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AENAON Open Call 1
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Run by AENAON · Can apply alone
13 Nov 2026
Deadline
€100k
Per company
€2.1M
Total for all companies
What this call funds
This call offers sub-grants to test and validate cybersecurity technologies for offshore wind and critical infrastructure. It funds activities like vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, cyber range training and digital twin based validation. Projects run for 8 months and receive lump sum funding paid in three stages.
cybersecurity · digital twins · wind energy · sme scaleup
Who wins this
A cybersecurity provider, SME, research organisation or offshore wind operator that wants to test and validate its technology in realistic offshore wind critical infrastructure scenarios.
Could you win this call?
Only the website is required.
The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €100k
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- Cascade funding
- Partners
- Not required. You can apply on your own.
- Eligible applicants
- SME, startup, large enterprise, research organisation, university, offshore wind operator, manufacturer, public body
- Support to third parties
- Up to 100,000 euros per individual third party for offshore wind farm operators and manufacturers, otherwise up to 60,000 euros per third party, and up to 150,000 euros per action for small consortia.
- Also required
- Sub-project implementation period is 8 months, with a staged payment model of 30 percent on signature, 40 percent interim, 30 percent final.
- Sectors
- AI/ML · Cybersecurity · Deep Tech
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