AI grants in the Netherlands
Explore AI grants for companies in the Netherlands. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from Dutch innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in the Netherlands, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in the Netherlands come first.
Showing 1-24 of 547 grants
Take-off Phase 1 — Feasibility Study (WO)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch academic entrepreneurs turning innovative ideas into commercially viable feasibility-focused technology studies.
VFF Early Stage Financing
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Supports early-stage venture financing that helps start-ups turn prototypes into scalable, innovation-driven products.
Dutch Future Fund (DFF I & II)
🇳🇱Invest-NL · Netherlands
Funds Dutch venture and growth managers investing in clean transition, deep technology, life science, and digital ventures.
Dutch Research Agenda (NWA)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch strategic research collaborations and pilot projects linked to national opportunities and societal challenges.
HTSM Call — Semiconductors & Quantum
🇳🇱Holland High Tech · Netherlands
Funds Dutch hardware and quantum development ideas through a call that connects research with scaling in semiconductor technologies.
Innovation Credit (Innovatiekrediet)
🇳🇱EZK · Netherlands
Funds high-risk Dutch innovation projects through a repayable government credit instrument.
Knowledge and Innovation Covenant (KIC)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds multi-sector consortium research in the Netherlands with private co-financing for innovation readiness.
MIT SME Innovation Grants
🇳🇱EZK · Netherlands
Supports Dutch small businesses with MIT Innovation Grants for projects in priority sectors and practical technology development.
PPP Innovation Scheme
🇳🇱Holland High Tech · Netherlands
Provides co-funding for Dutch innovation projects in hardware, materials, and quantum domains with high-tech and manufacturing partners.
Take-off Phase 2 — Early-Stage Loan (Vroegefasetraject)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Invests Netherlands firms in knowledge startups building commercialization-ready products through structured financing and growth-oriented milestones.
TKI-toeslag Top Sector Co-Funding
🇳🇱EZK · Netherlands
Supports Dutch innovation consortia through TKI-toeslag with public top up for high impact private-sector development work.
WBSO R&D Wage-Tax Credit
🇳🇱EZK · Netherlands
Funds Dutch companies with wage support through WBSO, reducing personnel costs for approved science and innovation activity.
MIT — R&D Collaboration Projects (Samenwerkingsprojecten)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch innovation groups through MIT cooperation grants for cross regional innovation teams.
Open Technology Programme
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch applied technology research in universities and public institutes through collaborative calls.
SME Hightech Call
🇳🇱Holland High Tech · Netherlands
Supports Dutch small and medium high-tech businesses partnering with researchers to build scalable hardware, quantum, and robotic technologies.
Eurostars — 11th
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Connects Dutch businesses to international consortia through Eurostars 11th Call to build joint innovation projects.
Globalstars Call with Taiwan 2026
🇦🇹EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds joint R&D projects between Taiwan and four European countries.
KIEM HighTech
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch industry-linked applied research pilots and prototype development in high-technology fields.
NWA Reducing Drug Harm — Pre-applications Phase 1 (Drugsschade terugdringen)
🇳🇱ZonMw · Netherlands
Funds Dutch research and societal consortia investigating drug-related harm and testing interventions to improve public policy outcomes.
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.
Digital Europe Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.
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.
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.