Quantum grants in Canada
Explore Quantum grants for companies in Canada. This list brings together funding for quantum computing, sensing, communications and quantum software 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 Quantum in Canada come first.
Showing 1-24 of 204 grants
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.
NRC IRAP Standard R&D Contribution
🇨🇦NRC · Canada
Provides Canadian innovators with hands-on guidance for technology-led projects and commercialization planning.
CSTIP Collaborative Grant & Contribution
🇨🇦NRC · Canada
Provides Canadian teams with NRC partnership support for mission-focused innovation projects.
NGen Advanced Manufacturing Projects
🇨🇦NGen · Canada
Supports small Canadian manufacturing ecosystems through co-investment for cross-sector collaboration.
NRC IRAP Accelerated Review Program
🇨🇦NRC · Canada
Supports Canadian applied-innovation teams with faster review and rapid decisions for focused milestones.
NSERC Alliance Quantum Grants
🇨🇦NSERC · Canada
Funds Canadian academic and industrial consortia advancing quantum computing, communications, and sensing technologies.
CFI Innovation Fund
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds Canadian university research infrastructure through strategic national awards to strengthen real-world implementation.
Innovation Programme — Component 2 (Programme innovation — Volet 2 / Projets mobilisateurs)
🇨🇦IQ · Canada
Funds Quebec for-profit companies leading collaborative R&D projects with universities and research centres to develop innovative products or processes.
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.
Defence Innovation Secure Hubs
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Funds Canadian consortia establishing secure quantum and uncrewed-systems defence innovation hubs.
India-Canada Collaborative Industrial Research & Development Programme 2025
🇮🇳DST India · India
Funds joint India-Canada industrial R&D projects with a grant up to INR 1.5 crore per project.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.
Quantum Machine Learning
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Funds research building and benchmarking quantum-enhanced machine-learning methods for real-world, data-heavy problems.
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships — ISERD)
🇪🇺ISERD · Israel
Supports internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers placed in Israeli institutions to build independent research careers through EU mobility fellowships.
Digital Technology Foresight Forum
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €4M coordination action to spot future digital technologies and connect the people who can bring them into use.
New primitives and protocols for future hybrid classical-quantum networks
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds foundational quantum-cryptography research for secure future hybrid networks.
STEP Scale Up
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Invests in European deep-tech scale-up ventures with momentum needing capital for commercial expansion.
EIC STEP Scale Up — Q3 & Q4 Cutoffs
🇪🇺ISERD · Israel
Invests in scale-up ventures in digital, clean technology, and biotechnology through equity to accelerate commercialization pathways.
Eurostars Call 12 for projects
🇪🇺RVO · Netherlands
Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.
EIT Digital Co-Creation Accelerator
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Funds early-stage deep tech startups developing solutions at TRL 4-5 in collaboration with industry partners through a 4-month co-creation programme.
Microsoft Research Fellowship
🇺🇸Microsoft · United States
Funds research talent through annual fellowships for computing and artificial intelligence work.
Continuation of the Quantum Technologies Flagship (CSA)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one coordination project up to EUR 4.5 million to run Europe's Quantum Technologies Flagship, tracking global progress and coordinating national quantum strategies.