About the cPPP
As part of the EU cybersecurity strategy, the European Commission and the European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) signed EU's first contractual Public-Private Partnership on 5 July 2016.
The aim of the partnership is to foster cooperation between public and private actors at early stages of the research and innovation process in order to allow people in Europe to access innovative and trustworthy European solutions (ICT products, services and software). These solutions take into consideration fundamental rights, such as the right for privacy and data protection.
It also aims to stimulate cybersecurity industry, by helping align the demand and supply sectors to allow industry to elicit future requirements from end-users, as well as essential sectors that are important customers of cybersecurity solutions (e.g. energy, health, transport, finance).
The cPPP has proven to be instrumental in structuring and coordinating digital security industrial resources in Europe. It includes a wide range of actors, from innovative SMEs to producers of components and equipment, critical infrastructure operators and research institutes, brought together under the umbrella of ECSO.
The EU invested up to €450 million in this partnership, under its research and innovation programme Horizon 2020. Cybersecurity market players are expected to invest three times more.
Reference documents establishing the cPPP
- ECS cPPP – 2016 Industry Proposal (download file)
- ECS cPPP – 2016 Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda (download file)
- Contract of Public- Private Partnership (download file)
- Communication: Strengthening Europe's Cyber Resilience System and Fostering a Competitive and Innovative Cybersecurity Industry (download file)
- Commission Decision to establish a contractual public private partnership on cybersecurity (cPPP) (download file)
- Commission Staff working document on cPPP and accompanying measures (download file)
- Commission Staff working document on assessment of cybersecurity in EU's Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) and the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) (download file)
- Commission Staff working document on Consultation Process (download file)
cPPP Monitoring Reports
- 2018 -cPPP Progress Monitoring Report (download file)
- 2016 - 2017: cPPP Progress Monitoring Report (download file)
Governance
The Partnership Board is the formal communication channel between the European Commission and the ECSO Association to discuss the Horizon 2020 Cybersecurity cPPP Work Programme, the implementation of the overall R&I programme related topics and the monitoring of the cPPP commitments (Key Progress Indicators). It allows for an open dialogue between the members to reach the objectives foreseen by the contractual arrangement between the European Commission and ECSO. It provides oversight such as monitoring, advising, community support etc. The Partnership Board is composed by representative from the European Commission and ECSO Members (with exclusion of representatives from national public administrations).
List of members
Ericsson
F-Secure Corporation
Leonardo S.p.a. – Leonardo-S.p.A
Secunet Security Networks AG
Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A.
Conceptivity sarl
RadarServices Smart IT-Security GmbH
S2 Grupo de Innovacón en Procesos Organizativos S.L.
DIGITAL SME - European DIGITAL SME Alliance
EOS – European Organisation for Security
EUROSMART
FISC – Finnish Information Security Cluster
Teletrust - IT Security Association Germany
TDL - Trust in Digital Life
FORTH – Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
IMT – Institut Mines-Télécom
TECNALIA – Fundación Tecnalia Research & Innovation
cPPP Calls for proposals
Opened calls
Closed calls
- DS-06-2017: Cybersecurity PPP: Cryptography
- DS-07-2017: Cybersecurity PPP: Addressing Advanced Cyber Security Threats and Threat Actors
- DS-08-2017: Cybersecurity PPP: Privacy, Data Protection, Digital Identities
- SU-ICT-03-2018: Establishing and operating a pilot for a Cybersecurity Competence Network to develop and implement a common Cybersecurity Research & Innovation Roadmap
- SU-DS04-2018-2020: Cybersecurity in the Electrical Power and Energy System (EPES): an armour against cyber and privacy attacks and data breaches
- SU-DS01-2018: Cybersecurity preparedness - cyber range, simulation and economics
- SU-DS05-2018-2019: Digital security, privacy, data protection and accountability in critical sectors
- SU-ICT-01-2018: Dynamic countering of cyber-attacks
- SU-ICT-04-2019: Quantum Key Distribution testbed
- SU-INFRA01-2018-2019-2020: Prevention, detection, response and mitigation of combined physical and cyber threats to critical infrastructure in Europe
- SU-ICT-01-2018: Dynamic countering of cyber-attacks
- SU-ICT-02-2020: Building blocks for resilience in evolving ICT systems
- SU-INFRA02-2019: Security for smart and safe cities, including for public spaces
- SU-DS03-2019-2020: Digital Security and privacy for citizens and Small and Medium Enterprises and Micro Enterprises
- SU-DS03-2019-2020: Digital Security and privacy for citizens and Small and Medium Enterprises and Micro Enterprises