Semiconductors grants in Germany

Open

Pays European manufacturers to expand production capacity for the electronic components that bottleneck drone, missile and defence-electronics supply chains.

Open

Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.

Open

Offers open access collaboration through Eureka Network Projects so small enterprises can join international innovation groups.

Open

Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.

Open

Supports internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers placed in Israeli institutions to build independent research careers through EU mobility fellowships.

Scheduled

Funds six €3–5M research projects that make integrated photonic circuits more capable, compact and power-efficient.

Scheduled

Funds €6M consortia that open Europe’s best research infrastructures to challenge-driven users and EU priorities.

Scheduled

Funds one €250–300k research project to rebuild secure European supply chains for critical space electronics and components.

Between cycles

Funds European semiconductor consortia developing power electronics for advanced hardware.

Between cycles

Funds late stage deep tech start ups and small businesses with combined non dilutive and growth support across technology fields.

Between cycles

Invests in scale-up ventures in digital, clean technology, and biotechnology through equity to accelerate commercialization pathways.

Between cycles

Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.

Between cycles

Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.

Between cycles

Invests in European deep-tech scale-up ventures with momentum needing capital for commercial expansion.

Between cycles

Funds early-stage deep tech startups developing solutions at TRL 4-5 in collaboration with industry partners through a 4-month co-creation programme.

Between cycles

Supports international consortia so small companies can turn joint innovation into export-ready products.

Closed

Pays up to 25 small consortia EUR 200,000 each to test the commercial exploitation potential of results that already came out of earlier Horizon Europe or Horizon 2020 Cluster 4 projects.

Funds a coordination and support action to build a European roadmap and industrial strategy for simplified, RedCap-style 5G/6G devices ahead of the next EU research framework.

Funds one consortium to coordinate Europe's advanced-packaging semiconductor ecosystem across supply-chain resilience, standardisation and workforce training.

Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.

Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.

Closed

Funds research into a shared EU chiplet library that lets defence electronics mix and match chip building blocks instead of custom ASICs.

Funds up to four teams to build edge AI chip prototypes that combine real-time on-device learning with ultra-low power consumption.

Closed

Funds a complete tunable 6G radio front-end module for 7–15 GHz, combining European microelectronics with low-energy operation.