F6S Network Ireland Limited acts as a key beneficiary within the CIPHER consortium, leading Work Package 7 (Open Calls Management) and actively contributing to the project’s long-term ecosystem by leading the Task 8.1 related to Communication and Dissemination. While CIPHER’s overarching dissemination strategy spans the entire 36-month lifecycle to raise awareness for all technological and sector-specific outcomes, F6S will leverage its network to bridge the gap between the core consortium and external European innovators through a dedicated EUR 4,320,000 cascade funding programme.
Meet the faces behind the project
- Samuel Almeida is a Project Manager and Team Lead at F6S. Within CIPHER, his role focuses on the structural implementation and day-to-day management of the Cascade Funding Programme. From an operational standpoint, his objective is to execute the sub-granting mechanisms, contracts, and financial reporting workflows in strict compliance with Digital Europe guidelines. By maintaining objective evaluation and milestone-tracking procedures, he ensures that third-party projects remain aligned with the core validation requirements of the platform.
The CIPHER ecosystem is growing. We are launching two Funding Programmes with 72 third parties who will help validate and scale the CIPHER Platform. These programmes will advance the project’s mission to deliver next-generation security and information assurance to critical sectors.
- Minoo Doost serves as a Project Manager at F6S. She provides essential back-end support for the Open Call management process, ensuring that the administrative and application workflows remain efficient. Her role is fundamental in preparing the call documentation kits, coordinating with independent evaluators, and monitoring the technical progress of funded entities to facilitate a smooth integration with the CIPHER testing facility.
Join us on October 14th, 2026, as we launch CIPHER Open Call #1, offering European cybersecurity innovators up to €60,000 in equity-free funding to test and validate groundbreaking solutions in our advanced experimentation laboratory!
- Anne-Florence Harpon is the Communications Manager at F6S and focuses on the execution of Task 8.1 (Dissemination, awareness creation and ecosystem building). Her role consists of developing and updating the project’s dissemination plan to ensure target audiences are reached effectively. By coordinating communication collaterals, support resources, and stakeholder outreach, she works to build the initial project community and maximise the visibility of CIPHER’s technical outcomes.
Security is fundamentally collaborative. Our goal within the communication task is to ensure that CIPHER’s breakthroughs reach the right essential service providers and technical communities across Europe, building a highly visible and trusted ecosystem that drives proactive digital resilience!
About F6S
F6S is a leading global founder and startup network that helps public sector entities around the world to promote, communicate and disseminate technical and research projects. F6S stands for F-ounder-S. Our mission is to help founders and startups grow to solve the world’s pressing social, economic, environmental, sustainability and innovation problems. In addition to F6S’ work with governmental entities, we also work with corporates, investors, research institutions, programs, universities and others in the global startup ecosystem. F6S tools deliver company growth through grants, partnerships, funding, investment, pilot contracts, partnerships, jobs & talent recruitment and company services.F6S Innovation provides growth and scaling opportunities to the tech ecosystem with programmes funded by the European Commission and other governmental institutions. We deliver impact by managing open calls and funding to third parties, driving open innovation connections, coordinating dissemination and communication activities, and conducting exploitation and impact generation activities in all Horizon Europe clusters and Missions.
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