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 565 grants
Artificial Intelligence Kick-Start
🇮🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies that combine artificial intelligence with space data.
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.
Horizon Buildings: Whole Life Carbon Data Platforms
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €5.25M projects that plug embodied and operational carbon data into building certificates, passports and BIM tools.
Horizon Cyber: Robust & Private AI Systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds EU teams hardening AI systems against adversarial attacks and building privacy-preserving AI for sensitive government and enterprise use.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
ERC Proof of Concept Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds existing ERC grant holders in testing the commercial or societal potential of already-funded research through a fixed EUR 150,000 top-up grant.
Artistic intelligence — harnessing the power of the arts for complex challenges, soft skills and innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €4.5-5 million to study and pilot art-science-technology collaborations that boost innovation, soft skills and human-centred technology.
Horizon Ocean Mission: Regional Digital Twin
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one project per sea basin that plugs local ocean data into the EU's shared Digital Twin Ocean platform, for marine policy and Blue Economy use.
Horizon Soil Mission: AI Decision Tools for Soil Management
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €9M project turning long-term field-trial data into AI decision-support tools for farmers, advisors and land managers.
EUDIS Non-Thematic SME Open Call
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Backs defense innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations across EU member states.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – organisation of a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build and run a shared testing environment where other teams' AI-and-robot tactical-awareness research gets evaluated.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research teams up to EUR 4.6 million each to develop AI-and-robot tactical threat detection and test it in a shared technological challenge.
Enhanced cognitive EW system with intelligent RESM CESM signal analysis
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to build an AI-driven electronic-warfare system that can detect and respond to threats faster than a human operator.
Modelling & simulation supported AI framework for military decision-making and training
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to EUR 8 million per proposal to build an AI framework for military simulation, war-gaming and decision-making training.
Multidomain sensors demonstrator and test
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build a radar demonstrator that tracks hypersonic threats and anti-drone targets using AI-assisted signal processing.
Apply AI: Piloting AI-based image screening in medical centres
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds hospital consortia to pilot cloud-based AI systems that read medical scans for cancer and cardiovascular screening, with clinicians validating every result.
Digital Europe — Advanced Digital Skills (10th batch)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds European entities expanding advanced digital skills with AI and cybersecurity programs.
Digital Europe Programme – AI Data Call (DIGITAL-2026-AI-DATA-10)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds EU consortia improving the availability, quality and use of AI-relevant data infrastructure under the Digital Europe Programme.
Digital solutions for regulatory compliance through data
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds pilot projects that automate EU regulatory reporting, like environmental filings or company data, using privacy-preserving data-sharing technology.
Horizon CCAM: Generative AI for Perception & Decision-Making
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6.5M projects using generative AI to sharpen real-time perception and decision-making for automated vehicles.
Horizon Mobility: AI for Transport Disruption Resilience
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M projects that give transport operators AI tools to predict service disruptions and cut passenger delay across real multimodal corridors.
ERC Starting Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds early-career researchers building an independent research team and pursuing frontier research through an ERC Starting Grant hosted at a public or private research organisation.