[seal] Industrial cybersecurity - Call for projects

📢 [seal] - Vaud's innovation program in digital trust and cybersecurity - opens a new call for projects: Industrial Cybersecurity - Securing the future of Swiss manufacturing.

Call opening: 19.06.2025 | Closing 15.11.2025

As industrial companies digitize, they are exposed to new threats, such as compromising machine operation and disrupting production lines, as well as industrial espionage and data exfiltration.

The aim of this call for projects is to stimulate collaborative innovation and propose solutions that meet the challenges of digital security in industrial environments, whether in terms of protecting control systems (ICS), securing operational technologies (OT) or the Zero Trust approach. It is being carried out in collaboration with the Swiss Machinery Industry Group (GIM).

It aims to explore new ideas, study and develop disruptive concepts and innovative technical solutions to enhance the cybersecurity and resilience of industrial systems.

We invite university researchers, industry and technology players, and experts in digitalization and cybersecurity to work together to strengthen industry's capacity for innovation and resilience in the face of new cyber threats, thereby helping to preserve its survival, sustainability and competitiveness.