Defense grants in the United Kingdom

Open

Funds one €5M project building forensic, training and privacy-safe data-sharing tools so European police and NGOs can find missing people and crack cold cases.

Open

Funds one €5.83M project where public security procurers and practitioners jointly commission and test rival prototypes through a procurement tender.

Open

Zero-equity co-funding for satellite services that detect and trace environmental crime.

Scheduled

Funds trustworthy AI for real-time cyber threat detection, adaptive civil-security defence and stronger Security Operation Centres.

Scheduled

Funds field-ready solutions that improve responder safety, mobility and decisions in hazardous environments.

Scheduled

Funds buyer-led pre-commercial procurement that helps civil-security innovators reach operational public markets.

Scheduled

Funds evidence, harm-reduction practice and civil-security tools to address synthetic drugs, violence and trafficking across Europe.

Scheduled

Funds creative civil-security solutions for EU external borders that improve management while protecting fundamental rights and EU values.

Scheduled

Funds two €3M projects that give police and civil-society practitioners better tools, evidence and training to prevent and deter crime.

Scheduled

Funds two €1M preparatory projects that turn shared security needs into a credible future pre-commercial procurement.

Scheduled

Funds four €3.5M projects that detect dangerous, illicit and smuggled goods in cargo while keeping trade moving.

Scheduled

Funds civil-security tools that expose malicious OSINT risks and protect critical infrastructure continuity.

Scheduled

Funds trustworthy crisis intelligence that turns near-real-time data into faster, more inclusive disaster decisions.

Between cycles

Supports HMGCC Accelerate through a six week HMGCC and Plexal engineering programme for hardware and software security firms.

Between cycles

Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.

Between cycles

Supports early-stage German innovators through a pilot challenge route with mentoring and development funding.

Closed

Funds autonomous robots and remote-sensing tools that let first responders search, assess and support disaster zones made too dangerous by conflict.

Closed

Funds tools that help customs authorities detect illegal or dangerous goods moving through the EU's supply chains without slowing legitimate trade.

Closed

Funds projects that raise citizens' disaster-risk awareness or build stronger links between researchers and local authorities on disaster preparedness.

Closed

Funds a group of public procurers to jointly commission and test at least two competing prototypes of a new civil-security technology.

Closed

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.

Closed

Funds tools and training curricula that make humanitarian demining safer and teach civilians how to avoid unexploded ordnance.

Closed

Funds cross-border information-sharing and intelligence tools that help police forces detect and dismantle organised crime networks.

Closed

Funds monitoring, risk-assessment and stress-testing tools that help critical-infrastructure operators withstand and recover from major disruptions.