AI grants in the United Kingdom
Explore AI grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for machine learning, foundation models, AI infrastructure and applied AI from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at AI in the United Kingdom come first.
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Parkwalk EIS University Funds
🇬🇧Parkwalk Advisors · United Kingdom
Supports Parkwalk EIS and university founders with strategic innovation funds for early ventures.
Innovate UK Smart Grants
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds United Kingdom technology ventures across broad sectors through competitive grants for deep technology and innovation.
Commercial POC Fund
🇬🇧UCLB · United Kingdom
Offers UCL teams access to support that turns campus proof-of-concept work into licensable and investable innovation.
Social Ventures POC Fund
🇬🇧UCLB · United Kingdom
Supports UCL social ventures with proof-of-concept guidance that helps promising ideas become operational solutions.
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.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
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.
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
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.
Horizon Border Security: Accessible Travel Facilitation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M border-crossing tech projects, run with Border or Coast Guard Authorities, built for travelers with disabilities or low digital skills.
RAISE Doctoral Networks for AI in Science (RAISE pilot)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds doctoral networks whose research depends on building new AI tools that push forward a specific scientific discipline, selected through the main MSCA Doctoral Networks call.
Horizon Energy: AI Foundation Models for Grid Data
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €10M projects that pool energy data and train AI foundation models on it, tested in lab demonstrators and real-life pilots.
Quantum Machine Learning
🇪🇺EuroHPC JU · European Union
Funds research building and benchmarking quantum-enhanced machine-learning methods for real-world, data-heavy problems.
ESA BIC — Incubation
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Provides equity-free incubation funding and business support for space-related startups across Europe.
Eureka Network Projects — Permanent
EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Offers open access collaboration through Eureka Network Projects so small enterprises can join international innovation groups.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.