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.
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Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge (9th Edition)
Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.
IC Taiwan Grand Challenge
NSTC Taiwan · Taiwan
Awards a $30,000 cash prize to startups collaborating with Taiwan's chip industry.
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.
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.
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.
Equinor Ventures (Norwegian sovereign-linked)
Equinor · Norway
Invests in Scandinavian deep-tech and energy ventures with long-horizon backing from Equinor-linked venture operations.
ERC Proof of Concept Grants
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.
Horizon EIE: Technology Transfer Offices
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.
Creative alliances: Fostering global partnerships in cultural policies and CCI innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays international research consortiums roughly €3-3.75 million to build cross-regional creative-industry and cultural-diplomacy partnerships between Europe and world regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Governing global commons sustainably
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to develop policy solutions for the sustainable, science-informed governance of shared global resources like the climate, biodiversity and outer space.
Government in transition — how governments change the way they work and prepare the civil service for the future
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study how EU and Associated Country governments are reinventing internal operations and preparing their civil services for the future.
Making Europe a global magnet for talent — attracting and retaining non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.
Safeguarding linguistic diversity in Europe
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €5-5.75 million to document, map and help safeguard Europe's regional, minority and endangered languages.
Tackling child poverty and ensuring disadvantaged children's access to Early Childhood Education and Care
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to produce EU-specific evidence on the cost of child poverty and how to close gaps in disadvantaged children's access to early childhood education.
Tackling gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.
Horizon Research Management Facility
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a Europe-wide support service that helps Widening-country research institutions build stronger management teams, systems and training.
Horizon Widening: Teaming CoE Synergies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €7M action for research centres in widening regions to share expertise, build capacity and create lasting regional and European impact.
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.