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 216 grants
CIRIF Intake 1
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
CIRIF Intake 2
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
NRC IRAP Standard R&D Contribution
🇨🇦NRC · Canada
Provides Canadian innovators with hands-on guidance for technology-led projects and commercialization planning.
Defence IDEaS — Competitive Projects
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Offers research teams and institutions for Defence IDEaS Competitive Projects in defense innovation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.
NRC IRAP Accelerated Review Program
🇨🇦NRC · Canada
Supports Canadian applied-innovation teams with faster review and rapid decisions for focused milestones.
e-Auto Challenge
🇨🇦NRC · Canada
Funds Canadian small businesses partnering with researchers on electric transport technology including power batteries and secure comms.
Innovative Solutions Canada — Testing Stream
🇨🇦ISED · Canada
Funds government validation of innovative Canadian solutions through real-world trials in complex operational environments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Eureka Network Projects — Permanent
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Offers open access collaboration through Eureka Network Projects so small enterprises can join international innovation groups.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
New primitives and protocols for future hybrid classical-quantum networks
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds foundational quantum-cryptography research for secure future hybrid networks.
Secure Computing Continuum (IoT, Edge, Cloud, Data spaces)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds resilient, privacy-preserving security for the IoT-to-cloud computing continuum.
Trusted, secure, quality future digital travel credentials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds secure, interoperable digital travel credentials and biometrics for safer border management.
Grid Control Rooms for a Resilient Electricity System
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €9.5M projects that modernise electricity transmission control rooms for more observable, stable and renewable-ready grids.
Horizon Energy: Smarter Distribution Grids
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €9.5M projects that make electricity distribution grids more flexible, resilient and efficient through advanced digital control.