Hardware grants in the Netherlands
Explore Hardware grants for companies in the Netherlands. This list brings together funding for electronics, devices, sensors, prototyping and hardware startups 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 Hardware in the Netherlands come first.
Showing 97-120 of 302 grants
SPRIND Next Frontier AI Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds German teams through frontier innovation programmes for AI and advanced prototype development.
SPRIND Next Frontier Robotics Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds European teams building complete multi-purpose robots or the breakthrough hardware inside them.
Wireless Communication Technologies and Signal Processing – Standardisation and Follow-up/PoCs
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds 6G physical-layer and radio-access research — spectrum efficiency, massive MIMO, AI-native RAN — aimed at proof-of-concept systems and international standards contributions.
SME Collectives Sustainable Travel Behaviour (COVER)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch SME representative bodies to make their members' employee commuting greener.
Innovation Credit (Innovatiekrediet)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch firms developing high-risk new products or processes through repayable government loans covering project costs.
MIT R&D Cooperation Projects
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch SME teams doing joint R&D to develop or renew products, processes or services.
WBSO — R&D Tax Credit
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Offers Dutch companies and professionals tax credits to offset payroll costs for qualifying technical and research projects.
Trade Relations Programme (TRP) 2026
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Trade and Innovate NL network members to run export-support activities for Dutch firms.
Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
NIH · United States
Funds the development and hard technical validation that turns a working cancer research technology into one other laboratories will actually adopt.
Early-Stage Innovative Technology Development for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
NIH · United States
Funds proof-of-concept work on a genuinely new tool, assay, platform or instrument for characterising cancer cells or handling biospecimens.
Translational Neural Devices
NIH · United States
Funds a therapeutic or diagnostic device for the nervous system through prototyping, safety testing, regulatory clearance and a first small clinical study.
BRAIN Initiative: Brain Behavior Quantification and Synchronization- Next Generation Sensor Technology Development
NIH · United States
Funds next-generation sensors and bioelectronic devices that record behaviour in step with brain recordings, to build models of how the two connect.
BRAIN Initiative Connectivity across Scales (BRAIN CONNECTS): Specialized Projects for Scalable Technologies
NIH · United States
Funds technology anywhere in the connectomics pipeline — collection, reconstruction, analysis, dissemination — to make brain wiring diagrams faster and cheaper.
Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation Device Development for Mental Health Applications (R01)
NIH · United States
Funds a genuinely new brain stimulation device for mental health, or a hardware or software change that substantially improves an approved one.
Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation Device Development for Mental Health Applications (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the exploratory version of next-generation brain stimulation device work for mental health, with the same floor on how much novelty counts.
US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Broad Agency Announcement
AMC · United States
Funds Army research proposals across soldier feeding, protection, biomechanics and training technology on a rolling basis.
Defence Rapid Impact
UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds innovators from any country developing near-term defence technology prototypes at TRL 6 or 7 through the MOD Defence Innovation Fund.
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
NVIDIA · United States
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.
EIT Digital Open Innovation Factory
28DIGITAL · European Union
Funds European digital startups at TRL 4-5 seeking co-development with industry partners through EIT Digital's open innovation matching platform.
MIT.nano Industry Consortium / Foundry Access
MIT.nano · United States
Provides Massachusetts startup teams access to advanced prototyping and fabrication through MIT.nano collaboration.
Advanced Development and Validation of Emerging Technologies for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
NIH · United States
Funds further development and rigorous technical validation of a cancer research technology that has already cleared basic feasibility.
Early-Stage Innovative Technology Development for Basic and Clinical Cancer Research
NIH · United States
Funds early proof-of-concept work testing whether a new cancer research tool, assay, platform or instrument is technically feasible at all.
BRAIN Initiative: Development and Validation of Novel Tools and New Approaches for Neuroscience Research
NIH · United States
Funds building new tools to record, image or control brain cells and circuits, from first sketches to lab-ready instruments.
Open Call for Innovation
UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.