Działanie 4.1 Wzmocnienie cyberbezpieczeństwa oraz rozwój odpornej infrastruktury przetwarzania danych (trzeci nabór)
FERC · CPPC · National call
Summary
In our view, a Polish company will not get R&D or investment funding here.
Grants support partnerships of local government units establishing cybersecurity centres, strengthening technology and improving staff capabilities.
- Who can apply
- Companies cannot apply. Applicants: local authorities.
- Amount
- PLN 270MCall budget
- Deadline
- 30 Nov 2026in 36 days
- Status
- Openopened 31 Jul 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
The description is on the provider's page.
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- Municipality
- Purpose
- Deployment and investment
- R&D relevance
- 0 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- Poland
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Required
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Topics
- Local government cybersecurity
- Incident prevention and response
- Local cybersecurity centres
- Administrative staff competencies
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 24 Oct 2026
Conditions
Facts we extracted from the source documents. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Employment contract type
- Personel LCC nie może być zatrudniany w projekcie na umowę zlecenia.
- Staff restriction
- W dniu składania wniosku wnioskodawca-JST ma zatrudniać na umowę o pracę co najmniej jedną osobę w swojej jednostce organizacyjnej, z kwalifikacją cyberbezpieczeństwa określoną w kryteriach.
Amounts and costs
- Call budget
- PLN 269,649,296
Figure as listed by the provider. Whether it is the total allocation or a per-project cap is unverified unless a reviewed condition says so.
- Eligible cost
- Tak. Mogą Państwo rozliczyć wynagrodzenia obu grup.
The FAQ also requires documenting project work for existing staff and allows proportional cost when only part of an employee’s time is devoted to the project.
- Eligible cost
- koszty, które pracodawca ponosi zgodnie z przepisami
Employer statutory cost categories are named; benefits such as PPK/ZFŚS may be treated differently in the Q&A and are not included in this statement.
- Eligible cost
- bezpośrednio związane z pracą LCC, a w projekcie uzasadniono ich udział.
Applies only to substantive tasks directly linked to the project objectives and products.
Personnel and services
Technical staff
Staff cost the grant can fund
The call FAQ supports existing staff and new project hires for the project period, under employment rather than a contract of mandate. Applicant also must already employ at least one qualifying cyber-security professional at submission; that person may be part-time (see Q&A).
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 31 Jul 2026
- Provider
- FERC · CPPC
- Source
- gov.pl
- Checked
- 24 Oct 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Independent QA
- No published hold
- Reviewed
- 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.