Cybersecurity Innovation Fund - CIF-NL
The Netherlands is rapidly digitizing. This brings many opportunities, but also new risks. To make our society more digitally secure, continuous innovation in the field of cybersecurity is needed. The Cybersecurity Innovation Fund (CIF-NL) stimulates this innovation by supporting projects that contribute to strong and future-proof cybersecurity solutions. With this grant, you can work on developing or further improving products, services, or technologies that strengthen digital resilience.
Budget and application period
Webinar 18 December
There was a lot of interest in the information session on 9 December: all places were quickly filled. That is why we are organising an extra webinar (in Dutch) on Thursday 18 December. During this session, you will get a good idea of the new round of the Cybersecurity Innovation Fund (CIF-NL) subsidy scheme and the associated conditions. Register for the webinar.
2025 subsidy round
The 2025 subsidy round of CIF-NL focuses on 2 important sub-areas:
- Promoting crypto agility
- Simplifying cybersecurity solutions
The primary objective of this call round is to encourage Dutch companies to develop innovative solutions that can contribute to strengthening national cyber resilience as a product and/or service, with applications in both government and business. To be eligible for the subsidy, projects must demonstrably contribute to one of the 2 sub-areas.
More information about the content of the themes and the conditions you can find on the Dutch CIF-NL page.
CIF-NL 2025 conditions
You can find the conditions on the Dutch CIF-NL page.
Apply for CIF-NL
You can now submit your application for CIF-NL. Please go the Dutch CIF-NL page to submit your application.
CIF-NL 2023 projects awarded
In October 2023, the CIF-NL 2023 subsidy scheme was opened to companies and research organisations based in the Netherlands. With their cybersecurity innovation projects, they contributed to (one of) the following sub-areas:
- Automation of cybersecurity solutions
- Retention and development of personnel
- Proportional, secure and privacy-protecting data sharing
- Developing or scaling up small-scale cybersecurity solutions
For a summary of the projects, please visit the Dutch CIF-NL page. The conditions and assessment process for the CIF-NL 2025 subsidy scheme differ from those for the CIF-NL 2023 subsidy scheme.
About CIF-NL
CIF-NL is coordinated by NCC-NL (Netherlands Cybersecurity Coordination Centre). CIF-NL is funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC).
Questions?
Do you have any questions about the subsidy scheme? Please contact us at ncc-nl@rvo.nl.
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