AI grants in Spain
Explore AI grants for companies in Spain. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from Spanish innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in Spain, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in Spain come first.
Showing 265-288 of 556 grants
Ramón y Cajal Program (RYC)
🇪🇸AEI · Spain
Funds long-term postdoctoral research contracts in Spain under a competitive talent program.
ICEX Next
🇪🇸ICEX · Spain
Supports Spanish small businesses and startups with export-ready mentoring and internationalization grants.
Proyectos «Europa Excelencia»
🇪🇸AEI · Spain
Funds frontier research projects in Spain with positive European Research Council evaluations.
Rising UP in Spain 2026
🇪🇸ICEX · Spain
Backs startups setting up and scaling their business in Spain.
Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence and María de Maeztu Units of Excellence (Centros de Excelencia Severo Ochoa y Unidades María de Maeztu)
🇪🇸AEI · Spain
Supports elite Spanish centres and units through long-term accreditation-linked scientific investment.
Torres Quevedo Program
🇪🇸MICINN · Spain
Funds Spanish companies hiring a PhD researcher to lead an in-house R&D project.
ATRAE Program — Established Talent Recruitment (Incorporación de talento consolidado)
🇪🇸AEI · Spain
Funds Spanish public research entities to recruit experienced international principal investigators and support their initial research activity.
Empowering youth in the EU Outermost Regions – YOUTH 4 OUTERMOST REGIONS (#YOUTH4ORS)
🇫🇷European Commission · European Union
Funds one organisation to run youth-led community and entrepreneurship actions across the EU's Outermost Regions.
Kit Digital — Segment I Digitalization Aid
🇪🇸Red.es · Spain
Pays Spanish small businesses up to 12,000 euro to adopt digital tools.
ENISA Financing Lines (Líneas de Financiación)
🇪🇸ENISA · Spain
Funds participative subordinated loans in Spain for startups and small companies through ENISA's financing support without collateral.
Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and App Lab
Arduino · Global / Multinational
Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.
2026 Global Quantum + AI Challenge
TQI · Global / Multinational
Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Pays startups, research teams and enterprises a share of $200,000 in prizes for solutions that turn quantum computing research into deployable industrial pilots across five sectors.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge 2026
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.
Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
NIST · United States
Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
NVIDIA · United States
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.
NIA R01: Drug Repositioning and Combination Therapy for Alzheimer's Disease
NIA · United States
Funds researchers combining computational and experimental approaches to test repositioned drugs for Alzheimer's disease treatment through NIH R01 grants.
Revision Applications for Validation of Biomarker Assays Developed Through NIH-Supported Research Grants
NIH · United States
Funds an addition to an existing NIH grant, to take a cancer biomarker assay from working in the lab to working in the clinic.
Advanced Development of Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management
NIH · United States
Funds the enhancement of a cancer informatics tool that has cleared prototyping, shows real promise, and has not yet been widely adopted.
Model-to-Clinic (M2C) for Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data (PRIMED-AI)
NIH · United States
Funds the move of an imaging-centred multimodal AI tool from a trained and tested prototype towards real clinical use, as regulated device software.
PRIMED-AI: Data-to-Model Academic-Industrial Partnerships (D2M-AIP) for Precision Medicine with AI: Integrating Imaging with Multimodal Data
NIH · United States
Funds a company and an academic team to build and test an imaging-centred multimodal AI decision tool, developed as software that is a medical device.
Sustained Support for Informatics Technologies for Cancer Research and Management
NIH · United States
Funds the running costs and continued relevance of a cancer informatics tool that researchers already depend on.
GREGoRi Innovation Projects
NIH · United States
Funds a genuinely new experimental or computational approach to finding the cause of a rare genetic disorder, where the current state of the art falls short.
ARC Prize 2026
ARC Prize · United States
Awards $2M in prizes across three tracks for open-source AI research advancing progress toward AGI.