Robotics grants in Belgium

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Funds strategic basic research in security and defense aligned with space, maritime, aviation, and cybersecurity priorities.

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Funds strategic basic research across Flemish institutions in AI, biotech, climate, and engineering.

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Funds Walloon industrial teams through a regional programme for research and experimental development projects.

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Funds Brussels companies collaborating on R&D projects with enterprises from Flanders or Wallonia, through the joint Belgian interregional innovation co-funding initiative.

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Funds Belgian deep-tech companies researching human performance and human-machine integration for defence applications.

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Funds Brussels R&D SMEs participating in Eurostars international collaboration projects, covering 40 to 80 percent of project costs depending on company size and project type.

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Funds Brussels companies checking the technical feasibility of their innovation, covering 50 to 70 percent of a technical feasibility study carried out in-house or with a specialist consultant.

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Funds Brussels startups founded within the last five years with a EUR 500,000 award to realize their three-year strategic innovation plan.

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Funds Brussels SMEs filing national or PCT international patents for their R&D results, covering 50 percent of patent application and procedure costs.

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Funds Brussels companies developing their first technologically innovative prototype or service, covering 50 to 70 percent of the budget for technical and economic validation.

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Funds Brussels companies doing industrial research, experimental development, or process innovation through grants covering 15 to 70 percent of project costs.

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Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.

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Funds one €93M wind-energy project — split across breakthrough R&D, technology validation, and at least three real-world demonstrations.

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Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.

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Backs defense innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations across EU member states.

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Pays a contractor to build and run a shared testing environment where other teams' AI-and-robot tactical-awareness research gets evaluated.

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Pays research teams up to EUR 4.6 million each to develop AI-and-robot tactical threat detection and test it in a shared technological challenge.

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Pays a single contractor to build a semi-autonomous robotic platform that finds and disposes of leftover ammunition on former military training grounds and battlefields.

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Funds a contractor to develop sensor and control technology that lets tanker and receiver aircraft refuel each other automatically.

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Funds a contractor to design and prototype a fast, semi-autonomous coastal-defence surface vessel.

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Pays up to EUR 15 million per proposal to build a layered system of unmanned assets and sensors that protects undersea infrastructure.

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Funds European teams building complete multi-purpose robots or the breakthrough hardware inside them.

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Funds €4M projects that build and field-test search-and-rescue tech — drones, robotics, sensors — for wildfires, earthquakes and other hazardous disasters.

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Funds defence technology validation and prototype demonstration across digital transformation, air defence, and space integration.