AI grants in France
Explore AI grants for companies in France. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from French innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in France, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in France come first.
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Transformation to trajectory-based operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds industrial research building the flight-planning and network systems needed for trajectory-based air traffic operations.
Transversal Centres of Excellence
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Funds about 4 technical hubs offering profiling, optimisation, portability and other cross-cutting HPC support services to European application developers.
Trusted frameworks for secure and efficient data sharing in EOSC (EOSC Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds coordination projects that build data-sovereignty frameworks so European researchers can share sensitive data securely within EOSC.
Unleashing the potential and advancing the impact of the digitalization/Artificial Intelligence of the climate-neutral bio-based value chains
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AI and digital-twin tools that speed up bio-based manufacturing — from biorefinery process control to predicting biosynthesis pathways.
Uptake of FAIR data management practices and of EOSC by research communities and research infrastructures (EOSC Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a project that runs cascading open-science sub-grants of EUR 100,000-250,000 to drive FAIR data practices and EOSC adoption across research communities.
Using Generative AI (GenAI4EU) for Scientific Research via EOSC
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that deploy generative AI tools across the research data lifecycle within Europe's open-science cloud.
Wireless Communication Technologies and Signal Processing – Standardisation and Follow-up/PoCs
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds 6G physical-layer and radio-access research — spectrum efficiency, massive MIMO, AI-native RAN — aimed at proof-of-concept systems and international standards contributions.
JCJC Breakthrough
🇫🇷ANR · France
Funds JCJC laureates and their teams preparing strong proposals to advance high-impact scientific careers.
Innovation Grant
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds SMEs maturing and testing technology projects with grants of up to EUR 50,000.
Regional France 2030 Innovation Projects
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French companies carrying out high-growth R&D projects with regional grants or recoverable advances.
Eureka France-Germany Call for Projects (Bpifrance / ZIM)
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French and German collaborative companies with bilateral support for joint innovation projects.
Overseas Territories Innovation Grant
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds overseas French SMEs industrialising or commercialising completed innovation projects with grants of EUR 20,000 to EUR 100,000.
Young Innovative Enterprise (Jeune Entreprise Innovante) (JEI / JEU / JEC / JEII)
🇫🇷DGFiP · France
Supports French early-growth companies with a favourable tax and social relief status during early innovation growth.
Classic Innovation Advance
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French SMEs and mid-sized companies pursuing high-uncertainty innovation with a recoverable advance.
Innovation Tax Credit (Crédit d'Impôt Innovation, CII)
🇫🇷DGFiP · France
Funds French small and medium enterprises focused on innovative prototyping, technology development, and pilot commercialization.
Research Tax Credit (Crédit d'Impôt Recherche, CIR)
🇫🇷DGFiP · France
Offers French companies tax support that lowers the cost of qualifying innovation activity.
AAPG — Generic for Proposals
🇫🇷ANR · France
Funds French organizations through ANR's broad flagship call in multiple priority research themes.
Empowering youth in the EU Outermost Regions – YOUTH 4 OUTERMOST REGIONS (#YOUTH4ORS)
🇫🇷European Commission · European Union
Funds one organisation to run youth-led community and entrepreneurship actions across the EU's Outermost Regions.
Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and App Lab
Arduino · Global / Multinational
Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.
2026 Global Quantum + AI Challenge
TQI · Global / Multinational
Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Pays startups, research teams and enterprises a share of $200,000 in prizes for solutions that turn quantum computing research into deployable industrial pilots across five sectors.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge 2026
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.
Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
NIST · United States
Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
NVIDIA · United States
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.