The Copenhagen Project

Europe’s critical infrastructure, spanning energy grids, healthcare systems, transport networks, and digital services, is increasingly under threat from sophisticated cyberattacks and hybrid operations. Between July 2023 to June 2024, the EU faced over 11.000 cyberattacks, nearly 7 incidents every day. This included 220 cross-border cases.

Despite these growing challenges, the EU lacks today a unified investment framework to scale and deploy advanced digital defence technologies such as AI-driven threat detection, anti-drone systems, satellite monitoring, and digital twins across Member States. This fragmentation hampers collective resilience and slow innovation in critical sectors. To protect our critical infrastructure and reduce Europe’s dependency on foreign technologies and services, we urgently need a secure, dual-use digital infrastructure backbone across Europe.  

Project scope: 

• Launch an EU-wide investment programme to scale dual-use digital defence technologies across energy, water, transport, healthcare, and data infrastructure. 

• Pilot real-world applications of advanced technologies (i.e. anti-drone systems, secure AI communications, threat detection platforms) under battlefield-informed and stress-tested conditions. 

• Introduce an EU “anchor customer” mechanism to guarantee early demand and lower market entry risk for innovators and SMEs. 

KPIs by 2030: 

• Total volume of joint public-private investment mobilised across Member States for digital infrastructure resilience. 

• Number of critical infrastructure sites equipped with interoperable, dual-use digital defence technologies.