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.
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.
EIC Pathfinder Challenges
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.
BASS Kick-start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled applications in agriculture, climate monitoring, and transport innovation.
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.
BASS — Wildfires
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds space-enabled wildfire monitoring programs improving response, prediction, and ecosystem safety.
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.
Innowwide — Next
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Offers market-feasibility support for small companies exploring non-European markets through Europe-wide innovation networks.
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.
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships — ISERD)
🇪🇺ISERD · Israel
Supports internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers placed in Israeli institutions to build independent research careers through EU mobility fellowships.
The Audacious Project
🇺🇸Audacious Project · United States
Offers The Audacious Project invitation-only multi-issue funding for social-impact ideas with broad partner backing.
Human-AI Collaboration for Future Manufacturing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €4–6M projects that make human-AI collaboration more inclusive, adaptable and effective on the factory floor.
3C Telco-Edge-Cloud Demand Pilots
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €19M pilots that put secure 3C telco-edge-cloud networks to work in mobility and another strategic vertical.
AI Data Centres: Efficient Cooling, Power and Operations
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €10M projects that cut the energy and climate footprint of AI data centres through better cooling, power and operations.
AI Robotics Integration for Industry
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds an €18M pilot to make AI-driven industrial robots easier to integrate, safer to deploy and reusable across factories.
Apply AI Challenge Innovation Booster
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €14M challenge programmes that turn advanced AI into solutions for healthcare, manufacturing or autonomous driving.