Challenge Organizer
Agentur für Innovation in der Cybersicherheit GmbH (Cyberagentur) was founded to identify, finance, and evaluate high-risk projects with significant innovation potential in the field of cybersecurity. It takes a strategic and cross-ministerial approach to addressing the needs of internal and external security.
Through idea competitions such as the ECHIS Challenge, the Cyberagentur supplements its existing tools with an open format that allows for the greatest possible diversity of ideas and solutions and strengthens an open, risk-taking culture of innovation.
Challenge Partners
The competition is conducted jointly with the Cyber and Information Domain Command (Kommando Cyber- und Informationsraum – CIR) of the Bundeswehr.
As a higher command authority directly subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Defense, the CIR Command bears overall responsibility for the cyber and information domain.<br/>
The competition is supported by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR).
It is precisely this close integration of innovation promotion, expert evaluation, and real-world testing that defines the unique character of the Challenge.
Contact
Questions regarding the process and the documentation may be submitted via echis@cyberagentur.de until January 1, 2027. Answers will be published on this website by January 6, 2027. If deemed necessary for the competition, questions may be answered earlier.
Any questions?
We have compiled all the important questions and answers about the challenge here.