Energy Tech grants in France

Pays $30,000 to $50,000 for already-patented clean-tech products or technologies in energy transition and the circular economy, in exchange for the IP.

Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.

Pays up to $20,000 for a pilot to automate lab-sample transport in a YPF refinery.

Closed

Connects climate innovators to partner programs delivering climate, AI, energy, and built-environment acceleration.

Closed

Supports early-stage climate ventures through global competition, coaching, and investment readiness across all sectors.

Closed

Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.

Runs a nine-month, government-backed accelerator that helps foreign-founded startups enter and scale in Korea, with prize money for the top 20 teams and further commercialisation grants for the top 8.

Backs youth-led renewable energy and climate ventures with a four-month acceleration programme.

Pays $20,000 to pilot a real-time sensor system that detects unsafe scaffolding changes at a refinery.

Closed

Funds student-led startup teams competing for investment, non-dilutive cash, and in-kind prizes at Rice University.

Pays up to $575,000 across three phases for a rapid seal that stops dam conduit failures.

Closed

Runs a 10-week, no-cost, non-dilutive accelerator for early-stage security, resiliency, and dual-use founders, from Pre-Seed through Series A+, culminating in enterprise pilots and investor-ready pitches.

Awards early-stage climate tech and energy start-ups an equity-free cash prize, a fully-covered trip to Berlin, and investor exposure at the SET Tech Festival.

Awards $250,000 in non-dilutive funding to a bold, high-potential climate solution.

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Funds quantum application teams bridging fundamental discovery to practical deployment-ready technologies.

Closed

Supports water-solvers advancing desalination systems and infrastructure for severe scarcity conditions.

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Invests in Scandinavian deep-tech and energy ventures with long-horizon backing from Equinor-linked venture operations.

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Offers United Arab Emirates investors and strategic startups with growth capital and partnership options across technology and energy.

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

Open

Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.

Open

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.

Open

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.

Open

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.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.