AI grants in Belgium

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Supports ARPA inspired high risk demand driven Physical AI pilots with transformative deep-tech potential.

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Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.

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Invests in European deep-tech scale-up ventures with momentum needing capital for commercial expansion.

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Funds space-enabled wildfire monitoring programs improving response, prediction, and ecosystem safety.

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Funds early-stage deep tech startups developing solutions at TRL 4-5 in collaboration with industry partners through a 4-month co-creation programme.

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Runs research teams and institutions for EIT Health Catapult Edition in biotechnology, medical technology, and artificial intelligence.

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Supports startups commercializing Earth observation by funding service development and downstream applications.

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Supports defense startups through EU cohorts, providing vouchers and coaching for growth.

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Supports international consortia so small companies can turn joint innovation into export-ready products.

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Offers market-feasibility support for small companies exploring non-European markets through Europe-wide innovation networks.

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Funds research talent through annual fellowships for computing and artificial intelligence work.

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Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.

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Runs themed competitions in which teams compete over several stages to solve one defined technical problem.

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Supports early-stage German innovators through a pilot challenge route with mentoring and development funding.

Closed

Offers European deep-tech startups a competitive incubation route with early cash support and growth-focused follow-up.

Funds a coordination and support action to build a European roadmap and industrial strategy for simplified, RedCap-style 5G/6G devices ahead of the next EU research framework.

Funds one project to build an evolvable 6G telco-cloud experimental infrastructure that hosts and validates network functions and AI/Compute/Security-as-a-Service.

Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build a unified, open benchmarking framework and suite for exascale and AI-capable supercomputers.

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Funds a business incubation hub that hands 45-60% of its EU budget on as seed grants to help European open-source geospatial software projects become sustainable businesses.

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Funds digital tools that extend electronic freight-data platforms beyond today's regulatory requirements for business-to-business data sharing.

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Pays physical-AI robotics teams a fixed EUR 300,000 lump-sum grant to validate a prototype and then build it into a real-world-tested system.

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Funds generative, foundation and agentic AI for faster materials development, safer plants and more efficient industrial processes.

Funds 6G network-architecture research on simplified control/user-plane designs, constrained AI for network operations, and serverless multi-domain service orchestration.

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Pays deep-tech start-ups, SMEs and research organisations a €300,000 lump sum in Stage 1, then up to €2.5 million in Stage 2, to push high-risk breakthrough innovations that lack commercial uptake toward real-world, demand-tested deployment.