Welcome to an international cybersecurity networking event focusing on EU funding opportunities and strengthening cooperation with other European actors!
Connect4Cyber – Brokerage and Info Day
When? Wednesday 27 August 2025
Where? Team Finland House (Porkkalankatu 1, 00180 Helsinki). Please find instructions on how to get there on the website of Business Finland. (External link)
Language of instruction: English
What?
Connect4Cyber – Brokerage and Info Day brings together cybersecurity actors from Finland and across Europe to discuss current calls under the Digital Europe (DEP) and Horizon Europe programmes, share project ideas, and build international consortia. The event focuses on calls targeted at the health sector, PQC (Post-Quantum Cryptography) themes, and funding opportunities for SMEs.
Preliminary list of funding calls the event will focus on (to be updated as calls open):
- DIGITAL-ECCC-2025-DEPLOY-CYBER-08-CYBERHEALTH: Dedicated action to reinforcing hospitals and healthcare providers (External link)
- DIGITAL-ECCC-2025-DEPLOY-CYBER-08-PUBLICPQC: Transition to post-quantum Public Key Infrastructures (External link)
- Uptake of innovative cybersecurity solutions for SMEs (DEP)
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-02-CS-ECCC-04: Security Evaluation of Post-Quantum primitives (External link)
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-02-CS-ECCC-05: Security implementations of Post-Quantum Cryptography algorithms (External link)
- HORIZON-CL3-2025-02-CS-ECCC-06: Integration of Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms into high-level protocols (External link)
The event is organised by the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom and its National Coordination Centre (NCC-FI), in collaboration with the Estonian Information Security Authority (RIA), the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) and its National Coordination Centre for Research and Innovation in Cybersecurity (NCC-SE), Business Finland, and the Finnish Information Security Cluster (FISC).
The event offers:
- up-to-date information on EU funding calls
- expert presentations from the field of cybersecurity
- an opportunity to present and hear project ideas
- a chance to find partners for future projects
Registration
The event is free of charge, but requires advance registration. Registration is open until 13 August 2025 or until capacity is reached.
Preliminary program (subject to change):
| Time | Program | Speaker | |
| 09:45–10:30 | Registration and networking with coffee | ||
| 10:30 | Welcoming remarks | Anssi Kärkkäinen, Director General of NCSC-FI, Deputy Director General of Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom | |
| 10:45 | Opening keynote: The benefits of the European cybersecurity cooperation and networking | Luca Tagliaretti, Executive Director, ECCC | |
| 11:00 | Thematic keynote: Cybersecurity in the health sector | ||
| 11:15 | Thematic keynote: Future prospects and limitations in PQC for research, development and business | Visa Vallivaara, Research Team Lead, VTT | |
| 11:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:50 | Presentation of funding calls in cybersecurity | ECCC | |
| 12:30 | Lunch | ||
| 13:20 | Panel discussion: From product development to market - Scaling up innovations through European collaboration | ||
| 14:00 | Pitching session | ||
| 15:00 | Networking and coffee | Drop-in proposal support
Ask about your project proposal and application between 3 pm and 6 pm. | |
| 15:30 | Tips & tricks: How to write a project proposal | ||
| 16:30 | Closing remarks and networking with snacks and refreshments | ||
| 18:00 | Event ends | ||
An updated program will be published on the event website in due time.
Information about the pitching session
Interested participants have the possibility to present their project ideas in the pitching session.
Instructions are as follows:
- Participants are requested to submit their pitch slides by 15 August 2025 at the latest to ncc-fi@traficom.fi . A confirmation of receipt will be sent within a few business days.
- If the number of submitted pitches exceeds the available time reserved for the pitching session, the organisers will select presentations based on their relevance to the themes and objectives of the event. All those who have submitted pitch slides will be informed of the outcome prior to the event.
- Participants may use their own slide design, but the slides are recommended to include at least the following information:
- Name of the presenter and the organisation
- Summary of the project idea, objectives, expected outcomes and impacts, and/or the organisation’s expertise and potential role in the project
- Description of desired consortium partners
- Calls in which your organisation is interested
- Each presentation is up to four minutes.
- One separate slide set is requested per pitch. If a participant has multiple project ideas, please submit a separate slide set for each.
- Presentations received after the deadline may be considered if there is still time available during the pitching session.
- All pitching presentations (including those not presented during the event due to time constraints) will be shared as PDF files with the other participants, unless the contributors request otherwise. If you prefer not to share your presentation, please let us know when submitting it.
For more information about the event, please contact ncc-fi@traficom.fi .
A warm welcome to the event!