Semiconductors grants in Belgium

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Supports cooperative demand driven research bridging Flemish strategic research centres clusters and at least independent Flemish companies.

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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 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 companies doing market-oriented R&D with Flemish or Walloon research institutions and companies via the Belgian spearhead cluster and competitiveness pole network.

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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 five lump-sum grants, each €3-4M, for tools that harden chip design or software supply chains against tampering, backdoors, and compromised dependencies.

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

Pays two EU-Japan semiconductor projects between EUR 3 million and EUR 5 million each to develop advanced chip packaging and standardised chiplet interfaces.

Pays one European federation of vocational-training providers up to EUR 10 million to build shared semiconductor micro-credentials and reskilling programmes.

Pays up to two academic consortia between EUR 1 million and EUR 10 million each to build semiconductor 'Hubs of Excellence' offering industry-aligned degree programmes.

Pays one consortium up to EUR 15 million to run a Europe-wide chip-design skills programme, funding at least 1,000 student tape-outs over four years.

Pays up to ten European chip companies between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million each to build working AI chip prototypes and get them tested on a shared EU evaluation platform.

Pays one consortium up to EUR 70 million to build a common EU platform for evaluating and deploying European AI chips and racks.

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

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Funds collaborative European defense research consortia delivering disruptive solutions across security, space, and quantum technologies.

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Supports small and medium defense innovators across Europe through development calls, coaching, and early-stage consortium opportunities.

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Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.

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Pays European manufacturers to expand production capacity for the electronic components that bottleneck drone, missile and defence-electronics supply chains.

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Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.