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.
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Digital Europe Programme – AI Data Call (DIGITAL-2026-AI-DATA-10)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds EU consortia improving the availability, quality and use of AI-relevant data infrastructure under the Digital Europe Programme.
Digital solutions for regulatory compliance through data
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds pilot projects that automate EU regulatory reporting, like environmental filings or company data, using privacy-preserving data-sharing technology.
Horizon CCAM: Generative AI for Perception & Decision-Making
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6.5M projects using generative AI to sharpen real-time perception and decision-making for automated vehicles.
Horizon Mobility: AI for Transport Disruption Resilience
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M projects that give transport operators AI tools to predict service disruptions and cut passenger delay across real multimodal corridors.
ERC Starting Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds early-career researchers building an independent research team and pursuing frontier research through an ERC Starting Grant hosted at a public or private research organisation.
SPRIND Recoding Medicine Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds teams that curate a valuable health dataset and prove its worth with a working AI application.
SPRIND Next Frontier Robotics Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds European teams building complete multi-purpose robots or the breakthrough hardware inside them.
AI chip demonstrators for EU compute infrastructure
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Pays up to ten European chip companies between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million each to build working AI chip prototypes and get them tested on a shared EU evaluation platform.
AI compute evaluation and deployment platform for EU infrastructure
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Pays one consortium up to EUR 70 million to build a common EU platform for evaluating and deploying European AI chips and racks.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DeepRAP — Deep Reasoning, Abstraction and Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports cognitive AI development focused on trustworthy deep reasoning, abstraction, and planning capabilities.
DeepRAP: Deep Reasoning, Abstraction & Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI Systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research consortia building trustworthy cognitive AI systems that go beyond today's deep learning at reasoning, abstraction and long-term planning.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Funds breakthrough research teams tackling bold technology questions from concept through proof-of-concept under the European Innovation Council framework.
Horizon Border Security: Accessible Travel Facilitation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M border-crossing tech projects, run with Border or Coast Guard Authorities, built for travelers with disabilities or low digital skills.
Interregional Innovation Investments Strand 1
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Connects research teams and institutions for Interregional Innovation Investments Strand in manufacturing, materials science, and agriculture innovation.
Interregional Innovation Investments Strand 2a
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Funds EISMEA Interregional Innovation Investments for small and medium-sized enterprises in developing European regions through cross-border transfer and capability building.
MSCA Doctoral Networks (HORIZON-MSCA-DN)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds European doctoral networks enabling multi-country training in life and engineering sciences.
RAISE Doctoral Networks for AI in Science (RAISE pilot)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds doctoral networks whose research depends on building new AI tools that push forward a specific scientific discipline, selected through the main MSCA Doctoral Networks call.
EDF Development Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds defence technology validation and prototype demonstration across digital transformation, air defence, and space integration.
EDF Research Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds collaborative European defense research consortia delivering disruptive solutions across security, space, and quantum technologies.
EUDIS (Disruptive Technologies and SME Calls)
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Supports small and medium defense innovators across Europe through development calls, coaching, and early-stage consortium opportunities.
Horizon Energy: AI Foundation Models for Grid Data
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €10M projects that pool energy data and train AI foundation models on it, tested in lab demonstrators and real-life pilots.
EIC Accelerator — Short Proposal
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.
Quantum Machine Learning
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Funds research building and benchmarking quantum-enhanced machine-learning methods for real-world, data-heavy problems.