Mobility grants in Germany
Explore Mobility grants for companies in Germany. This list brings together funding for electric vehicles, batteries, autonomous driving, public transport and logistics technology 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 Mobility in Germany come first.
Showing 169-192 of 375 grants
Support of the new EU renewable and low carbon fuel ecosystem for waterborne transport
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one coordination project up to EUR 2 million to help at least 20 renewable-marine-fuel proposals get investment-ready and reach EU and EIB funding schemes.
Support to the European FRMCS Deployment Group
🇪🇺EU-RAIL JU · European Union
Pays one consortium to coordinate Europe's switch from the ageing GSM-R rail radio system to the 5G-based FRMCS standard.
Sustainable Competitive Digital Green Rail Freight Services
🇪🇺EU-RAIL JU · European Union
Funds one flagship consortium to roll out digital automatic couplers, automated yard shunting and cross-border freight booking systems for European rail.
Transformation to trajectory-based operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds industrial research building the flight-planning and network systems needed for trajectory-based air traffic operations.
TRUNSPORT Open Call 1
🇪🇺TRUNSPORT · European Union
Funds testing and validation of transport cybersecurity solutions with grants up to €60,000.
Urban Mobility Explained (UMX) Open Call
🇪🇺EIT Urban Mobility · European Union
Funds providers building professional training courses that close the urban-mobility skills gap.
ERP Digitalization Loan and Grant (511/512)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds companies and freelancers in Germany delivering digitalization projects with subsidized loans and grants up to €200,000.
ERP Start-up and Succession Loan (077)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds founders, successors and young companies in Germany with guaranteed loans up to €500,000.
ERP Start-up Loan – StartGeld (067)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds founders and young companies setting up or growing a business in Germany with loans up to €200,000.
Eureka France-Germany Call for Projects (Bpifrance / ZIM)
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French and German collaborative companies with bilateral support for joint innovation projects.
NSTC (Taiwan) Research Fellowship for Researchers from Germany — Seed
🇩🇪NSTC Taiwan · Taiwan
Supports Taiwan researchers with structured pathways in international researcher exchanges and mobility, from planning to deployment.
High-Tech Founders Fund (High-Tech Gründerfonds, HTGF)
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Backs deep technology and medtech startups in Germany with investment and follow-on support through High-Tech Gründerfonds.
KfW ERP Innovation Loan (ERP-Förderkredit Innovation, 513/514)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Supports German manufacturers with subsidised innovation financing for innovation modernization.
Business Plan Competition Northern Bavaria
🇩🇪BayStartUP · Germany
Awards cash prizes and expert coaching to Franconia and Upper Palatinate founders who complete the three phases of this regional business plan competition.
Excellence Strategy — Clusters of Excellence Round 2 (decision, funding from)
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds seven-year cross-disciplinary research clusters at German universities to strengthen international competitiveness and talent development.
Excellence Strategy — Universities of Excellence Round 2 (decision, funding from)
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German universities strengthening long-term excellence through institutional research programs.
HAW-ForschungsAkzente — Stichtag
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German applied-science universities pursuing multi-year projects across multiple technology domains.
IONOS Cloud Startup Programme
IONOS Cloud · Germany
Gives eligible startups up to €100,000 in IONOS Cloud service credit, usable over as long as 24 months, through its SPARK and ACCELERATE tiers.
Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (ZIM)
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German SME R&D projects, covering up to 60% of eligible costs.
Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition (BPW)
🇩🇪BPW · Germany
Awards up to €20,000 in prize money to startups founded in Berlin or Brandenburg.
German-Swedish Call for joint R&D projects by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises spring 2026
🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden
Funds joint R&D projects between Swedish and German SMEs in any technology area.
Germany KfW ERP Digital Innovation Loans
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds German enterprises through KfW structures for digital innovation and expansion financing.
BE Fellows — Explorer
Breakthrough Energy · United States
Funds early climate research by university experts, enabling high-upside experiments before ventures are spun out.
Defence Rapid Impact
UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds innovators from any country developing near-term defence technology prototypes at TRL 6 or 7 through the MOD Defence Innovation Fund.