AI grants in Germany

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Funds advanced innovation projects advancing robotics and physical AI deep-tech initiatives toward scalable outcomes.

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Supports ARPA inspired high risk demand driven Physical AI pilots with transformative deep-tech potential.

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Pairs early-stage deep tech startups with an industry partner for a four-month co-development sprint and pays up to €250,000 with no co-investment required.

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Funds early-stage deep tech startups developing solutions at TRL 4-5 in collaboration with industry partners through a 4-month co-creation programme.

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Runs research teams and institutions for EIT Health Catapult Edition in biotechnology, medical technology, and artificial intelligence.

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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.

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Supports startups commercializing Earth observation by funding service development and downstream applications.

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Supports defense startups through EU cohorts, providing vouchers and coaching for growth.

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Funds EU teams hardening AI systems against adversarial attacks and building privacy-preserving AI for sensitive government and enterprise use.

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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.

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Funds one €9M project turning long-term field-trial data into AI decision-support tools for farmers, advisors and land managers.

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Funds research talent through annual fellowships for computing and artificial intelligence work.

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Runs themed competitions in which teams compete over several stages to solve one defined technical problem.

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Supports early-stage German innovators through a pilot challenge route with mentoring and development funding.

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Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.

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Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.

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Offers European deep-tech startups a competitive incubation route with early cash support and growth-focused follow-up.

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Funds a coordination and support action to build a European roadmap and industrial strategy for simplified, RedCap-style 5G/6G devices ahead of the next EU research framework.

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Funds one project to build an evolvable 6G telco-cloud experimental infrastructure that hosts and validates network functions and AI/Compute/Security-as-a-Service.

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Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build a unified, open benchmarking framework and suite for exascale and AI-capable supercomputers.

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Funds a business incubation hub that hands 45-60% of its EU budget on as seed grants to help European open-source geospatial software projects become sustainable businesses.

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Funds digital tools that extend electronic freight-data platforms beyond today's regulatory requirements for business-to-business data sharing.

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Pays physical-AI robotics teams a fixed EUR 300,000 lump-sum grant to validate a prototype and then build it into a real-world-tested system.

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Funds generative, foundation and agentic AI for faster materials development, safer plants and more efficient industrial processes.