CIPHER Open Call 1
Digital Europe · Cascade funding
Summary
A Polish company can use this call for R&D.
Supports cybersecurity experiments, validation, compliance audits and simulation infrastructure; eligible applicant types are not specified.
- Who can apply
- Unclear from the source.
- Amount
- €4,320,000Indicative budget
- Deadline
- 06 Jan 2027 23:00 CETin 74 days
- Status
- Forthcomingopens 26 Oct 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
Execution spans five specialized challenges categorized across three operational modes. Knowledge conducts NIS2 Article 21(2) compliance audits (K1) and benchmarks industrial pentesting kill-chains against CIPHER's automated suite (K2). Testing validates S3 WORM vulnerability pipelines (T1) and assesses telemetry ingestion within the XDR SaaS platform (T2). Range/Enablement contributes sector-emulation cyber ranges (R1) or authors Infrastructure as Code automation (P1).
Supported activities include running testbed experiments, refining automated threat detection, performing vulnerability assessments, establishing secure information sharing systems, and deploying cross-border simulation exercises. Submissions strictly close on January 6, 2027 (17:00 CET) without late exceptions. Access official documentation packages, guidelines, and application templates online at https://cipher-eu.com/open-call-1/.
Who can apply, in detail
- Purpose
- Research and innovation
- R&D relevance
- 2 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- —
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Unclear
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Topics
- Cybersecurity testing
- NIS2 compliance
- Automated threat detection
- Vulnerability assessment
- Cyber ranges
- Infrastructure as code
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €4,320,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
Call facts
- Opens
- 26 Oct 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Digital Europe · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- CIPHER Open Call 1
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 23 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 22 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.