To facilitate civil-military cooperation in cyber defence capability development and to
strengthen the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base 5 in line with the EU
approach on cyber industry, the EDA together with the Commission services, as well as the
Member States will:
• Seek synergies of R&T efforts in the military sector with civilian Research & Development
programmes, such as HORIZON 2020, and consider the cyber security and defence
dimension when setting up the Preparatory Action on CSDP related research;
• Share cyber security research agendas between EU institutions and agencies (e.g. Cyber
Defence Research Agenda) notably through the European Framework Cooperation, and
share resulting roadmaps and actions;
• Support the development of industrial eco-systems and clusters of innovation covering the
whole security value chain by drawing on academic knowledge, SMEs innovation and
industrial production;
• Support EU policy coherence to ensure that policy and technical aspects of EU cyber
protection remain at the forefront of technology innovation and are harmonised across the
EU (cyber-threat analysis and assessment capability, "security by design" initiatives,
dependency management for technology access etc.);
• Contribute to improve the integration of cybersecurity and cyber defence dimensions in the
programmes that have a dual-use security and defence dimension, e.g. SESAR.
• Actively support synergies with the civilian cybersecurity industrial policy development
undertaken at national level by the Member States and at European level by the
Commission.
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