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.
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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.
Eurostars Call 12 for projects
🇪🇺RVO · Netherlands
Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.
EUREKA Eurostars (Calls 10 and 11)
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports international consortia so small companies can turn joint innovation into export-ready products.
HMGCC Accelerate
Plexal · United Kingdom
Supports HMGCC Accelerate through a six week HMGCC and Plexal engineering programme for hardware and software security firms.
Microsoft Research Fellowship
🇺🇸Microsoft · United States
Funds research talent through annual fellowships for computing and artificial intelligence work.
NATO DIANA Challenge Programme
NATO DIANA · Global / Multinational
Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.
Co-Creation Accelerator 2026-2027
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Pairs early-stage deep tech startups with an industry partner for a four-month co-development sprint and pays up to €250,000 with no co-investment required.
Critical elements for energy security of grid and storage technologies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research addressing one of three specific risks to European energy-grid and storage security: cybersecurity, critical-material dependency, or public acceptance.
Cybersecure and resilient road e-mobility ecosystem (2ZERO Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one project up to EUR 10 million to harden electric-vehicle charging networks against cyberattacks ahead of the EU's 2027 Cyber-Resilience Act deadline.
Generative AI for Cybersecurity applications
🇪🇺ECCC · European Union
Funds generative-AI tools that detect and respond to cyberattacks, or that automate compliance with EU cybersecurity law.
Improved preparedness for, response to and recovery from large-scale critical-infrastructure disruptions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds monitoring, risk-assessment and stress-testing tools that help critical-infrastructure operators withstand and recover from major disruptions.
Innovation Study Tours 2026
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Pays organisations up to EUR 25,000 to design and run a short innovation study-tour programme.
Innovative space-based applications enhancing capabilities for a resilient Europe
🇪🇺EUSPA · European Union
Funds EUR 1.5-1.8 million demonstration projects that turn Galileo and EGNOS satellite navigation into commercial tools for crisis and security practitioners.
Integrating Post-Quantum Cryptography into high-level protocols
🇪🇺ECCC · European Union
Funds work that rebuilds widely used internet and authentication protocols to run securely on post-quantum cryptography.
Investigate quantum sensing and computing applied to ATM
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research exploring quantum computing, post-quantum cryptography and quantum sensing for air traffic management.
Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship
🇺🇸Microsoft · United States
Offers early-career faculty in the Americas recurring support through computing fellowships in applied research.
New advanced tools and processes for Operational Cybersecurity
🇪🇺ECCC · European Union
Funds cyber threat-intelligence, crisis-management or SOC/CSIRT tools that help EU cybersecurity authorities detect and respond to attacks faster.
Next generation ATS platform for airport operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds industrial research building AI-enabled, cyber-resilient next-generation airport air traffic control platforms.
Next generation ATS platforms for en-route and TMA operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds industrial research building AI-enabled, cyber-resilient next-generation air traffic control platforms.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies
🇪🇺ECCC · European Union
Funds cryptographic and privacy-preserving technologies that let organisations share and analyse sensitive data without exposing it.
Research to help shape the future regulatory framework for a DES
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research generating the technical evidence EASA needs to regulate automation, AI and safety in future air traffic management.