Quantum grants in Germany
Explore Quantum grants for companies in Germany. This list brings together funding for quantum computing, sensing, communications and quantum software 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 Quantum in Germany come first.
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WIPANO Standards Participation for Companies
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German companies with up to 1,000 employees taking part in national, European, and international standardization committees through WIPANO.
WIPANO Patenting for Companies
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German small and medium-sized enterprises protecting their own research and development results with patents and other industrial property rights through WIPANO.
EXIST-Forschungstransfer — Research Transfer Grant
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Supports research-intensive spinouts through staged development from discovery to company readiness.
KMU-innovativ — Stichtag
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German SMEs pursuing high-impact R&D across 11 technology fields including biomedicine, bioeconomy, ICT, climate, energy, materials, medtech, photonics, and more.
SPRIND R&D Grants
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds German teams through SPRIND grants with outcome linked support for technology development and testing pathways.
WIPANO Knowledge Transfer through Standardization
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German companies and public research organizations that convert publicly funded research into technical standards through joint WIPANO cooperation projects.
ZIM R&D Cooperation Projects
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Administers collaborative grants for German firms and research partners to run joint innovation projects.
Deep Tech Award
🇩🇪Berlin Senate Dept · Germany
Splits a €50,000 total prize each year among Berlin-based deep-tech companies and startups.
SPRIND Equity Investments & Convertible Loans
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Invests in German deep-tech ventures through shared-equity support with private co-financing and downside risk share.
ZIM Individual R&D Projects
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Supports German small and medium-sized enterprises with technology-neutral projects for new products, processes, and services.
ZIM Feasibility Studies
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German small businesses preparing technology concepts for future project development and commercialization planning.
ZIM Innovation Networks
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Supports German innovation ecosystems by funding management of networks that connect multiple companies and institutions.
Enabling Technologies for Resilient R&D Supply Chains in Quantum Technologies
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German consortia building enabling tech for quantum computing and sensing.
The KMU-innovativ funding programme
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds R&D projects at German SMEs and research institutions with rates up to 100%.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.
EIC Accelerator — Short Proposal
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.
ERC Consolidator Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds researchers 5 to 15 years past their PhD who are building an independent research team in Europe through an ERC Consolidator Grant.
Quantum Machine Learning
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Funds research building and benchmarking quantum-enhanced machine-learning methods for real-world, data-heavy problems.
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships — ISERD)
🇪🇺ISERD · Israel
Supports internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers placed in Israeli institutions to build independent research careers through EU mobility fellowships.
Digital Technology Foresight Forum
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €4M coordination action to spot future digital technologies and connect the people who can bring them into use.
Quantum Space Gravimetry
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €14–15M projects that mature quantum gravimeters for space and build Europe's next Earth-observation sensing capability.
New primitives and protocols for future hybrid classical-quantum networks
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds foundational quantum-cryptography research for secure future hybrid networks.
EIC Accelerator Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds late stage deep tech start ups and small businesses with combined non dilutive and growth support across technology fields.
STEP Scale Up
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Invests in European deep-tech scale-up ventures with momentum needing capital for commercial expansion.