Semiconductors grants in the United Kingdom

Discontinued

Funds United Kingdom technology ventures across broad sectors through competitive grants for deep technology and innovation.

Open

Funds five lump-sum grants, each €3-4M, for tools that harden chip design or software supply chains against tampering, backdoors, and compromised dependencies.

Open

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

Pays two EU-Japan semiconductor projects between EUR 3 million and EUR 5 million each to develop advanced chip packaging and standardised chiplet interfaces.

Pays one European federation of vocational-training providers up to EUR 10 million to build shared semiconductor micro-credentials and reskilling programmes.

Pays up to two academic consortia between EUR 1 million and EUR 10 million each to build semiconductor 'Hubs of Excellence' offering industry-aligned degree programmes.

Pays one consortium up to EUR 15 million to run a Europe-wide chip-design skills programme, funding at least 1,000 student tape-outs over four years.

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.

Pays one consortium up to EUR 70 million to build a common EU platform for evaluating and deploying European AI chips and racks.

Open

Offers open access collaboration through Eureka Network Projects so small enterprises can join international innovation groups.

Open

Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.

Open

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

Scheduled

Funds six €3–5M research projects that make integrated photonic circuits more capable, compact and power-efficient.

Scheduled

Funds €6M consortia that open Europe’s best research infrastructures to challenge-driven users and EU priorities.

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

Supports international consortia so small companies can turn joint innovation into export-ready products.

Closed

Pays up to 25 small consortia EUR 200,000 each to test the commercial exploitation potential of results that already came out of earlier Horizon Europe or Horizon 2020 Cluster 4 projects.

Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.

Funds one team building an open AI-assisted platform, including generative AI, that automates chip and software-defined-vehicle engineering tasks across design, deployment and maintenance.

Closed

Funds a complete tunable 6G radio front-end module for 7–15 GHz, combining European microelectronics with low-energy operation.

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.