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 2,163 grants
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.
KMU-innovativ: Medizintechnik
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German SME-led medtech R&D projects with grants up to EUR 300,000.
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.
The KMU-innovativ funding programme
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds R&D projects at German SMEs and research institutions with rates up to 100%.
Wildlife Protection
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for satellite-enabled wildlife-protection services.
Germany KfW ERP Digital Innovation Loans
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds German enterprises through KfW structures for digital innovation and expansion financing.
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.
AI chip demonstrators for EU compute infrastructure
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Pays up to ten European chip companies between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million each to build working AI chip prototypes and get them tested on a shared EU evaluation platform.
AI compute evaluation and deployment platform for EU infrastructure
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Pays one consortium up to EUR 70 million to build a common EU platform for evaluating and deploying European AI chips and racks.
Digital Europe Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Advanced Materials for Miniaturised Energy Harvesting Systems
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports developing advanced materials for miniaturised energy harvesters to power IoT and sensor networks autonomously.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Biotechnology for Healthy Ageing
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports translating decades of ageing biology into biotech or pharma proofs-of-concept that prevent, delay or revert age-related disease.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DeepRAP — Deep Reasoning, Abstraction and Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports cognitive AI development focused on trustworthy deep reasoning, abstraction, and planning capabilities.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Funds breakthrough research teams tackling bold technology questions from concept through proof-of-concept under the European Innovation Council framework.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2026
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds deep-tech research consortia with EIC Pathfinder grants up to €4 million.
BASS Kick-start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled applications in agriculture, climate monitoring, and transport innovation.
ITEA Call for Projects 2026
🇦🇹ITEA · Global / Multinational
Funds international R&D consortia through each country's own national funding scheme.