Hardware grants in Canada
Explore Hardware grants for companies in Canada. This list brings together funding for electronics, devices, sensors, prototyping and hardware startups 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 Hardware in Canada come first.
Showing 97-120 of 244 grants
JST GSC Initiative: International Research Program
JST · Japan
Funds researchers at companies including startups doing R&D aimed at commercialization under JST's Global Startup Campus initiative.
Novel Technologies for Rapid Proof of Clean in Professional Environments
Diversey · United States
Pays $10,000 for a genuinely new way to verify cleanliness in under 30 minutes.
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
NVIDIA · United States
Supports doctoral students in computing, robotics, and intelligent systems by pairing university awards with industry mentorship.
Real-time detection of Structural Modifications in Scaffolding for Oil Refinery Safety
YPF · Argentina
Pays $20,000 to pilot a real-time sensor system that detects unsafe scaffolding changes at a refinery.
RFA: In Vitro Disease Modeling — T1D-on-a-Chip Platforms
Breakthrough T1D · United States
Supports in vitro disease modeling for type 1 diabetes using chip-based systems and translational experimental platforms.
Rice Business Plan Competition
Rice Jones School · United States
Funds student-led startup teams competing for investment, non-dilutive cash, and in-kind prizes at Rice University.
Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge
NTL · United States
Pays up to $155,000 across three phases for a new lunar rover wheel design.
XPRIZE Water Scarcity — Active Phase
XPRIZE · United States
Supports water-solvers advancing desalination systems and infrastructure for severe scarcity conditions.
XPRIZE Water Scarcity — Track A: Desalination: System-Level Innovation
XPRIZE · United States
Awards up to $40 million for a system that makes large-scale seawater desalination affordable.
xTechHumanoid
Army · United States
Supports autonomous humanoid robotics efforts through prizes and potential follow-on mission contracts.
Equinor Ventures (Norwegian sovereign-linked)
Equinor · Norway
Invests in Scandinavian deep-tech and energy ventures with long-horizon backing from Equinor-linked venture operations.
MSCA Doctoral Networks 2026
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.
European Prize for Women Innovators
🇪🇺EIT · European Union
Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.
Pillar II: Talent ecosystems for attractive early research careers
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds cross-sector consortia building 'talent ecosystems' that connect researcher training with employer needs to make early research careers more attractive.
Pillar III: Promoting public engagement in R&I and scientific literacy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds consortia running youth science-engagement programmes or researcher-public dialogue events under one of two chosen tracks to boost trust in science.
Pillar III: Science comes to town 2029
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a group of 3-6 cities to jointly run a year-long 'Science comes to town' public-engagement programme, including the EUCYS and EU TalentOn competitions.
MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2027
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds part of the cost of talent-recruitment programmes that give postdoctoral researchers a two-phase path to a stable research career in Europe.
MSCA COFUND 2027
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds part of the cost of running new or existing doctoral training programmes at universities and research organisations.
Deploying circular systemic solutions through living labs in cities and regions (Circular Cities and Regions Initiative topic)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds city and regional authorities to run living labs that scale up circular-economy solutions across Europe.
MSCA and Citizens 2027
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds European Researchers' Night events and Researchers at Schools visits that bring MSCA-funded scientists face to face with the public and pupils.
Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – development of complementarities, synergies and/or integration between a set of pan-European research infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds complementary services, synergies and integration across Europe’s major research infrastructures.
Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – individual support for evolution, long-term sustainability and emerging needs of pan-European research infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds individual support to a single ESFRI Landmark or European Research Infrastructure Consortium to strengthen, evolve or sustain a pan-European research infrastructure.
Reinforcing synergies between experimentation spaces and innovation procurement
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds public buyers to test and procure breakthrough solutions with experimentation spaces and regulators.
Closing the learning gap: uncovering causes and effective policy interventions for declining youth skills in mathematics, reading, and science
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into the structural causes of Europe's 15-year decline in youth maths, reading and science skills.