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. Applications are expected to be accepted from December 2025 to February 2026.
2025 subsidy round
The 2025 subsidy round of CIF-NL focuses on two important themes:
- 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 two themes.
More information about the content of the themes, the conditions, and the funding percentage of this subsidy scheme will be announced shortly. Keep an eye on this page.
Information meeting December 9
During this meeting, you will gain a clear understanding of the new round of the Cybersecurity Innovation Fund (CIF-NL) subsidy scheme and the associated conditions. Read more about the information meeting (Dutch). The meeting will be held in Dutch.
CIF-NL 2025 conditions
The conditions for the 2025 subsidy scheme will be announced at a later date.
Preparing your application
It is expected, subject to change, that applications will be accepted from December 2025 to February 2026. Once the exact dates are known, the information will be posted on this page.
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
These sub-areas formed an important part of the assessment of the applications. A summary of the projects awarded will be available here shortly.
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).
In the coming period, this page will be further supplemented with the objectives, conditions and additional information about the 2025 subsidy scheme. Please note that the conditions and assessment process for the CIF-NL 2025 subsidy scheme will differ from those for the CIF-NL 2023 subsidy scheme.
Questions?
Do you have any questions about the subsidy scheme? Please contact us at ncc-nl@rvo.nl.
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