European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC)

Overview

• Role: The European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) aims to increase Europe’s cybersecurity capacities and competitiveness, working together with a Network of National Coordination Centres to build a strong cybersecurity community.
• Executive Director: Luca Tagliaretti
• Governing Board: One representative from each Member State and two representatives from the Commission (and an alternate for each representative), observers include ENISA and the ECCC Executive Director (takes part in the meetings of the Governing Board but has no right to vote)
• Founded in: 2021
• Location: Bucharest, Romania
• Website: European Cybersecurity Competence Centre

The European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC), together with the Network of National Coordination Centres (NCCs), is Europe’s new framework to support innovation and industrial policy in cybersecurity. 

It seeks to: 

• reinforce EU leadership and strategic autonomy 
• support the Union’s technological capacities
• increase the global competitiveness of the Union’s cybersecurity industry

What the ECCC does

The ECCC develops and implements, with Member States, industry and the cybersecurity technology community, a common strategic agenda for technology development and for its wide deployment in areas of public interest and in businesses, in particular SMEs. 

The Centre and the Network together will enhance our technological sovereignty through joint investment in strategic cybersecurity projects.

Composition

The ECCC administrative and governance structure includes:

• a Governing Board which provides strategic orientation and oversees ECCC activities 
• an Executive Director who is the ECCC’s legal representative and is responsible for its day-to-day management
• a Strategic Advisory Group that ensures a comprehensive, ongoing and permanent dialogue between the community and the Competence Centre

How does the ECCC work?

Three levers of implementation: 

• strategic agenda: a comprehensive and sustainable cybersecurity industrial, technology and research strategy which sets out strategic recommendations for the development and growth of the European cybersecurity industrial, technological and research sector and strategic priorities for the Competence Centre’s activities
• financial instruments: Digital Europe Programme and Horizon Europe
• the cyber community: the network, the strategic advisory group and all European cybersecurity stakeholders

Further information

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Funding opportunities

National Coordination Centres