Horizon Cluster 3: Civil Security for Society
A separate programme, with eligibility rules that come first.
Civil security and defence funding sit partly outside the standard framework, with ownership, control and country-of-establishment conditions that decide eligibility before the project is assessed at all.
Specific to this sector
Eligibility is decided by ownership and control
Conditions on where an entity is established, who controls it and where results may be used are formal disqualifiers here, not preferences, and they extend to consortium partners, so one partner can make a whole application ineligible. Establishing that first, against the call text, is worth more than any improvement to the proposal.
Where the money is
The programmes that fund this sector, European and national. Each is screened against your organisation rather than listed for you to read.
- Horizon Europe Cluster 3
- Civil security research
- European Defence Fund
- Separate programme, separate eligibility regime
- Internal Security Fund
- Capability and deployment rather than research
- National defence and security programmes
- Country-specific, often restricted
Alongside more than ten national funding sources. Most competitors cover one country at a time.
Who this covers
Eligibility in this sector depends as much on what kind of organisation you are as on what you are building.
- Security technology companies
- Dual-use and defence suppliers
- Border, crisis and disaster resilience
- Critical infrastructure operators
- Security research institutes
What kind of organisation are you?
The funding is the same. The argument for using us is not; it depends on whether you currently apply at all, pay somebody to, or answer for a whole territory.
See what Defence & Security funding you qualify for
Upload a project description and the platform screens it against every open programme in this sector, European and national.