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.
Showing 25-48 of 231 grants
Horizon Climate Security: Crisis Scenario Planning
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds tools that help European civil protection authorities plan for and respond to climate-driven disasters like floods, wildfires and heat waves.
Horizon Critical Infrastructure: Multi-Hazard Resilience Tech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.5M projects that give infrastructure operators and first responders shared tools to spot risks and coordinate across borders during a crisis.
Horizon Critical Infrastructure: Stress-Test Tools
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.84M projects giving infrastructure operators and authorities better ways to simulate disruptions, spot weak points, and learn from real incidents.
Horizon Security: Emerging-Tech Crime & Data Access
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.5M grants for police tools against emerging-tech crime and the lawful-data-access rules to match, run with Police Authorities as partners.
Horizon Security: Missing Persons Prevention & Investigation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €5M project building forensic, training and privacy-safe data-sharing tools so European police and NGOs can find missing people and crack cold cases.
Horizon Security: Pre-Commercial Procurement
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €5.83M project where public security procurers and practitioners jointly commission and test rival prototypes through a procurement tender.
Environmental Crimes
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Zero-equity co-funding for satellite services that detect and trace environmental crime.
Artificial Intelligence for Civil Cybersecurity
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds trustworthy AI for real-time cyber threat detection, adaptive civil-security defence and stronger Security Operation Centres.
Advanced Protective Gear for CBRN-E Disaster Response
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds field-ready solutions that improve responder safety, mobility and decisions in hazardous environments.
Demand-Led Innovation in Civil Security
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds buyer-led pre-commercial procurement that helps civil-security innovators reach operational public markets.
Evidence-Based Responses to Synthetic Drugs and Stimulants
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds evidence, harm-reduction practice and civil-security tools to address synthetic drugs, violence and trafficking across Europe.
Fundamental-Rights-Respecting EU External Border Management
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds creative civil-security solutions for EU external borders that improve management while protecting fundamental rights and EU values.
Horizon Civil Security: Crime Prevention and Detection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €3M projects that give police and civil-society practitioners better tools, evidence and training to prevent and deter crime.
Horizon Civil Security: Future Security Procurement
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €1M preparatory projects that turn shared security needs into a credible future pre-commercial procurement.
Horizon Civil Security: Secure Cargo and Customs Control
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds four €3.5M projects that detect dangerous, illicit and smuggled goods in cargo while keeping trade moving.
Open-Source Intelligence Risks to Critical Infrastructure
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds civil-security tools that expose malicious OSINT risks and protect critical infrastructure continuity.
Trustworthy Decision Support for Disaster Crises
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds trustworthy crisis intelligence that turns near-real-time data into faster, more inclusive disaster decisions.
HMGCC Accelerate
Plexal · United Kingdom
Supports HMGCC Accelerate through a six week HMGCC and Plexal engineering programme for hardware and software security firms.
NATO DIANA Challenge Programme
NATO DIANA · Global / Multinational
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.
Advancing autonomous systems and robotics for high-risk disaster response in conflict-afflicted crisis zones
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds autonomous robots and remote-sensing tools that let first responders search, assess and support disaster zones made too dangerous by conflict.
Better customs and supply chain security
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds tools that help customs authorities detect illegal or dangerous goods moving through the EU's supply chains without slowing legitimate trade.
Citizen and regional/local authorities' engagement in enhanced disaster risk awareness, education and preparedness
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that raise citizens' disaster-risk awareness or build stronger links between researchers and local authorities on disaster preparedness.
Demand-led innovation for civil security through Pre-Commercial Procurement
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a group of public procurers to jointly commission and test at least two competing prototypes of a new civil-security technology.
European Startup and Scaleup Hubs pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a pan-European network of 10-18 startup and scaleup hubs that can pass on up to EUR 60,000 per deep-tech startup for cross-border scaling support.