Cybersecurity: From Grants to Impact

Helmut Neukirchen, 10. September 2025

Eyvör NCC-IS, the National Coordination Centre for Cybersecurity in Iceland is holding on 11 September 2025, 08:30-12:30, an event on Cybersecurity: From Grants to Impact (registration needed). Those who got grants from Eyvör NCC-IS for increasing cybersecurity will present their results.

The Icelandic minister for infrastructure and the director of the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre and Network (ECCC) will attend and the agenda is:

08:30 Coffee & Registration
09:00 Opening – Mr. Hrafnkell Gíslason, Managing Director of ECOI
09:10 Eyjólfur Ármannsson, Minister of Infrastructure
09:20 Luca Tagliaretti, Executive Director at ECCC
09:50 Hörn Valdimarsdóttir covers the Defend Iceland success story
10:00 Break
10:10 Grant Projects: Brief Presentations, first part
11:00 Break – Coffee and refreshments
11:20 Grant Projects: Brief Presentations, second part
12:05 Eyjólfur Eyfells at Rannís covers the Application Process and Eligibility
12:30 Closing

The next call for grants will be open 1. October to 1. December 2025: check out at Rannís.

Photo from after the event: Eyvör NCC-IS members together with ECCC executive director Luca Tagliaretti


This event is in the context of our cybersecurity activities and the ECCC/EU co-funded projects ICEDEF – Defend Iceland and Eyvör – the National Cybersecurity Coordination Centre of Iceland (NCC-IS).