Dedicated action to reinforcing hospitals and healthcare providers
Strengthening the Cybersecurity Ecosystem
Funding Amount
Amount not specified
Deadline
07/10/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution
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What is the Dedicated action to reinforcing hospitals and healthcare providers Call?
Grant Description
This call aims to strengthen the cybersecurity resilience of European hospitals and healthcare providers by supporting pilot projects to map common cybersecurity needs; develop assessment guidelines; create technical cybersecurity plans; deliver dedicated training courses; implement pilot demo installations; and conduct wide dissemination campaigns to improve detection, response, and operational continuity against cyber threats, particularly ransomware.
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
• A detailed mapping of hospitals’ and healthcare providers’ common cybersecurity needs.
• Practical guidelines enabling providers to assess their cybersecurity posture and identify priority areas for improvement.
• Tailored technical cybersecurity plans that enhance detection, monitoring and incident response capacities, minimizing the impact of cyberattacks—particularly ransomware—and including dedicated staff training courses.
• Pilot demo installations at partner sites that prove operational continuity under cybersecurity incidents, monitored via agreed KPIs.
• Wide-reaching dissemination campaigns facilitating adoption of best practices across European hospitals and healthcare providers.
• Strengthened ability of hospitals and healthcare organisations to detect, monitor and respond to cyber threats, contributing to the resilience of the European healthcare system and the EU action plan on cybersecurity in hospitals and healthcare.
• Practical guidelines enabling providers to assess their cybersecurity posture and identify priority areas for improvement.
• Tailored technical cybersecurity plans that enhance detection, monitoring and incident response capacities, minimizing the impact of cyberattacks—particularly ransomware—and including dedicated staff training courses.
• Pilot demo installations at partner sites that prove operational continuity under cybersecurity incidents, monitored via agreed KPIs.
• Wide-reaching dissemination campaigns facilitating adoption of best practices across European hospitals and healthcare providers.
• Strengthened ability of hospitals and healthcare organisations to detect, monitor and respond to cyber threats, contributing to the resilience of the European healthcare system and the EU action plan on cybersecurity in hospitals and healthcare.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
• Target stakeholders: legally constituted regional and/or national cluster associations of hospitals and healthcare providers (e.g. national health systems, hospital associations, professional bodies) alongside cybersecurity service providers.
• Define and assess the state of preparedness of hospital clusters in the EU to identify cybersecurity needs.
• Compile a state-of-the-art overview of needed solutions and resources: technologies, services, tools, human resources, training.
• Include examples such as Security Operation Centres, SIEM, threat-intelligence feeds, automated response capabilities.
• Develop technical plans tailored to representative hospitals (small/large, public/private) with best-practice deployment guidance and cost estimates.
• Execute demo implementations of these plans at partner sites, covering small, medium and large institutions in at least two Member States.
• Provide cybersecurity education and training to partner staff, enhancing awareness and safeguarding of sensitive data.
• Collaborate across pilot projects to undertake EU-wide dissemination of best practices with replication in mind.
• Ensure pilots support compliance with the NIS 2 Directive.
• Define and assess the state of preparedness of hospital clusters in the EU to identify cybersecurity needs.
• Compile a state-of-the-art overview of needed solutions and resources: technologies, services, tools, human resources, training.
• Include examples such as Security Operation Centres, SIEM, threat-intelligence feeds, automated response capabilities.
• Develop technical plans tailored to representative hospitals (small/large, public/private) with best-practice deployment guidance and cost estimates.
• Execute demo implementations of these plans at partner sites, covering small, medium and large institutions in at least two Member States.
• Provide cybersecurity education and training to partner staff, enhancing awareness and safeguarding of sensitive data.
• Collaborate across pilot projects to undertake EU-wide dissemination of best practices with replication in mind.
• Ensure pilots support compliance with the NIS 2 Directive.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
1. Admissibility: Proposals must respect page limits and layout rules as per Section 5 of the call document and Part B of the Application Form in the Submission System.
2. Eligible Countries & Entities: Defined in Section 6 of the call document; includes EU Member States plus Iceland and Norway; ‘cluster associations’ must be legally established in one or more Member States.
3. Financial & Operational Capacity and Exclusion Criteria: As per Section 7 of the call document.
4. Evaluation & Award: Submission and evaluation processes (Section 8 and Online Manual), award criteria, scoring and thresholds (Section 9), and indicative timeline (Section 4).
5. Legal & Financial Grant Setup: Detailed in Section 10 of the call document and the Model Grant Agreement (DEP MGA).
6. Action Types and Models: DIGITAL-JU-SIMPLE (Simple Grants) or DIGITAL-AG (Budget-Based Action Grant), single-stage submission.
7. Deadline: 07 October 2025, 17:00:00 Brussels time.
8. Budget Caps: Total budgets per topic code (CyberHealth: €30 M; NCC: €10 M; PublicPQC: €15 M in 2025).
9. Compliance: Pilot projects must support healthcare institutions’ compliance with the NIS 2 Directive.
10. Support Contacts: National Cybersecurity Coordination Centres (NCCs) and the ECCC Applicants Direct Contact Centre (applicants@eccc.europa.eu).
2. Eligible Countries & Entities: Defined in Section 6 of the call document; includes EU Member States plus Iceland and Norway; ‘cluster associations’ must be legally established in one or more Member States.
3. Financial & Operational Capacity and Exclusion Criteria: As per Section 7 of the call document.
4. Evaluation & Award: Submission and evaluation processes (Section 8 and Online Manual), award criteria, scoring and thresholds (Section 9), and indicative timeline (Section 4).
5. Legal & Financial Grant Setup: Detailed in Section 10 of the call document and the Model Grant Agreement (DEP MGA).
6. Action Types and Models: DIGITAL-JU-SIMPLE (Simple Grants) or DIGITAL-AG (Budget-Based Action Grant), single-stage submission.
7. Deadline: 07 October 2025, 17:00:00 Brussels time.
8. Budget Caps: Total budgets per topic code (CyberHealth: €30 M; NCC: €10 M; PublicPQC: €15 M in 2025).
9. Compliance: Pilot projects must support healthcare institutions’ compliance with the NIS 2 Directive.
10. Support Contacts: National Cybersecurity Coordination Centres (NCCs) and the ECCC Applicants Direct Contact Centre (applicants@eccc.europa.eu).
Important dates
Open from: 12/06/2025
Deadline:07/10/2025
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