Hardware grants in Belgium

Closed

Funds student-led startup teams competing for investment, non-dilutive cash, and in-kind prizes at Rice University.

Pays up to $155,000 across three phases for a new lunar rover wheel design.

Closed

Supports water-solvers advancing desalination systems and infrastructure for severe scarcity conditions.

Closed

Awards up to $40 million for a system that makes large-scale seawater desalination affordable.

Discontinued

Invests in Scandinavian deep-tech and energy ventures with long-horizon backing from Equinor-linked venture operations.

Open

Funds existing ERC grant holders in testing the commercial or societal potential of already-funded research through a fixed EUR 150,000 top-up grant.

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

Open

Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.

Open

Pays international research consortiums roughly €3-3.75 million to build cross-regional creative-industry and cultural-diplomacy partnerships between Europe and world regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to develop policy solutions for the sustainable, science-informed governance of shared global resources like the climate, biodiversity and outer space.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study how EU and Associated Country governments are reinventing internal operations and preparing their civil services for the future.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €5-5.75 million to document, map and help safeguard Europe's regional, minority and endangered languages.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to produce EU-specific evidence on the cost of child poverty and how to close gaps in disadvantaged children's access to early childhood education.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.

Open

Pays social finance intermediaries in the EU and ESF+ Associated Countries to cover due-diligence, legal and business-development costs on risk-capital investments under €1 million into social enterprises.

Open

Funds a Europe-wide support service that helps Widening-country research institutions build stronger management teams, systems and training.

Open

Funds one €7M action for research centres in widening regions to share expertise, build capacity and create lasting regional and European impact.

Open

Pays public authorities, social partners, universities and research bodies to improve cross-border cooperation and information on posted workers' rights.

Open

Funds early-career researchers building an independent research team and pursuing frontier research through an ERC Starting Grant hosted at a public or private research organisation.

Open

Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.

Open

Pays SMEs a fixed EUR60,000 grant to run a six-month market feasibility project testing whether their innovation can be commercialised in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania.

Open

Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.

Open

Funds cross-sector consortia building 'talent ecosystems' that connect researcher training with employer needs to make early research careers more attractive.