Grants in Germany

Between cycles

Funds environmental programs that improve ecosystem restoration, climate adaptation, and energy-transition readiness.

Between cycles

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

Between cycles

Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.

Between cycles

Funds international collaborative R&D projects year-round, with each partner paid, if at all, by their own country's national funding agency.

Between cycles

Funds proof-of-concept and pilot projects for agrifood startups collaborating with corporate partners.

Between cycles

Funds businesses building commercial services on top of space assets.

Funds early-stage quantum-computing firms to build a technical and financial roadmap.

Between cycles

Invests startup and industry teams with commercialization support for Seedbed Venture Catalyst TeamUp in food technology, agriculture innovation, and climate technology.

Reimburses EU SMEs up to €2,500 for trademark, patent, and plant-variety filings.

Between cycles

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

Between cycles

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

Between cycles

Offers founders in Europe intensive startup mentorship, seed funding, and founder matching through Antler's global venture network.

Between cycles

Offers European health founders early support from EIT Health through mentorship, networks, and commercialization guidance.

Closed

Funds university-led European consortia building innovation and entrepreneurship capacity through grants of up to EUR 2 million.

Closed

Funds EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities delivering business plans, cross-KIC work and higher-education activities through EU grants.

Closed

Pays up to 25 small consortia EUR 200,000 each to test the commercial exploitation potential of results that already came out of earlier Horizon Europe or Horizon 2020 Cluster 4 projects.

Closed

Offers European deep-tech scaleups a year of fundraising support and investor access.

Closed

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

Closed

Pays companies up to 60,000 EUR to test space-enabled 5G/6G service ideas.

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.

Funds research on core technologies that let satellite (non-terrestrial) and terrestrial 6G networks operate as one seamless system.

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.

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

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