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Cybersecurity grants in Canada

Explore Cybersecurity grants for companies in Canada. This list brings together funding for security research, secure hardware, cryptography, threat detection and resilience from Canadian innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Canada, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Cybersecurity in Canada come first.

Showing 1-24 of 215 grants

Canada Foundation for Innovation logo
Open

CIRIF Intake 1

🇨🇦CFI · Canada

Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.

AIQuantum+8
CAD 6MOct'26
Canada Foundation for Innovation logo
Open

CIRIF Intake 2

🇨🇦CFI · Canada

Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.

AIQuantum+8
CAD 6MFeb'27
National Research Council Canada logo
Open

NRC IRAP Standard R&D Contribution

🇨🇦NRC · Canada

Provides Canadian innovators with hands-on guidance for technology-led projects and commercialization planning.

AgritechAI+13
CAD 75K – CAD 1M
Department of National Defence Canada logo
Open

Defence IDEaS — Competitive Projects

🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada

Offers research teams and institutions for Defence IDEaS Competitive Projects in defense innovation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.

DefenseAI+4
CAD 0 – CAD 6.8M
National Research Council Canada logo
Open

NRC IRAP Accelerated Review Program

🇨🇦NRC · Canada

Supports Canadian applied-innovation teams with faster review and rapid decisions for focused milestones.

AgritechAI+13
CAD 10K – CAD 50K
National Research Council Canada logo
Between cycles

e-Auto Challenge

🇨🇦NRC · Canada

Funds Canadian small businesses partnering with researchers on electric transport technology including power batteries and secure comms.

MobilityEnergy Tech+3
CAD 400K
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada logo
Between cycles

Innovative Solutions Canada — Testing Stream

🇨🇦ISED · Canada

Funds government validation of innovative Canadian solutions through real-world trials in complex operational environments.

CybersecurityQuantum+1
Department of National Defence Canada logo
Closed

Canadian Safety and Security Program — Collaborative Projects

🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada

Supports research teams and institutions for Canadian Safety and Security Collaborative Projects in defense innovation, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence.

DefenseCybersecurity+1
Department of Science and Technology (DST, India) logo
Closed

India-Canada Collaborative Industrial Research & Development Programme 2025

🇮🇳DST India · India

Funds joint India-Canada industrial R&D projects with a grant up to INR 1.5 crore per project.

Advanced ManufacturingClimate Tech+11
₹15M
EUREKA Network logo
Open

Eurostars Call 11

🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.

AIBiotech+12
Sep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Cyber: Robust & Private AI Systems

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds EU teams hardening AI systems against adversarial attacks and building privacy-preserving AI for sensitive government and enterprise use.

CybersecurityAI
€3M – €4MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Cybersecurity: Post-Quantum & High-Assurance Cryptography

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds €2-3M projects building post-quantum cryptographic schemes for digital ID wallets, or formally verified high-assurance cryptographic software.

Cybersecurity
€2M – €3MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Cybersecurity: Trusted Chips & Secure Software

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds five lump-sum grants, each €3-4M, for tools that harden chip design or software supply chains against tampering, backdoors, and compromised dependencies.

CybersecuritySemiconductors
€3M – €4MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Civil Security: Critical Communications System

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds one €3M project building rugged, post-quantum-secure comms devices for first responders that keep working without cellular coverage.

DefenseCybersecurity+1
€3MNov'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Security: Emerging-Tech Crime & Data Access

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds two €4.5M grants for police tools against emerging-tech crime and the lawful-data-access rules to match, run with Police Authorities as partners.

CybersecurityDefense
€4.5MNov'26
EUREKA Network logo
Open

Eureka Network Projects — Permanent

EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Offers open access collaboration through Eureka Network Projects so small enterprises can join international innovation groups.

AIBiotech+12
European Commission logo
Scheduled

3C Telco-Edge-Cloud Demand Pilots

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds two €19M pilots that put secure 3C telco-edge-cloud networks to work in mobility and another strategic vertical.

IoT & EdgeAI+3
€19MMar'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

AI Robotics Integration for Industry

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds an €18M pilot to make AI-driven industrial robots easier to integrate, safer to deploy and reusable across factories.

RoboticsAI+3
€18MMar'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Decentralised and Sustainable AI Processing

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds two €17.5M research projects that spread AI processing across sustainable, secure edge, cloud and HPC resources.

AIHardware+1
€17.5MMar'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

European Leadership in Global Digital Standards

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds a €7M action that helps European experts lead global digital standards and gives SMEs and researchers a stronger voice in ICT rule-making.

AICybersecurity+1
€7MMar'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Safe and Efficient Frontier AI

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds a €44M frontier-AI project that builds safer, more efficient European models with lower computational demands.

AICybersecurity+2
€44MMar'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Space Partnership: Connected Earth Observation and SatCom

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds €1.5–3M projects linking Earth observation and SatCom technologies for resilient, secure and commercially useful space services.

SpaceAI+2
€1.5M – €3MSep'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Horizon Cybersecurity: Post-Quantum & High-Assurance Cryptography

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds €3–4M research projects that harden post-quantum cryptography, verify implementations and build trusted digital identity protocols.

Cybersecurity
€3M – €4MSep'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

New primitives and protocols for future hybrid classical-quantum networks

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds foundational quantum-cryptography research for secure future hybrid networks.

QuantumCybersecurity
€4MSep'27

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