Grants in Germany
Explore grants for companies in Germany. This directory includes national and regional funding 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 Germany come first.
Showing 73-96 of 2,125 grants
Food Security
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for satellite-enabled food-security services.
Future Internet Kick-Start
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds Kick-start studies exploring space-enabled Future Internet applications.
Industry 4.0 and High Value Manufacturing Kick-Start Activities
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays up to EUR60K, no equity taken, for space-enabled smart-factory ideas.
Innovation Award 2026
🇩🇪Vogt & Paap · Germany
Awards €15,000 in prize money plus up to €75,000 in support to sustainable-innovation startups.
International Cardiovascular Research Partnership Awards (ICRPA) 2026
🇩🇪DZHK · Germany
Funds DZHK researchers co-leading international preclinical cardiovascular research projects.
KfW Founders Award 2026
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Awards 35,000 EUR total to young German start-ups founded since 2021.
KMU-innovativ: Forschung für die zivile Sicherheit
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German SME-led consortia developing civil-security technology.
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.
People Mobility
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for satellite-enabled urban mobility services.
SIGMA Sub-objective 4: Bilateral cooperation — 16th
🇨🇿TA CR · Czechia
Funds Czech and partner organizations for bilateral innovation projects in strategic sectors including energy.
Wildlife Protection
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for satellite-enabled wildlife-protection services.
Regional Transformation Networks (Module A)
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German companies, associations, universities, and research institutions that build regional automotive-industry transformation networks through BMWE grants.
Transformation Hubs (Module B)
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German companies, associations, universities, and research institutions that operate automotive-industry technology-transfer hubs through BMWE grants.
Coordination for Cross-Sector Nuclear Technologies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds coordination of European nuclear research platforms across energy, medicine, space, maritime uses and radiation protection.
Euratom Radiation Protection Partnership (PIANOFORTE)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds PIANOFORTE’s 2026-27 continuation, an EU radiation-safety research partnership — only for its current members and any partner who joins them.
European Stable Isotopes for Nuclear Medicine
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds industrial production of stable isotopes needed for radionuclide therapies and a more resilient European medical supply chain.
Horizon Batteries: EV Recycling Pilot with India
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €9.4M lithium-ion battery recycling pilot line in India, matched to a separately funded Indian project on the same schedule.
Horizon Batteries: Sustainable Electrode Materials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds four €7.1M projects that make battery electrode materials cleaner to produce — via greener refining or plant-based sourcing instead of mined graphite.
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 Cancer Mission: Mental Health for Young Survivors
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €7M platform giving adolescent and young adult cancer patients and survivors personalized digital tools for coping and psychological support.
Horizon Cancer Mission: Microbiome Early Detection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €15M project that turns microbiome signals into a test for spotting cancer risk years ahead of any symptoms.
Horizon Cancer Mission: Older Patients' Quality of Life
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds five projects, €5-6M each, that develop and test care approaches built around what cancer patients over 65 actually need during and after treatment.
Horizon Cancer Mission: Precision Palliative Care
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €5M projects that build earlier, AI-assisted palliative care models for cancer patients and test them in real clinical and home-based settings.