Quantum grants in Germany

Awards up to €20,000 in prize money to startups founded in Berlin or Brandenburg.

Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.

Pays startups, research teams and enterprises a share of $200,000 in prizes for solutions that turn quantum computing research into deployable industrial pilots across five sectors.

Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

Open

Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.

Open

Invests in hardware, aerospace, and defense innovation founders through a corporate venture platform tied to Lockheed Martin.

Between cycles

Funds teams of two to four principal investigators carrying out joint frontier research in any scientific field through ERC Synergy Grants.

Between cycles

Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.

Awards a free exhibition pod, travel and mentorship to deep-tech scale-ups that place in this annual competition at GITEX North Star in Dubai.

Between cycles

Supports allocation of exascale compute resources for scientific codes and high-impact computing studies.

Between cycles

Runs research teams and institutions for INCITE Allocation in artificial intelligence, quantum systems, and energy systems.

Between cycles

Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.

Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.

Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.

Awards up to $500 for sharp expert insight on tokenization, AI and quantum in finance.

Funds three-year PhD fellowships in quantum science and technology at Bavarian universities.

Closed

Supports United Kingdom quantum biology research linking physics tools to biological discovery challenges.

Closed

Funds two early-career female researchers with a two-year quantum-science postdoc in Austria.

Closed

Awards a $5 million prize purse to teams that design quantum algorithms and applications ready to deliver real-world impact once quantum hardware matures.

Closed

Funds quantum application teams bridging fundamental discovery to practical deployment-ready technologies.

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

Open

Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.

Open

Pays international research consortiums roughly €3-3.75 million to build cross-regional creative-industry and cultural-diplomacy partnerships between Europe and world regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to develop policy solutions for the sustainable, science-informed governance of shared global resources like the climate, biodiversity and outer space.