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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Automated Scientific Discovery – Food (RAISE pilot)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a pilot lab where AI and automation run safer, faster and more reproducible food-science experiments.
Automated Scientific Discovery (RAISE pilot)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €10M projects that retrofit advanced laboratories with trustworthy AI for closed-loop scientific discovery.
Made in Europe: Circular Factory Remanufacturing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €5–6.5M research projects that automate factory de-manufacturing and remanufacturing for a more circular European industry.
Eurostars Call 12 for projects
🇪🇺RVO · Netherlands
Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.
EIC Advanced Innovation Challenges — Stage 2
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds advanced innovation projects advancing robotics and physical AI deep-tech initiatives toward scalable outcomes.
Advanced Innovation Challenge: Accelerating Physical AI
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports ARPA inspired high risk demand driven Physical AI pilots with transformative deep-tech potential.
Co-Creation Accelerator 2026-2027
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Pairs early-stage deep tech startups with an industry partner for a four-month co-development sprint and pays up to €250,000 with no co-investment required.
EIT Digital Co-Creation Accelerator
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Funds early-stage deep tech startups developing solutions at TRL 4-5 in collaboration with industry partners through a 4-month co-creation programme.
EIT Health Catapult 10th Edition
🇪🇺EIT Health · European Union
Runs research teams and institutions for EIT Health Catapult Edition in biotechnology, medical technology, and artificial intelligence.
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.
ESA InCubed — Co-funding
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Supports startups commercializing Earth observation by funding service development and downstream applications.
EUDIS Business Accelerator
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Supports defense startups through EU cohorts, providing vouchers and coaching for growth.
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.
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.
Microsoft Research Fellowship
🇺🇸Microsoft · United States
Funds research talent through annual fellowships for computing and artificial intelligence work.
SPRIND Challenges
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Runs themed competitions in which teams compete over several stages to solve one defined technical problem.
SPRIND Funke
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Supports early-stage German innovators through a pilot challenge route with mentoring and development funding.
EIC Pathfinder Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
28DIGITAL Venture Incubation Program
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Offers European deep-tech startups a competitive incubation route with early cash support and growth-focused follow-up.
6G Devices
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
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.
6G Telco Cloud and Service Provision Enablers
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds one project to build an evolvable 6G telco-cloud experimental infrastructure that hosts and validates network functions and AI/Compute/Security-as-a-Service.
A European HPC-centric Benchmark Framework
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build a unified, open benchmarking framework and suite for exascale and AI-capable supercomputers.