Defense grants in Canada
Explore Defense grants for companies in Canada. This list brings together funding for dual-use technology, defense research and security challenges from Canadian innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Canada, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Defense in Canada come first.
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CIRIF Intake 1
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
CIRIF Intake 2
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds institutions hosting Canada Impact Chairs through major infrastructure support.
Defence IDEaS — Competitive Projects
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Offers research teams and institutions for Defence IDEaS Competitive Projects in defense innovation, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.
IDEaS Contests
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Funds Canadian innovators solving defence and security problems through IDEaS grant-prize contests.
Innovative Solutions Canada — Challenge Stream
🇨🇦ISED · Canada
Supports prototype development for federal problem statements in Canada through challenge-based procurement for digital trust, quantum, and logistics readiness.
Innovative Solutions Canada — Testing Stream
🇨🇦ISED · Canada
Funds government validation of innovative Canadian solutions through real-world trials in complex operational environments.
MINDS Targeted Engagement Grants
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Helps research teams and institutions for MINDS Targeted Engagement Grants in defense innovation.
Oceans Stream
🇨🇦Creative Destruction Lab · Canada
Offers ocean-economy founders and researchers a nine-month, no-fee, no-equity mentorship program in Halifax where they meet mentors five times to set and hit growth objectives.
Defence Innovation Secure Hubs
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Funds Canadian consortia establishing secure quantum and uncrewed-systems defence innovation hubs.
Canadian Safety and Security Program — Collaborative Projects
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Supports research teams and institutions for Canadian Safety and Security Collaborative Projects in defense innovation, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence.
Ocean Idea Challenge
🇨🇦OSP · Canada
Pays up to $8,000 to Canada-based individuals, teams and very early-stage companies who complete a milestone-based customer discovery sprint validating an ocean-sustainability idea.
Grand Challenge on Quantum Sensors for Inertial Navigation
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Backs quantum navigation systems for use where GPS signals are jammed or denied.
Horizon Border Security: Accessible Travel Facilitation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M border-crossing tech projects, run with Border or Coast Guard Authorities, built for travelers with disabilities or low digital skills.
Horizon Border Security: Age Assessment Reliability
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €1.33M project, run with border and coast guard authorities, that compares how reliable different ways of estimating a young migrant's age really are.
Horizon Border Security: Surveillance & Drone Detection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M projects that build border detection and surveillance tech, run jointly with national Border and Coast Guard authorities.
Horizon Civil Security: Bioterrorism Prevention
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €3M project that reviews how synthetic biology could be misused for bioterrorism and pinpoints where monitoring and regulation fall short.
Horizon Civil Security: Critical Communications System
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €3M project building rugged, post-quantum-secure comms devices for first responders that keep working without cellular coverage.
Horizon Civil Security: Disaster-Risk Tech Uptake
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €3M projects that help already-proven emergency and civil-protection technology reach first responders and public agencies across Europe.
Horizon Civil Security: Disruptive Tech Innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €1.5M projects that take an early-stage security technology and prove it works with the practitioners and public authorities who'd use it.
Horizon Civil Security: Green Transition Risks
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €4M project that studies the physical and cyber security risks green technology creates in cities, and how to manage them.
Horizon Civil Security: Policing Climate-Driven Crime
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M projects that build police technology and training to counter crime that climate change fuels, from environmental crime to carbon-market fraud.
Horizon Civil Security: Public Procurement of Innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a cross-border consortium of public procurers and practitioners to jointly buy near-market civil security technology — not to build it.
Horizon Civil Security: Risk Awareness & Preparedness
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €3M projects that build risk-communication tools and cross-government preparedness plans, from citizen outreach to emergency coordination systems.
Horizon Civil Security: Terrorism Prevention in Confined Spaces
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.8M projects that help police and communities catch radicalisation early and stop lone-actor attacks on schools and public buildings.