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.
Showing 25-48 of 694 grants
Connecting the Community for Maternal Health 2.0 (CCMH 2.0)
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Awards a $3.1 million prize purse across four phases to help U.S. nonprofits and Tribes build the research capacity to lead maternal health research in maternity care deserts.
Canada-G7-Nordic call for proposals on quantum technologies
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
International collaborative research in quantum science and technologies.
Horizon Widening: Hop-on Support
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a Widening-country organisation to join an eligible live Horizon project and add a defined research and innovation role.
Modern Equipment for Shared-use Biomedical Research Facilities: Advancing Research-Related Operations
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds up to $350,000 of equipment that keeps a shared research facility running — but explicitly not scientific instruments. A cost share is required.
SBO Security and Defence
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds strategic basic research in security and defense aligned with space, maritime, aviation, and cybersecurity priorities.
SBO Strategic Basic Research Projects
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds strategic basic research across Flemish institutions in AI, biotech, climate, and engineering.
Therapeutic Catalyst
CRUK · United Kingdom
Supports global cancer teams through CRUK to validate novel therapeutic concepts toward patient solutions.
Coordinating Agricultural Development & Innovation (CADI) to enable America First Trade Wins in Europe, the South Caucasus and Central Asia
🇺🇸USDA · United States
Funds a US university to track the economic payoff of a USDA farm-trade programme across Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
Desalination and Water Purification Research Program: Research Projects
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds lab-scale and pilot-scale research that cuts the cost or energy of treating impaired water for reuse.
Innovations in Low-Cost and Simplified Pathogen Sequencing Workflows
Gates Foundation · United States
Funds research teams building low-cost, simplified pathogen-sequencing workflows that bring the cost of sequencing a sample down to about US$1-10 for use in low- and middle-income countries.
Innovations in Low-Cost and Simplified Pathogen Sequencing Workflows
Gates Foundation · Global / Multinational
Funds teams up to $800,000 to build cheap pathogen-sequencing workflows for poorer countries.
OVC FY 2026 Preventing Trafficking of Girls
🇺🇸DOJ · United States
Funds prevention and early-intervention services for girls at risk of, or already victims of, human trafficking.
Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) Open Call
🇪🇺EIT Urban Mobility · European Union
Funds providers building professional training courses that close the urban-mobility skills gap.
Grand Challenge on Quantum Sensors for Inertial Navigation
🇳🇴EuroHPC JU · European Union
Funds a coordination action that benchmarks quantum-sensor navigation technology and builds an investment-ready roadmap for EIB follow-on funding.
India-Finland Joint Innovation Call 2026
🇮🇳DST India · India
Grants Indian-Finnish R&D consortia up to Rs.2.5 crore per project for joint tech development.
International Programs & Trade, Invasive Species Program Funding Opportunity
🇺🇸USDA · United States
Funds projects that turn existing invasive-species research into real prevention policy and action.
RPSC Commissioned Call - June 2026
🇬🇧NIHR · United Kingdom
Funds UK social care research, up to £350,000, across three commissioned application routes.
Take-off Phase 2 — Early-Stage Loan (Vroegefasetraject)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Invests Netherlands firms in knowledge startups building commercialization-ready products through structured financing and growth-oriented milestones.
Ultra long duration energy storage project development studies
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Fund the study that gets a 100-hour battery demonstrator ready to build.
Cooperative Agreement for In Vivo High-Resolution Imaging for Inner Ear Visualization
NIH · United States
Funds high-risk clinical trials of new ways to see inside the living human inner ear. A trial is compulsory, and NIH stays in the room.
In Vivo High-Resolution Imaging for Inner Ear Visualization
NIH · United States
Funds building the imaging that can finally show hair cells and membranes inside a living human ear. A clinical trial is optional.
RD Lawrence Fellowship
🇬🇧Diabetes UK · United Kingdom
Funds students and early career scholars with mentoring support for RD Lawrence Fellowship in biotechnology and medical technology.
Sir George Alberti Research Training Fellowship
🇬🇧Diabetes UK · United Kingdom
Helps students and early career scholars with mentoring support for Sir George Alberti Research Training Fellowship in medical technology and biotechnology.
SNSF Project Funding
🇨🇭SNSF · Switzerland
Funds Swiss individual and team science projects across strategic research areas.