Semiconductors grants in the United Kingdom

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Pays one European consortium EUR 1 million to coordinate the 2D-materials research community, including Graphene Flagship projects, and keep a live map of European funding in the field.

Funds around twelve open-topic chip Innovation Action projects — pilot lines, test beds, demonstrators or market-replication pilots — anywhere across the Chips JU's technology and application roadmap.

Funds around ten early-stage chip research projects, TRL 3-4, that develop and lab-test innovative technologies against the Chips JU's roadmap of key application areas.

Pays a coordination action that connects EU and Japanese semiconductor researchers and companies to plan joint chip R&I and secure the chip supply chain.

Funds around five chip Innovation Action projects at TRL 5-8 — pilot lines, full-scale test zones or new frameworks used in real products — anywhere on the Chips JU's 2026 roadmap.

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Funds industrial consortia that develop more sustainable, cost-effective ways to extract, process or refine raw materials used in semiconductor manufacturing.

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Pays one coordination project to map semiconductor cooperation opportunities with countries such as Japan, Korea and the United States for the Commission.

Funds two teams prototyping ultra-low-power edge AI chip designs, tested at TRL 6-7 for real-time on-device inference in battery-powered devices.

Funds up to four consortia building or improving open-source chip-design (EDA) tools for digital, analogue and mixed-signal design, released under an open-source licence.

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Funds consortiums including a silicon wafer manufacturer to develop cheaper, lower-energy ways to grow silicon ingots and wafers for solar cells.

Funds around eight early-stage chip research projects, TRL 3-4, that develop and lab-test innovative technologies against the Chips JU's 2026 roadmap.

Funds up to two teams building a high-performance RISC-V automotive hardware platform — processors, AI accelerators and the software tool-chain — for autonomous driving.

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Pays one European consortium EUR 1 million to map semiconductor regional clusters, share best practice on permitting and infrastructure, and build an online platform connecting them.

Closed

Funds one coordination project up to EUR 1 million to build a support network and information hub for Europe's fabless semiconductor start-ups and SMEs.

Open

Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.

Open

Funding for entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training and venture creation.

Open

Supports young entrepreneurs in Wales with seed assistance and mentoring for first business launch.

Open

Apply for time on Europe's most powerful supercomputers. No cash — compute.

Open

Joint UK-Brazil research with São Paulo-based researchers.

Open

Joint UK-Luxembourg collaborative research applications through participating councils.

Open

Funding for Norway-based project co-leads in UK-led research applications.

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Flexible funding for strategic engineering and physical sciences research programmes.

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Funds Northern Ireland businesses developing products, processes, or services through Invest NI R&D grants.

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Part-funded innovation projects between businesses and academic partners.