Grants in Ireland

Between cycles

Funds international collaborative R&D projects year-round, with each partner paid, if at all, by their own country's national funding agency.

Between cycles

Funds proof-of-concept and pilot projects for agrifood startups collaborating with corporate partners.

Between cycles

Funds businesses building commercial services on top of space assets.

Between cycles

Invests startup and industry teams with commercialization support for Seedbed Venture Catalyst TeamUp in food technology, agriculture innovation, and climate technology.

Between cycles

Funds space-based digital-transformation services for the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Between cycles

Offers early-career deep-tech researchers a free venture-creation and pre-incubation programme with training, coaching and a European bootcamp.

Between cycles

Runs themed competitions in which teams compete over several stages to solve one defined technical problem.

Between cycles

Supports early-stage German innovators through a pilot challenge route with mentoring and development funding.

Between cycles

Offers founders in Europe intensive startup mentorship, seed funding, and founder matching through Antler's global venture network.

Between cycles

Offers European health founders early support from EIT Health through mentorship, networks, and commercialization guidance.

Closed

Invests research teams and institutions for LIFE Strategic Integrated Projects & Strategic Nature Projects in climate technology, agriculture innovation, and built environment.

Closed

Funds large, multi-year projects that drive full implementation of an existing climate mitigation or adaptation plan, with EUR 30 million set aside for this topic in 2026.

Closed

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

Closed

Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.

Closed

Funds university-led European consortia building innovation and entrepreneurship capacity through grants of up to EUR 2 million.

Closed

Funds EIT Knowledge and Innovation Communities delivering business plans, cross-KIC work and higher-education activities through EU grants.

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.

Closed

Offers European deep-tech scaleups a year of fundraising support and investor access.

Closed

Offers European deep-tech startups a competitive incubation route with early cash support and growth-focused follow-up.

Closed

Pays companies up to 60,000 EUR to test space-enabled 5G/6G service ideas.

Closed

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.

Closed

Funds research on core technologies that let satellite (non-terrestrial) and terrestrial 6G networks operate as one seamless system.

Closed

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.

Closed

Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build an open benchmarking framework for hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing systems.