Hardware grants in Germany

Scheduled

Funds two €8.5M projects that modernise existing hydropower plants for efficient, flexible and climate-resilient electricity generation.

Scheduled

Funds €7.5M projects that turn obsolete energy and industrial infrastructure into secure, circular energy storage for a more flexible grid.

Between cycles

Funds late stage deep tech start ups and small businesses with combined non dilutive and growth support across technology fields.

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Invests in European deep-tech scale-up ventures with momentum needing capital for commercial expansion.

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Invests in scale-up ventures in digital, clean technology, and biotechnology through equity to accelerate commercialization pathways.

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Funds six €6–8M projects that make strategic European products with less critical material, energy and imported-input dependence.

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Funds 25 €200k projects that turn Cluster 4 research results into tested, investable products, services and businesses.

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Funds two €1.5–2.5M actions that give European startups and SMEs simpler access to advanced research and technology infrastructure.

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Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.

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

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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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Supports research teams and institutions for EIT RawMaterials KAVA Upscaling in materials science, energy systems, and climate technology.

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

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Supports HMGCC Accelerate through a six week HMGCC and Plexal engineering programme for hardware and software security firms.

Between cycles

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

Closed

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

Closed

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

Closed

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

Closed

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.

Closed

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.

Closed

Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build an open benchmarking framework for hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing systems.

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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.

Closed

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 6G network-architecture research on simplified control/user-plane designs, constrained AI for network operations, and serverless multi-domain service orchestration.