AI grants in Germany
Explore AI grants for companies in Germany. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from German innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in Germany, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in Germany come first.
Showing 25-48 of 571 grants
Future Internet Kick-Start
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds Kick-start studies exploring space-enabled Future Internet applications.
MESRI-BMBF German-French Joint Call For Proposals on Artificial Intelligence
🇫🇷ANR · Global / Multinational
Funds joint French-German AI research projects worth up to EUR 800,000 each.
Open Idea Competition
🇩🇪hessian.AI · Germany
Pays unincorporated AI founders up to €2,500 for their startup idea pitch.
The KMU-innovativ funding programme
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds R&D projects at German SMEs and research institutions with rates up to 100%.
AI chip demonstrators for EU compute infrastructure
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Pays up to ten European chip companies between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million each to build working AI chip prototypes and get them tested on a shared EU evaluation platform.
AI compute evaluation and deployment platform for EU infrastructure
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Pays one consortium up to EUR 70 million to build a common EU platform for evaluating and deploying European AI chips and racks.
Digital Europe Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DeepRAP — Deep Reasoning, Abstraction and Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports cognitive AI development focused on trustworthy deep reasoning, abstraction, and planning capabilities.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Funds breakthrough research teams tackling bold technology questions from concept through proof-of-concept under the European Innovation Council framework.
BASS Kick-start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled applications in agriculture, climate monitoring, and transport innovation.
Horizon Border Security: Accessible Travel Facilitation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M border-crossing tech projects, run with Border or Coast Guard Authorities, built for travelers with disabilities or low digital skills.
Interregional Innovation Investments Strand 1
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Connects research teams and institutions for Interregional Innovation Investments Strand in manufacturing, materials science, and agriculture innovation.
Interregional Innovation Investments Strand 2a
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Funds EISMEA Interregional Innovation Investments for small and medium-sized enterprises in developing European regions through cross-border transfer and capability building.
MSCA Doctoral Networks (HORIZON-MSCA-DN)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds European doctoral networks enabling multi-country training in life and engineering sciences.
RAISE Doctoral Networks for AI in Science (RAISE pilot)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds doctoral networks whose research depends on building new AI tools that push forward a specific scientific discipline, selected through the main MSCA Doctoral Networks call.
BASS — Wildfires
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds space-enabled wildfire monitoring programs improving response, prediction, and ecosystem safety.
Horizon Energy: AI Foundation Models for Grid Data
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €10M projects that pool energy data and train AI foundation models on it, tested in lab demonstrators and real-life pilots.
Innowwide — Next
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Offers market-feasibility support for small companies exploring non-European markets through Europe-wide innovation networks.
EIC Accelerator — Short Proposal
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.
ERC Consolidator Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds researchers 5 to 15 years past their PhD who are building an independent research team in Europe through an ERC Consolidator Grant.
Quantum Machine Learning
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Funds research building and benchmarking quantum-enhanced machine-learning methods for real-world, data-heavy problems.
ESA BIC — Incubation
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Provides equity-free incubation funding and business support for space-related startups across Europe.
Eureka Network Projects — Permanent
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Offers open access collaboration through Eureka Network Projects so small enterprises can join international innovation groups.