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 121-144 of 435 grants
Enhancing sustainability and resilience of agriculture, forestry and rural development through digital twins
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds teams building 3D digital-twin maps and VR platforms of rural villages to help farmers, foresters and local authorities plan for climate resilience.
EOSC Nodes with federating capabilities for the EOSC Federation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that build new EOSC nodes — thematic or regional entry points into Europe's federated open-science cloud.
EU Digital Twin Ocean: Contribution to the EU DTO core infrastructure through applications for sustainable ocean management
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds development of new digital-twin-of-the-ocean applications, using AI and real-time data, for ocean policy, business or management use cases across multiple sea basins.
EU-India International Collaboration
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds a coordination and support action to build structured EU-India cooperation on 6G research, connecting European and Indian industry, standards bodies and research programmes.
European Startup and Scaleup Hubs pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a pan-European network of 10-18 startup and scaleup hubs that can pass on up to EUR 60,000 per deep-tech startup for cross-border scaling support.
Facilitated cooperation for AI in Science
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Paid one European consortium EUR 3 million to draft a strategic research agenda for AI in science and test the case for a future EU AI Research Council.
FAIR Integration for Enhanced Research Data in the EOSC ecosystem and beyond
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds tools and services that make research data FAIR-by-design and integrate it across the EOSC ecosystem.
Fast-track Extending U-space eco-system
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds innovation projects building 5G-based communication, navigation and surveillance capabilities for drones and vertiports.
Fast-track U3 U-space advanced services and CNS capabilities
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds innovation projects building advanced drone traffic-management services for shared airspace with crewed aircraft.
Federated CCAM data exchange platform (CCAM Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one project that builds a shared data-sharing platform for connected and automated driving research and testing.
Fundamental research for other topics
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds curiosity-driven, TRL0 fundamental research on air traffic management ideas outside the other listed priorities.
GenAI4EU: Generative AI for Biomedical Research
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds consortia that build or adapt generative AI models on large-scale multimodal health data and prove their value with at least two real biomedical use cases.
GenAI4EU: Generative AI for Virtual Worlds: Advanced technologies for better performance and hyper personalised and immersive experience (IA) (AI/Data/Robotics & Virtual Worlds Partnerships)
🇮🇸European Commission · European Union
Funds five projects, worth EUR 4–5 million each, that use generative AI to create more realistic virtual-world characters and environments or build smart digital assistants for safe navigation.
Generative AI for Cybersecurity applications
🇪🇺ECCC · European Union
Funds generative-AI tools that detect and respond to cyberattacks, or that automate compliance with EU cybersecurity law.
Generative-AI based Agents to Revolutionize Medical Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research teams building interactive generative-AI agents that integrate medical imaging and health data to improve cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Hybrid AI-Control Framework for a next-generation grid-scale energy storage and system integration
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds development of a hybrid AI-control and digital-twin system for proactive, market-integrated grid-scale energy storage.
Increased automation assistance for the pilot for ATM tasks
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research on single-pilot operations and cockpit automation that assists pilots with air traffic management tasks.
Innovation Study Tours 2026
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Pays organisations up to EUR 25,000 to design and run a short innovation study-tour programme.
Innovative solutions for a generative AI-powered digital spine of the EU energy system
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that build and pilot a generative-AI-powered digital spine for planning, operating and decarbonising the EU energy system.
Innovative, AI-based solutions for urban planning and management
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AI-based Digital Twin models for urban planning, developed jointly by at least three cities in different EU countries.
Integration of human driving behaviour in the validation of CCAM systems (CCAM Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one project that builds validated models of human driving behaviour for testing self-driving vehicle safety in simulation.
Large-scale pilots for supply end-to-end infrastructures integrating device, network computing and communication capabilities for Telco Edge Cloud deployments, as a basis for Connected Collaborative Computing Networks (3C networks) (RIA)
🇮🇸European Commission · European Union
Funds one large-scale pilot up to EUR 75 million to build and test an open, multi-vendor telco edge cloud infrastructure across Europe.
Low power Edge AI Chips
🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union
Funds two teams prototyping ultra-low-power edge AI chip designs, tested at TRL 6-7 for real-time on-device inference in battery-powered devices.
Next generation ATS platform for airport operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds industrial research building AI-enabled, cyber-resilient next-generation airport air traffic control platforms.