Cybersecurity grants in Germany
Explore Cybersecurity grants for companies in Germany. This list brings together funding for security research, secure hardware, cryptography, threat detection and resilience from German innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in Germany, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Cybersecurity in Germany come first.
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WIPANO Standards Participation for Companies
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German companies with up to 1,000 employees taking part in national, European, and international standardization committees through WIPANO.
WIPANO Patenting for Companies
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German small and medium-sized enterprises protecting their own research and development results with patents and other industrial property rights through WIPANO.
ERP Digitalization Loan and Grant (511/512)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds companies and freelancers in Germany delivering digitalization projects with subsidized loans and grants up to €200,000.
Research for Civil Security — Stichtag (Bekanntmachung: Richtlinie zur Förderung von Projekten zum Thema "Anwendungen in der zivilen Sicherheit")
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German projects in cyber and defense technologies that strengthen civil security applications.
WIPANO Knowledge Transfer through Standardization
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German companies and public research organizations that convert publicly funded research into technical standards through joint WIPANO cooperation projects.
ZIM R&D Cooperation Projects
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Administers collaborative grants for German firms and research partners to run joint innovation projects.
ZIM Individual R&D Projects
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Supports German small and medium-sized enterprises with technology-neutral projects for new products, processes, and services.
ZIM Feasibility Studies
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German small businesses preparing technology concepts for future project development and commercialization planning.
ZIM Innovation Networks
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Supports German innovation ecosystems by funding management of networks that connect multiple companies and institutions.
Digital Europe Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DeepRAP — Deep Reasoning, Abstraction and Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports cognitive AI development focused on trustworthy deep reasoning, abstraction, and planning capabilities.
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.
EIC Accelerator — Short Proposal
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.
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.