AI grants in Switzerland
Explore AI grants for companies in Switzerland. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from Swiss innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Switzerland, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in Switzerland come first.
Showing 1-24 of 435 grants
SNSF Project Funding
🇨🇭SNSF · Switzerland
Funds Swiss individual and team science projects across strategic research areas.
An AI Foundation Toxicology Model and Framework to Support Waiving a Second Species in Drug Safety Studies
🇨🇦IHI JU · European Union
Funds development of an AI toxicology model that lets drug developers waive costly second-species animal safety testing.
BRIDGE Proof of Concept
🇨🇭SNSF · Switzerland
Funds young Swiss researchers moving research into practical demonstrations to strengthen real-world implementation.
Digital Europe Programme Swiss Participant Co-funding
🇨🇭SERI · Switzerland
Funds Swiss organisations joining Digital Europe projects through European Commission funding and possible SERI co-funding.
Venture Kick — Stage 2
🇨🇭Venture Kick · Switzerland
Funds Venture Kick alumni to continue development with growth support before next-stage financing opportunities.
Venture Kick — Stage 3
🇨🇭Venture Kick · Switzerland
Funds Venture Kick scale-up companies with bridge capital and follow-on equity support toward expansion.
Innovation Project with Implementation Partner
🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland
Supports Swiss innovation by co-funding projects between research institutions and implementation partners.
BRIDGE Discovery
🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland
Funds experienced Swiss researchers conducting applied research with high translational potential for industry adoption.
Innovation Project without Implementation Partner
🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland
Funds Swiss researchers developing feasibility studies, prototypes, and testing facilities before engaging an industry partner.
SPRIND Equity Investments & Convertible Loans
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Invests in German deep-tech ventures through shared-equity support with private co-financing and downside risk share.
Start-up Core Coaching
🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland
Provides Switzerland innovators with hands-on guidance for startup coaching and commercialization preparation and commercialization planning.
Venture Kick — Stage 1
🇨🇭Venture Kick · Switzerland
Funds Swiss university spinout founders in an early pre-seed stage with a jury reviewed non-dilutive grant path.
BRIDGE Discovery — 10th
🇨🇭SNSF · Switzerland
Funds high-potential Swiss researchers translating ideas into practical demonstrations to strengthen real-world implementation.
SNSF Starting Grants
🇨🇭SNSF · Switzerland
Funds early-career Swiss investigators building independent research groups through sustained support.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.
Horizon Cyber: Robust & Private AI Systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds EU teams hardening AI systems against adversarial attacks and building privacy-preserving AI for sensitive government and enterprise use.
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.
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.
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.
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
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.