Description
Description (EN): Cybersecurity threats know no borders and are becoming more and more sophisticated.
In a fast changing world, increasingly dependent on digital services, breaches in cybersecurity are a threat to governments, businesses and citizens. They not only cause damages and costs. They also undermine trust of internet users.
The EU is investing in answers to these challenges. Its Digital Single Market Strategy is flanked by the EU Cyber Security Strategy (2013) and the Network and Information Systems Directives.
With these challenges, however, comes opportunity. Europe 2020 is designed to ensure that the EU economy addresses today’s main challenges, while promoting competitiveness. Cybersecurity fits into this aim. It presents an opportunity for SME competitiveness. If policy can help SMEs to overcome a series of barriers, SMEs can take advantage of the cybersecurity market as it expands at an astonishing rate.
CYBER overall objective is to boost competitiveness of cybersecurity SMEs, thanks to improved public policies. It involves public authorities that can help knock down barriers of market fragmentation, lack of coordination of regional actors and lack of skills. The innovation ecosystem is the thread that runs through CYBER’s suggested policy improvements.
Interregional cooperation is key to identifying solutions and moving towards a more integrated cybersecurity market. CYBER uses a series of interregional events and connects stakeholders to address common barriers to an interregional problem.
Thanks to policy improvements that help to create and strengthen innovation ecosystems, CYBER achieves improved competitiveness of EU cyber SMEs.
Medium-term results are to reduce fragmentation and ensure greater coherence between offer and market demand, with a chance to build up skills and merge competences. In the long term, by making the digital world safer, CYBER contributes to the development of the EU digital market.
Read more Expected Results (EN): CYBER’s overall objective is to boost competitiveness of cybersecurity SMEs, thanks to improved public policies, by addressing common barriers identified at EU level.
CYBER focuses on 3 major barriers: lack of coordination between relevant actors, market fragmentation and lack of skills. In accordance with needs identified by the Cybersecurity PPP, exchange focuses on policy improvements that can facilitate creation and growth of regional cybersecurity innovation ecosystems.
CYBER defines cybersecurity innovation ecosystems as networks of interconnected organisations that create new value through innovation, with an emphasis on market mechanisms. These interconnected organisations include policy makers, academia, business associations and SMEs. The ecosystem approach promotes regional competitiveness, by putting the SME at the centre as its final beneficiary. The cybersecurity innovation ecosystem has a formal structure (planning, management, actor involvement). It provides services to address SME’s market barriers and needs, including funding schemes and support to access private investment, capacity building, support for internationalisation and cyber-labels.
CYBER partners consider together how public policy can support creation and growth of the cybersecurity innovation ecosystem structure and services.
CYBER activities are structured to achieve the following sub-objectives:
- to foster interregional learning in the cybersecurity sector analysing structures and services of innovation ecosystems supporting SMEs;
- to develop regional Action Plans to create or reinforce innovation ecosystems;
- to implement and monitor Action Plans.
By promoting this learning process, CYBER achieves the medium term objective of increasing awareness on cybersecurity and opening new markets at regional and EU level. In the long term, CYBER has a positive impact on the implementation of the EU digital agenda, thanks to increased confidence in the security of the digital market.
Read more Expected Outputs (EN): CYBER produces the following outputs:
INTERREGIONAL EXCHANGE.
- 1 SWOT analysis per region on each identified barrier (lack of coordination, market fragmentation, lack of skills) – total 21.
- 1 layered map of critical operators presence in partner territories (P3).
- 7 LOcal Cybersecurity staKeholderS (LOCKS) groups set-up, with the organisation of at least 1 meeting per semester in Phase 1 (formal / informal events, use of existing networks).
- 8 Interregional meet-ups, with study visits.
- 7 staff exchanges.
- 14 Good Practices identified, shared and submitted to the Policy Learning Platform.
- 7 Action Plans developed in cooperation with LOCKS .
- 7 Action Plan monitoring reports produced during Phase 2.
- 90 members of staff and 140 LOCKS with increased capacity .
COMMUNICATION:
- 1 intranet to store documents;
- 1 website on the Interreg Europe page connected to social media;
- 1 brochure / 2 e-newsletters
- 7 regional dissemination events;
- 1 EU Engagement Event in Phase 1; 1 final dissemination event in Phase 2.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT:
- 1 Subsidy Contract and 1 Partnership Agreement signed;
- 1 Steering Group created, with 1 meeting per semester in Phase 1 / 1 per year in Phase 2;
- 1 Project Management Guidelines
- 1 Monitoring and Evaluation system set up and implemented;
- 8 periodic reports submitted via iOLF with quantitative / qualitative information on project activities / impact at regional level.
Thanks to targeted activities and active participation of all partners and LOCKS, CYBER achieves the following results:
- improved cohesion among regional LOCKS in terms of understanding of shared needs, viable solutions, common challenges related to cybersecurity;
- development of Action Plans to create (P5,P6,P7,P8) or grow (LP/P2, P4,P9) innovation ecosystems on cybersecurity, based on the key components identified thanks to interregional exchange;
- policy instrument improvements with the inclusion of cyber-specific targeted actions, obtained thanks to new projects, new management structures and new strategic focuses.
Thanks to the deployment of support services to access funding, identify talents, penetrate new markets and scale-up in the framework of an integrated innovation ecosystem, CYBER achieves improved competitiveness of EU cyber SMEs.
By implementing its Communication Strategy, CYBER increases awareness on cybersecurity and on the support available thanks to public policy, thus potentially opening up new markets (i.e. services for public administration, cybersecurity labels, etc.). This has a positive impact on cyber SME growth in Europe.
Medium-term results are to reduce fragmentation and ensure greater coherence between offer and market demand, with a chance to build up skills and to merge competences.
In the long term, by making the digital world safer, CYBER contributes to the development of the European digital market, with positive impact on EU businesses in various sectors (producers of solutions and sectors at risk).
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Themes
Specific Objective:
Improve the implementation of regional development policies and programmes, in particular programmes for Investment for Growth and Jobs and, where relevant, ETC programmes, supporting SMEs in all stages of their life cycle to develop and achieve growth and engage in innovation
Thematic Objective:
(03) enhancing the competitiveness of SMEs by:
Investment Priority:
(03d) supporting the capacity of SMEs to grow in regional, national and international markets, and to engage in innovation processes
Partners
Lead Partner:
Bretagne Développement Innovation
Department:
Pole Europe
Address:
1 bis, route de Fougères, 35510 Cesson-Sévigné, France
Legal status:
public
Website:
http://www.bdi.fr
Total budget:
EUR 342 760.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 291 346.00
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Riigi Infosüsteemi Amet
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Name:
Riigi Infosüsteemi Amet
Department:
Cybersecurity Branch
Address:
Pärnu maantee 139a, 15169 Tallinn, Estonia
Legal status:
public
Website:
http://www.ria.ee
Total budget:
EUR 196 785.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 167 267.25
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ICE - Instituto para la Competitividad Empresarial
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Name:
ICE - Instituto para la Competitividad Empresarial
Department:
Innovation and Entrepreneurship Department
Address:
Jacinto Benavente Street, 2, 47195 Arroyo de la Encomienda, Spain
Legal status:
public
Website:
http://www.empresas.jcyl.es
Total budget:
EUR 207 770.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 176 604.50
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Agence du Numérique
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Name:
Agence du Numérique
Address:
133 Avenue Prince de Liège, 5100 Jambes, Belgium
Legal status:
public
Website:
http://www.digitalwallonia.be
Total budget:
EUR 213 555.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 181 521.75
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European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO)
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Name:
European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO)
Address:
Rue Montoyer 10, 1000 Brussels, Belgium
Legal status:
private
Total budget:
EUR 201 640.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 151 230.00
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Conseil régional de Bretagne
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Name:
Conseil régional de Bretagne
Department:
Department of Economic Affairs
Address:
283 Avenue du Général Patton, 35711 Rennes, France
Legal status:
public
Total budget:
EUR 122 535.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 104 154.75
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Regione Toscana
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Name:
Regione Toscana
Department:
Department of Organisation and Information Systems
Address:
Palazzo Sacrati Strozzi – Piazza del Duomo 10, 50122 Firenze, Italy
Legal status:
public
Website:
http://www.regione.toscana.it
Total budget:
EUR 190 880.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 162 248.00
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Gospodarska zbornica Slovenije
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Name:
Gospodarska zbornica Slovenije
Department:
Association of Informatics and Telecommunications and Project Office
Address:
Dimiceva ulica 13, 1504 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.gzs.si
Total budget:
EUR 202 620.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 151 965.00
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Košice IT Valley z.p.o.
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Name:
Košice IT Valley z.p.o.
Address:
Letna 9, 4001 Kosice, Slovakia
Legal status:
private
Website:
http://www.itvalley.sk
Total budget:
EUR 185 697.00
ERDF budget:
EUR 139 272.75
