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Grants in France

Explore grants for companies in France. This directory includes national and regional funding 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 France come first.

Showing 25-48 of 2,102 grants

Bpifrance logo
Between cycles

French Tech Tremplin

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Funds project holders and young French Tech startups with up to €15,000 plus incubation.

€15K
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Between cycles

i-Démo Generic Call No. 5 — September Round (AAP Générique, relève septembre)

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Funds large industrial initiatives with shared public and repayable financing for technology scale-up.

AIClimate Tech+7
Direction générale des Finances publiques (DGFiP) logo
Between cycles

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.

€80K
Bpifrance logo
Between cycles

Innovations in Biotherapies & Bioproduction — September Round (relève septembre)

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Funds biotherapy and bioproduction innovation in healthcare and synthetic biology.

BiotechMedtech+1
LO
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L'Oreal Green Sciences Incubator (GSI) Startup Call

🇫🇷L'Oréal · France

Gives cosmetics-focused biotech startups a six-month to one-year, equity-free incubation with L'Oreal R&I and Genopole's labs and expert support.

BiotechAdvanced Materials
ADEME — French Environment & Energy Management Agency (Agence de l'environnement et de la maîtrise de l'énergie) logo
Between cycles

Large Industrial Decarbonisation Projects — Call for Tenders (AO GPID — Grands Projets Industriels de Décarbonation)

🇫🇷ADEME · France

Funds French industrial actors tackling decarbonization at major industrial sites.

Energy TechAdvanced Manufacturing+1
LV
Between cycles

LVMH Innovation Award

🇫🇷LVMH · France

Gives one startup a partnership with LVMH and its luxury Maisons, plus investor support.

Agence de l'innovation de défense logo
Between cycles

RAPID

🇫🇷AID · France

Funds dual use technology exploration for French small businesses and mid size firms in defense and advanced engineering.

DefenseAI+5
Direction générale des Finances publiques (DGFiP) logo
Between cycles

Research Tax Credit (Crédit d'Impôt Recherche, CIR)

🇫🇷DGFiP · France

Offers French companies tax support that lowers the cost of qualifying innovation activity.

Bpifrance logo
Closed

IPCEI Advanced Semiconductor Technologies Call

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Funds French companies and research partners developing advanced semiconductor technologies through case-by-case state aid.

SemiconductorsPhotonics+4
Bpifrance logo
Closed

IPCEI Industrial Artificial Intelligence Call

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Funds French companies and research partners developing industrial AI through grants or recoverable advances.

AI
IQ
Closed

2026 Call for PhD Fellowships

🇫🇷IQOC · France

Funds PhD fellowships researching quantum computing, communications, sensing or simulation in Occitanie.

Quantum
French National Research Agency logo
Closed

AAPG — Generic for Proposals

🇫🇷ANR · France

Funds French organizations through ANR's broad flagship call in multiple priority research themes.

Agence de l'innovation de défense logo
Closed

ASMA (ASTRID Maturation)

🇫🇷AID · France

Funds maturation of prior French defence-funded research into technology-ready outputs with dual-use potential.

DefenseAI+6
€800K
Agence de l'innovation de défense logo
Closed

ASTRID

🇫🇷AID · France

Backs early-stage exploratory research with dual civilian and military applicability across fifteen thematic areas.

DefenseAI+6
€400K
French National Research Agency logo
Closed

ASTRID

🇫🇷ANR · France

Funds France innovation teams building dual-use innovation for industry security from proof to commercialization.

AICybersecurity+5
€400K
Bpifrance logo
Closed

Concours d'innovation i-PhD — 7e édition

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Supports PhD founders building deep-tech companies with entrepreneurship guidance programs.

BiotechAI+7
Secretariat of Science, Humanities, Technology & Innovation (Secretaría de Ciencia, Humanidades, Tecnología e Innovación, SECIHTI) logo
Closed

ECOS Nord — Mexico–France Scientific Cooperation

🇲🇽SECIHTI · Mexico

Supports Mexico France scientific mobility through bilateral research partnerships and collaborative knowledge exchange.

BiotechClimate Tech+3
European Commission logo
Closed

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.

Agence de l'innovation de défense logo
Closed

EPERVIER — Anti-Drone

🇫🇷AID · France

Supports development of portable anti-drone systems for critical security operations.

DefenseRobotics+1
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Closed

Eureka France-Corée du Sud

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Supports France South Korea collaboration on industrial technology and semiconductors.

SemiconductorsAdvanced Manufacturing+4
€50K – €3M
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Closed

Health-Economic Benefit Assessment of Digital and Equipment-Based Medical Devices

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Funds clinical evaluations of innovative CE-marked digital and equipment medical devices.

Medtech
Hello Tomorrow logo
Closed

Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge — 12th

🇫🇷Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational

Offers deep-tech startup challengers equity-free seed support, mentorship, and investor exposure across sectors and global markets.

AerospaceAI+13
€100K
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Closed

i-Lab Innovation Competition (Concours d'innovation i-Lab)

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Supports deep-tech startup creation through mentorship and innovation competition programs.

AIBiotech+7
€600K

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