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Cybersecurity grants in the United Kingdom

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

Showing 25-48 of 258 grants

Defence and Security Accelerator logo
Closed

Defence Innovation Loans

🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom

Invests through United Kingdom Defence Innovation Loans in mature defence innovations to support late-stage commercialization.

DefenseHardware+1
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Closed

EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships Round 7

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom business-academia teams through partnerships that build strategic innovation in priority sectors.

AIQuantum+7
£500K
MassChallenge UK logo
Closed

MassChallenge UK Accelerator

🇬🇧MassChallenge UK · United Kingdom

Provides MassChallenge United Kingdom Accelerator participants with growth coaching, customer discovery, and investor preparation.

AICybersecurity+5
£20K
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Closed

Pre-announcement: Open-source semiconductor security platform development

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

One-year research projects to inform an open-source hardware security platform.

SemiconductorsCybersecurity+1
Innovate UK logo
Discontinued

Innovate UK Smart Grants

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds United Kingdom technology ventures across broad sectors through competitive grants for deep technology and innovation.

AgritechAI+13
£25K – £2M
National Cyber Security Centre (GCHQ) logo
Discontinued

NCSC for Startups

🇬🇧NCSC · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom cyber startups with mentoring and expertise from the national cyber security ecosystem.

Cybersecurity
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 Innovation Council logo
Open

EIC Transition Open

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.

AerospaceAgritech+22
€500K – €2.5MSep'26
European Innovation Council logo
Open

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.

AICybersecurity
€4MOct'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
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
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
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Secure Computing Continuum (IoT, Edge, Cloud, Data spaces)

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds resilient, privacy-preserving security for the IoT-to-cloud computing continuum.

AIIoT & Edge+1
€3M – €4MSep'27

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