Quantum grants in Germany

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Funds German enterprises through KfW structures for digital innovation and expansion financing.

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.

Between cycles

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

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.

Between cycles

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

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.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Open

Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.

Open

Pays SMEs a fixed EUR60,000 grant to run a six-month market feasibility project testing whether their innovation can be commercialised in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania.

Open

Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.

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Pays SMEs and startups a 60,000-euro grant to test whether their solution is viable in a target overseas market.