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 560 grants
CDTI Innovation Projects (PID)
🇪🇸CDTI · Spain
Funds Spanish innovation projects through technology development grants and enterprise support.
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.
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.
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.
Developing novel theory and methods for understanding the genetic architecture of complex human traits (R01)
NIH · United States
Funds theory and method development on how genetic and non-genetic factors together produce variation in complex traits, tested against large existing datasets.
Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R01)
NIH · United States
Funds new analysis of clinical, genomic, environmental and registry data that already exists, to sharpen who is at risk of cancer and what happens to them.
Secondary Analysis and Integration of Existing Data to Elucidate Cancer Risk and Related Outcomes (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the same reanalysis of already-collected cancer data on a smaller, exploratory footing, for teams that do not need a full research project award.
Academic-Industrial Partnerships (AIP) to Translate and Validate In Vivo Imaging Systems
NIH · United States
Funds a company and an academic group working as one team to turn an imaging, spectroscopy or data-science advance into something usable in the clinic.
Developing novel theory and methods for understanding the genetic architecture of complex human traits (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds the exploratory version of the same theory-and-methods work on complex trait variation, for ideas that need testing before a larger project is justified.
Personal Health Informatics for Delivering Actionable Insights to Individuals
NIH · United States
Funds informatics tools that take a person's own health data and hand back a risk assessment they can understand and do something about.
Development and Validation of Novel Tools to Probe Cell-Specific and Circuit-Specific Processes in the Brain
BRAIN Initiative · United States
Funds new methods to study brain cells and circuits with tools for deeper neural research.
NIDA Animal Genomics Program
NIH · United States
Funds genomic work in animals on what makes addiction start, escalate, persist and relapse — any kind of genetic variant.
New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R01)
NIH · United States
Funds new or newly applied ways to measure brain activity, connectivity or genomics across the lifespan, to predict what happens later.
New Approaches for Measuring Brain Changes Across Longer Timespans (R21)
NIH · United States
Funds highly novel approaches to measuring brain activity, connectivity or genomics repeatedly across the lifespan, on an exploratory footing.
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.