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. 5 Communication "Towards a More Competitive and Efficient Defence and Security Sector", COM (2013) 542 15585/14 ANNEX FP/oza DG C 2B 10 EN

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