Benefits & Opportunities

Are you ready to shape the electronic warfare of the future? Whether you’re a startup, a university research team, or an interdisciplinary developer community—ECHIS offers you a unique platform.

What Participants Can Expect

Direct Access to the Pros: Receive exclusive feedback from experts at the Cyberagentur and operational users within the Bundeswehr.
Testing under real-world conditions: As finalists, you’ll gain access to a “sandbox.” You can test your prototype in a real-world environment closely aligned with the Bundeswehr—an environment that is normally off-limits.
Financial support:Up to six selected participants will receive the cooperation selection and advance to the working phase as finalists. As finalists, they will also each receive a lump-sum research and development budget of 40,000 EUR.
Attractive innovation premium:
The top-ranked finalists will receive an innovation premium.
1st place: 100,000 EUR
2nd place: 50,000 EUR
3rd place: 30,000 EUR

Do you have a viable technological approach and want to further develop it within the framework of this competition? Then use the ECHIS Challenge as a starting point for a structured, application-oriented innovation process.

Process & Timeline