Quantum grants in the United Kingdom

Discontinued

Offers UCL teams access to support that turns campus proof-of-concept work into licensable and investable innovation.

Discontinued

Supports United Kingdom university and deep tech teams by bridging research outputs to follow-on funding.

Open

Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.

Backs quantum navigation systems for use where GPS signals are jammed or denied.

Funds a startup-led consortium building a scalable photonic quantum computing platform toward 1,000 qubits by 2030.

Open

Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.

Funds research building and benchmarking quantum-enhanced machine-learning methods for real-world, data-heavy problems.

Open

Supports internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers placed in Israeli institutions to build independent research careers through EU mobility fellowships.

Scheduled

Funds one €4M coordination action to spot future digital technologies and connect the people who can bring them into use.

Scheduled

Funds foundational quantum-cryptography research for secure future hybrid networks.

Between cycles

Funds late stage deep tech start ups and small businesses with combined non dilutive and growth support across technology fields.

Between cycles

Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.

Between cycles

Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.

Between cycles

Funds early-stage deep tech startups developing solutions at TRL 4-5 in collaboration with industry partners through a 4-month co-creation programme.

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

Runs themed competitions in which teams compete over several stages to solve one defined technical problem.

Between cycles

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

Pays one consortium EUR 500,000 to 1 million to build an open benchmarking framework for hybrid quantum-classical supercomputing systems.

Closed

Funds one coordination project up to EUR 4.5 million to run Europe's Quantum Technologies Flagship, tracking global progress and coordinating national quantum strategies.

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

Pays three European teams up to EUR 500,000 each to produce investment-ready technical and financial roadmaps for quantum navigation sensors, as a readiness study ahead of separate EIB investment.

Funds research exploring quantum computing, post-quantum cryptography and quantum sensing for air traffic management.

Closed

Pays one project, led by a photonic-quantum-computing startup, EUR 10 million to build toward a 1,000-qubit photonic quantum computer by 2030 with a named end-user demonstration.

Closed

Funds two projects, worth up to EUR 5 million each, to build a hardware-agnostic software stack that lets the same quantum applications run across different quantum computers.