European Fundend Projects

  • ID:
    projects-561
  • fiwar:
    101127970
  • Project_Acronym:
    ATHENA
  • Project_Name:
    Boosting cyber resilience of critical infrastructure in the water sector through innovative and co-created competence building by consortium partners and their suppliers.
  • Funding Authority:
    DEP
  • Call for proposals:
    DIGITAL-ECCC-2022-CYBER-03-UPTAKE-CYBERSOLUTIONS
  • Focus Area:
    Not applicable
  • Begin Date:
    2023-09-01
  • End Date:
    2026-11-30
  • Status:
    On going
  • Budget:
    € 003 042 192.97
  • Description:
    "Head of Cabinet EC VP M Schinas, stated in 2022: "" We now need to make sure that we address what could become our biggest challenge: how to have the right people with the right skills to shield our citizens and our economies from ever more pervasive cyberattacks across all critical sectors. Emphasising a dire need and urgency for upskilling competences of Professionals at Industrial Automisation in preparedness for cyber-attacks. The EU aims to strengthen cyber resilience, in Critical Infrastructure (CI). The backbone of CI is Operational Technology (OT or Industrial Automation (IA)). With regulations, the EU focuses on what to do. ENISA publishes supporting information on how to act. The Problem: For CI in the water sector, the challenge is especially demanding: Public water utilities are often operated in traditional working routines. Public institutions and SME are closely intertwined in this sector, resulting in both being equally integrated in the procedures and responsibility for counteraction under cyber-attacks. The Challenge: Competence required at all operational levels. In addition, climate change is underlining the relevance of this sector. Compliance of the NIS2 directive to ensure sufficient cybersecurity training (see chapter 1.2.), for integrated and urgent action. ATHENA will: - Improve cybersecurity protection readiness of the water sector, thereby targeting the integrated system of closely intertwined SME (service SME, solution providers, etc.) and public employees. - Enrich ENISA’s portfolio through up-to-date cybersecurity competence trainings in the water sector (classic/metaverse) - Enable staff along the entire chain of execution to respond to incidents that fits into the general operational and management strategies of the water sector. - Increase cybersecurity awareness raising, prevention, education, and training in the EU’s water sector "
  • Resource:
    https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/projects-details/43152860/101127970/DIGITAL
  • Inland water types:
    Urban water'