Financial support for Finnish micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises to promote the commercialisation of innovative cybersecurity solutions
Digital Europe · Cascade funding
Summary
Not an R&D or investment call a Polish company can use, by Scindu's rule.
Funds Finnish SMEs piloting, optimising and developing innovative cybersecurity solutions with high technological readiness for commercialisation.
- Who can apply
- Companies can lead: SME.
- Amount
- €100K per projectTotal budget €700,000
- Deadline
- 05 Nov 2026 00:59 CETin 11 days
- Status
- Openopened 1 Sept 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
This call for proposals concerns granting a financial support for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises registered in Finland to support the market readiness and commercialisation of innovative cybersecurity solutions.
The call is open to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises registered in Finland.
Financial support may be provided for projects that aim to promote market readiness and commercialisation of innovative cybersecurity solutions. Financial support may be granted for example piloting, optimizing and other development measures supporting market readiness of the solution, as well as for other measures promoting the commercialization, market entry, uptake and determining the preconditions for internationalisation of a product or service.
Only innovative cybersecurity solutions with a high technological readiness level (TRL) shall be financed. Marketing actions, other sales promotion actions or export aid or aid contingent upon the use of domestic goods or services over imported one shall not be financed.
Financial support of a minimum of EUR 10,000 and a maximum of EUR 100,000 may be granted per project. There is a 30 % self-financing (co-funding) requirement per project. 70 % of the financial support is paid after the administrative funding decision and 30 % after the project report and actually incurred costs have been approved by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom.
You can find more information about the terms and conditions on the NCC-FI website: https://www.kyberturvallisuuskeskus.fi/en/our-activities/national-coordination-centre-cyber-security-research-development-and-innovation
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- SME
- Purpose
- Research and innovation
- R&D relevance
- 3 of 3
- Poland eligible
- No
- Country limit
- Finland; applicants must be registered in Finland.
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Unclear
- Readiness level (TRL)
- High; numerical level unspecified
- Per project
- €100K
- Topics
- Cybersecurity
- Technology piloting
- Product optimisation
- Market readiness
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Other condition
- Minimum grant €10,000; grant covers at most 70% of accepted actual project costs, with at least 30% own contribution; total call envelope max €700,000.
- Other condition
- 70% after positive funding decision; 30% after project completion against final report and actual costs.
- Other condition
- Bonuses/effort bonuses, non-statutory supplementary pensions, and salaries paid without a work obligation are ineligible.
- Other condition
- Costs must arise during 1 January–31 December 2027; final allowable support period is stated in the award decision.
- Other condition
- Eligible payroll is limited to evidenced project workdays; daily payroll cost is calculated as annual payroll cost/215; annual payroll cost is monthly project-period payroll cost ×12; salary may not materially deviate from pre-project salary.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €700,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Project funding, maximum
- €100,000
Personnel and services
Other role
Staff cost the grant can fund
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 1 Sept 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Digital Europe · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- Financial support for Finnish micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises to promote the commercialisation of innovative cybersecurity solutions
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 24 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 28 Aug 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 22 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.