AI grants in Canada

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Funds three €7.5M innovation actions that make urban freight packaging reusable, trackable and part of a circular logistics system.

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Funds rapidly adaptable tools that help police detect and investigate emerging online harms.

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Funds one €6M coordination action to connect energy stakeholders around open data, analytics and AI tools for smarter grids.

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Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled applications in agriculture, climate monitoring, and transport innovation.

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Invests in scale-up ventures in digital, clean technology, and biotechnology through equity to accelerate commercialization pathways.

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Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.

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Funds advanced innovation projects advancing robotics and physical AI deep-tech initiatives toward scalable outcomes.

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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Funds AI-driven and automated farming solutions for greenhouses, vertical farms and other controlled environment agriculture, with money for SMEs to test them.

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Funds work that makes EOSC's research data and repositories AI-ready and machine-actionable, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative.

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Funds AI tools that combine Earth observation and socioeconomic data for environmental policy, resilience and competitiveness.

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Funds factory AI that adapts production in real time, improves quality, and cuts scrap, energy use and carbon emissions.

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Funds around four projects, each worth EUR 13 million, to use AI and self-driving labs to speed up the discovery of new chemicals and materials.