Grants of $250K to $1M
Explore grants with an award between $250,000 and $1 million. This directory lists funding for product development, applied research, feasibility and early commercialization, the range where most national innovation programs and second-phase awards sit, with the deadline and eligibility on every listing.
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Eurostars autumn 2026 call 11
🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden
Funds Swedish SMEs and their international partners to bring near-market R&D to launch.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇪EIS · Estonia
Administers research teams and institutions for Eurostars in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and hardware.
NIH Director's Early Independence Award
🇺🇸NIH Common Fund · United States
Funds a scientist to skip the postdoc entirely and run their own lab straight after the doctorate — ten awards of $350,000 each.
Sector transition: UKRI policy fellowships 2026
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Fellowships for academics to embed with policy hosts and address policy priorities.
Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Alaska Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds research on how beetle-killed spruce forests in Alaska open the door to an invasive tree.
Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Gulf Coast Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds modelling how seafloor sediment properties shape coastline damage during major storms.
Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Californian Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds extending an invasive-mussel risk model to guide inspection stations in Washington and California.
Cooperative Agreement for Affiliated Partner with the Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU)
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds building monthly drought forecast maps that tell rangeland managers when restoration will likely succeed.
DCMS 'Connections Through Gaming' Pilot Fund (Boys 11-16)
🇬🇧DCMS · United Kingdom
Gaming-based support for boys aged 11–16 facing loneliness or isolation.
ADDF Neuroimaging and CSF Biomarker RFP
ADDF · Global / Multinational
Funds new biomarkers for Alzheimer's and related dementias through PET ligands, MRI, spinal fluid, and brain activity measures.
MJSP Partnership
🇺🇸MN DEED · United States
Supports Minnesota employers in educational partnerships through workforce development grants for new worker pathways.
MJSP Pathways
🇺🇸MN DEED · United States
Supports Minnesota workforce pathways through business-education partnerships that create skilled career tracks.
Coordination for Cross-Sector Nuclear Technologies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds coordination of European nuclear research platforms across energy, medicine, space, maritime uses and radiation protection.
Globalstars call with Taiwan
🇹🇼EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports European and Taiwan teams building international technology and research alliances through Eureka Globalstars channels.
Horizon Euratom: Nuclear Platform Coordination
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €500K project that coordinates Europe's nuclear research network, connecting reactor science with medical and space uses of the field.
MIT R&D Cooperation Projects
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch SME teams doing joint R&D to develop or renew products, processes or services.
Partnership for Small and Medium-Sized Towns (Klein- und Mittelstädte)
🇦🇹Klimafonds · Austria
Funds small and mid-size Austrian municipalities through climate transformation programs.
Biotech Certified Innovation Path
🇪🇺EIT Health · European Union
Funds a consortium of universities to build a new EIT Label-certified biotech learning pathway for graduates and professionals across Europe.
U.S Wildland Fire Service BLM-National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Regional Fire Science Exchange Announcement
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds leading a two-year regional exchange connecting fire scientists with the practitioners who use their work.
U.S. Wildland Fire Service BLM-National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) Primary Announcement
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds research on why fire regimes are changing and how prescribed-fire smoke affects air quality.
Salmon By-product Emulsion Reduction Call
🇳🇴FHF · Norway
Funds seafood research and industry teams reducing emulsions and finding uses for salmon-processing side streams through an FHF project grant.
Food and Agriculture Defense Initiative Extension Disaster Education Network (FADI-EDEN)
USDA NIFA · United States
Funds coordination and administrative leadership for the Extension Disaster Education Network, which helps Cooperative Extension professionals manage all-hazards risks to the US food and agriculture sector.
RAMP Joint Call 2026
🇵🇱NCBR · Poland
Co-funds Polish firms and research partners doing raw-materials R&D with EU partners.
Sustainable Shipbuilding Subsidy (SDS)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch shipyards to test emission- and noise-cutting innovations on a new or rebuilt vessel.