizon 2020<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/inea\/en\/connecting-europe-facility\/cef-telecom\/apply-funding\/2020-cef-telecom-calls-proposals\">upcoming CEF calls<\/a> on Security, Digital Security, Artificial Intelligence and Infrastructure protection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission announced that it will commit nearly 41 million Euro, through Horizon 2020, the EU\u2019s research and innovation programme, to support 9 projects aimed at working on innovative cybersecurity and privacy solutions. Five of these new projects will concentrate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5],"tags":[277,343],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2182,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsourcing-today.ro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}