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.
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Artistic intelligence — harnessing the power of the arts for complex challenges, soft skills and innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €4.5-5 million to study and pilot art-science-technology collaborations that boost innovation, soft skills and human-centred technology.
Horizon Ocean Mission: Regional Digital Twin
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one project per sea basin that plugs local ocean data into the EU's shared Digital Twin Ocean platform, for marine policy and Blue Economy use.
Horizon Soil Mission: AI Decision Tools for Soil Management
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €9M project turning long-term field-trial data into AI decision-support tools for farmers, advisors and land managers.
EUDIS Non-Thematic SME Open Call
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Backs defense innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations across EU member states.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – organisation of a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build and run a shared testing environment where other teams' AI-and-robot tactical-awareness research gets evaluated.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research teams up to EUR 4.6 million each to develop AI-and-robot tactical threat detection and test it in a shared technological challenge.
Enhanced cognitive EW system with intelligent RESM CESM signal analysis
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to build an AI-driven electronic-warfare system that can detect and respond to threats faster than a human operator.
Modelling & simulation supported AI framework for military decision-making and training
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to EUR 8 million per proposal to build an AI framework for military simulation, war-gaming and decision-making training.
Multidomain sensors demonstrator and test
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build a radar demonstrator that tracks hypersonic threats and anti-drone targets using AI-assisted signal processing.
Apply AI: Piloting AI-based image screening in medical centres
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds hospital consortia to pilot cloud-based AI systems that read medical scans for cancer and cardiovascular screening, with clinicians validating every result.
Digital Europe — Advanced Digital Skills (10th batch)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds European entities expanding advanced digital skills with AI and cybersecurity programs.
Digital Europe Programme – AI Data Call (DIGITAL-2026-AI-DATA-10)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds EU consortia improving the availability, quality and use of AI-relevant data infrastructure under the Digital Europe Programme.
Digital solutions for regulatory compliance through data
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds pilot projects that automate EU regulatory reporting, like environmental filings or company data, using privacy-preserving data-sharing technology.
Horizon CCAM: Generative AI for Perception & Decision-Making
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6.5M projects using generative AI to sharpen real-time perception and decision-making for automated vehicles.
Horizon Mobility: AI for Transport Disruption Resilience
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M projects that give transport operators AI tools to predict service disruptions and cut passenger delay across real multimodal corridors.
ERC Starting Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds early-career researchers building an independent research team and pursuing frontier research through an ERC Starting Grant hosted at a public or private research organisation.
SPRIND Recoding Medicine Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds teams that curate a valuable health dataset and prove its worth with a working AI application.
SPRIND Next Frontier Robotics Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds European teams building complete multi-purpose robots or the breakthrough hardware inside them.
AI chip demonstrators for EU compute infrastructure
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Pays up to ten European chip companies between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million each to build working AI chip prototypes and get them tested on a shared EU evaluation platform.
AI compute evaluation and deployment platform for EU infrastructure
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Pays one consortium up to EUR 70 million to build a common EU platform for evaluating and deploying European AI chips and racks.
EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DeepRAP — Deep Reasoning, Abstraction and Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports cognitive AI development focused on trustworthy deep reasoning, abstraction, and planning capabilities.
DeepRAP: Deep Reasoning, Abstraction & Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI Systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research consortia building trustworthy cognitive AI systems that go beyond today's deep learning at reasoning, abstraction and long-term planning.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Funds breakthrough research teams tackling bold technology questions from concept through proof-of-concept under the European Innovation Council framework.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.