AI grants in Ireland
Explore AI grants for companies in Ireland. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from Irish innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in Ireland, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in Ireland come first.
Showing 1-24 of 543 grants
European Digital Innovation Hubs Ireland — discounted services
🇮🇪Enterprise Ireland · Ireland
Funds Irish small businesses and public sector bodies with digital innovation services spanning AI cybersecurity and data systems.
IDA Ireland RD&I Feasibility Grant
🇮🇪IDA Ireland · Ireland
Funds Ireland-based firms with feasibility support before major innovation commitments.
Research Ireland Frontiers for the Future
🇮🇪Research Ireland · Ireland
Funds high-risk investigator-driven research in Ireland across frontier technology and translational discovery.
US-Ireland R&D Partnership
🇮🇪Research Ireland · Ireland
Funds tri jurisdiction collaboration between the United States, Republic of Ireland, and Northern Ireland through a science and technology partnership.
IDA Ireland Business Development Programme
🇮🇪IDA Ireland · Ireland
Supports strategic digital transformation planning for multinational enterprises in Ireland through IDA-funded consultancy assistance.
IDA Ireland RD&I Grant
🇮🇪IDA Ireland · Ireland
Funds companies investing in Ireland with support for collaborative innovation.
Artificial Intelligence Kick-Start
🇮🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies that combine artificial intelligence with space data.
NovaUCD AI Ecosystem Accelerator
🇮🇪NovaUCD · Ireland
Supports Irish AI startups with mentorship, technical guidance, workspace, and investor showcase events.
Secondary Data Analysis Projects (SDAP) — Cycle 2
🇮🇪HRB (Health Research Board Ire · Ireland
Supports Irish research groups analysing existing health and social care data to answer policy-relevant questions and improve practice.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.
Horizon Buildings: Whole Life Carbon Data Platforms
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €5.25M projects that plug embodied and operational carbon data into building certificates, passports and BIM tools.
Horizon Cyber: Robust & Private AI Systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds EU teams hardening AI systems against adversarial attacks and building privacy-preserving AI for sensitive government and enterprise use.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
ERC Proof of Concept Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds existing ERC grant holders in testing the commercial or societal potential of already-funded research through a fixed EUR 150,000 top-up grant.
Artistic intelligence — harnessing the power of the arts for complex challenges, soft skills and innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €4.5-5 million to study and pilot art-science-technology collaborations that boost innovation, soft skills and human-centred technology.
Horizon Ocean Mission: Regional Digital Twin
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one project per sea basin that plugs local ocean data into the EU's shared Digital Twin Ocean platform, for marine policy and Blue Economy use.
Horizon Soil Mission: AI Decision Tools for Soil Management
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €9M project turning long-term field-trial data into AI decision-support tools for farmers, advisors and land managers.
EUDIS Non-Thematic SME Open Call
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Backs defense innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations across EU member states.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – organisation of a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build and run a shared testing environment where other teams' AI-and-robot tactical-awareness research gets evaluated.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research teams up to EUR 4.6 million each to develop AI-and-robot tactical threat detection and test it in a shared technological challenge.
Enhanced cognitive EW system with intelligent RESM CESM signal analysis
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to build an AI-driven electronic-warfare system that can detect and respond to threats faster than a human operator.
Modelling & simulation supported AI framework for military decision-making and training
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to EUR 8 million per proposal to build an AI framework for military simulation, war-gaming and decision-making training.
Multidomain sensors demonstrator and test
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build a radar demonstrator that tracks hypersonic threats and anti-drone targets using AI-assisted signal processing.
Apply AI: Piloting AI-based image screening in medical centres
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds hospital consortia to pilot cloud-based AI systems that read medical scans for cancer and cardiovascular screening, with clinicians validating every result.