AI grants in the Netherlands

Between cycles

Supports international consortia so small companies can turn joint innovation into export-ready products.

Between cycles

Offers market-feasibility support for small companies exploring non-European markets through Europe-wide innovation networks.

Between cycles

Funds research talent through annual fellowships for computing and artificial intelligence work.

Between cycles

Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.

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.

Closed

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

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.

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.

Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build a unified, open benchmarking framework and suite for exascale and AI-capable supercomputers.

Closed

Funds a business incubation hub that hands 45-60% of its EU budget on as seed grants to help European open-source geospatial software projects become sustainable businesses.

Closed

Funds digital tools that extend electronic freight-data platforms beyond today's regulatory requirements for business-to-business data sharing.

Closed

Pays physical-AI robotics teams a fixed EUR 300,000 lump-sum grant to validate a prototype and then build it into a real-world-tested system.

Closed

Funds generative, foundation and agentic AI for faster materials development, safer plants and more efficient industrial processes.

Funds 6G network-architecture research on simplified control/user-plane designs, constrained AI for network operations, and serverless multi-domain service orchestration.

Closed

Pays deep-tech start-ups, SMEs and research organisations a €300,000 lump sum in Stage 1, then up to €2.5 million in Stage 2, to push high-risk breakthrough innovations that lack commercial uptake toward real-world, demand-tested deployment.

Closed

Funds AI-driven and automated farming solutions for greenhouses, vertical farms and other controlled environment agriculture, with money for SMEs to test them.

Closed

Funds work that makes EOSC's research data and repositories AI-ready and machine-actionable, in line with the GenAI4EU initiative.

Funds a flagship project that federates EU health data and pilots AI tools for cardiovascular risk prediction, prevention and personalised care.

Funds AI teams building generative-AI tools for clinical-dataset enhancement or automotive crash-test case generation, paying up to €100,000 in prizes after an initial €28,500 concept-stage award.

Closed

Funds AI tools that combine Earth observation and socioeconomic data for environmental policy, resilience and competitiveness.

Funds one national entity or consortium per EuroHPC country to run an AI Factory Antenna offering AI compute access, training and support tied to an established AI Factory.

Closed

Funds factory AI that adapts production in real time, improves quality, and cuts scrap, energy use and carbon emissions.

Closed

Funds around four projects, each worth EUR 13 million, to use AI and self-driving labs to speed up the discovery of new chemicals and materials.