Photonics grants in the Netherlands

Open

Funds joint R&D projects between Taiwan and four European countries.

Open

Provides exploratory collaboration funding for Dutch teams linking academics and industry across photonics, climate, transport, and high-tech material systems.

Open

Funds Dutch venture and growth managers investing in clean transition, deep technology, life science, and digital ventures.

Open

Funds Dutch hardware and quantum development ideas through a call that connects research with scaling in semiconductor technologies.

Open

Offers Dutch small and medium businesses advisory vouchers and partner matching for high-tech collaborations in KET fields.

Open

Funds Dutch deep-technology start-ups and scale-ups in photonics, quantum, and nanotechnology with higher-risk capital.

Between cycles

Funds Dutch scale-ups with equity, mezzanine, and venture debt when conventional markets are constrained.

Between cycles

Funds Dutch applied technology research in universities and public institutes through collaborative calls.

Between cycles

Supports Dutch small and medium high-tech businesses partnering with researchers to build scalable hardware, quantum, and robotic technologies.

Open

Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.

Open

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

Pays two EU-Japan semiconductor projects between EUR 3 million and EUR 5 million each to develop advanced chip packaging and standardised chiplet interfaces.

Open

Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.

Open

Offers open access collaboration through Eureka Network Projects so small enterprises can join international innovation groups.

Scheduled

Funds six €3–5M research projects that make integrated photonic circuits more capable, compact and power-efficient.

Between cycles

Funds late stage deep tech start ups and small businesses with combined non dilutive and growth support across technology fields.

Between cycles

Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.

Between cycles

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

Closed

Funds around five projects, each worth EUR 4 to 6 million, to bring multimodal photonic sensors to market across healthcare, transport and industry.

Closed

Funds up to seven projects, worth EUR 5–6 million each, on multimodal immersion technology or the optics and photonics hardware behind virtual-world headsets and sensors.

Funds research on high-capacity, energy-efficient optical access networks and AI-managed optical architecture for the 6G transport layer.

Closed

Funds around two research projects, each worth up to EUR 5 million, to develop low-power advanced materials for photonic telecom chips.

Closed

Pays one project, led by a photonic-quantum-computing startup, EUR 10 million to build toward a 1,000-qubit photonic quantum computer by 2030 with a named end-user demonstration.

Closed

Funds R&D that turns existing food-safety science — molecular methods, genomics, photonics — into deployable tools against food fraud and safety risks.