Financial support for Finnish micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises to promote the commercialisation of innovative cybersecurity solutions

Applications are submitted via an online application form. The application is sent with an annex of a project plan.

The proposals are evaluated by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom. Proposals that pass the eligibility check are evaluated by scoring with regards to relevance, implementation, and impact. Proposals with the highest score are presented for funding. After the evaluation process, all of the applicants receive an administrative decision.

The call is open to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises registered in Finland.

Financial support may be provided for projects that aim to promote market readiness and commercialisation of innovative cybersecurity solutions. Financial support may be granted for example piloting, optimizing and other development measures supporting market readiness of the solution, as well as for other measures promoting the commercialization, market entry, uptake and determining the preconditions for internationalisation of a product or service.

Only innovative cybersecurity solutions with a high technological readiness level (TRL) shall be financed. Marketing actions, other sales promotion actions or export aid or aid contingent upon the use of domestic goods or services over imported one shall not be financed.

Financial support of a minimum of EUR 10,000 and a maximum of EUR 100,000 may be granted per project. There is a 30 % self-financing (co-funding) requirement per project. 70 % of the financial support is paid after the administrative funding decision and 30 % after the project report and actually incurred costs have been approved by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom.

You can find more information about the terms and conditions on the NCC-FI website: https://www.kyberturvallisuuskeskus.fi/en/our-activities/national-coordination-centre-cyber-security-research-development-and-innovation