Quantum grants in the Netherlands

Between cycles

Runs research teams and institutions for INCITE Allocation in artificial intelligence, quantum systems, and energy systems.

Between cycles

Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.

Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.

Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.

Awards up to $500 for sharp expert insight on tokenization, AI and quantum in finance.

Funds three-year PhD fellowships in quantum science and technology at Bavarian universities.

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Supports United Kingdom quantum biology research linking physics tools to biological discovery challenges.

Closed

Funds two early-career female researchers with a two-year quantum-science postdoc in Austria.

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Awards a $5 million prize purse to teams that design quantum algorithms and applications ready to deliver real-world impact once quantum hardware matures.

Closed

Funds quantum application teams bridging fundamental discovery to practical deployment-ready technologies.

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

Open

Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.

Open

Pays international research consortiums roughly €3-3.75 million to build cross-regional creative-industry and cultural-diplomacy partnerships between Europe and world regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to develop policy solutions for the sustainable, science-informed governance of shared global resources like the climate, biodiversity and outer space.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study how EU and Associated Country governments are reinventing internal operations and preparing their civil services for the future.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €5-5.75 million to document, map and help safeguard Europe's regional, minority and endangered languages.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to produce EU-specific evidence on the cost of child poverty and how to close gaps in disadvantaged children's access to early childhood education.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.

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Pays social finance intermediaries in the EU and ESF+ Associated Countries to cover due-diligence, legal and business-development costs on risk-capital investments under €1 million into social enterprises.

Open

Funds a Europe-wide support service that helps Widening-country research institutions build stronger management teams, systems and training.

Open

Funds one €7M action for research centres in widening regions to share expertise, build capacity and create lasting regional and European impact.

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Pays public authorities, social partners, universities and research bodies to improve cross-border cooperation and information on posted workers' rights.

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Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.