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Semiconductors grants in the United Kingdom

Explore Semiconductors grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for chip design, fabrication, packaging, photonic and power electronics 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 Semiconductors in the United Kingdom come first.

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XT
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AI:360 Global Startup Competition 2026

XTC · United States

Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.

AIEnergy Tech+6
GS
Closed

DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026

Global Startup EXPO · Japan

Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.

AIRobotics+5
¥10M
GS
Closed

DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026

Global Startup EXPO · Japan

Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.

AIRobotics+6
¥10M
National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan logo
Closed

IC Taiwan Grand Challenge

NSTC Taiwan · Taiwan

Awards a $30,000 cash prize to startups collaborating with Taiwan's chip industry.

SemiconductorsHardware
$30K
Japan Science and Technology Agency logo
Closed

JST GSC Initiative: International Research Program

JST · Japan

Funds researchers at companies including startups doing R&D aimed at commercialization under JST's Global Startup Campus initiative.

AIBiotech+7
MS
Closed

K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC)

MSS · South Korea

Runs a nine-month, government-backed accelerator that helps foreign-founded startups enter and scale in Korea, with prize money for the top 20 teams and further commercialisation grants for the top 8.

Advanced ManufacturingSemiconductors+4
NVIDIA Corporation logo
Closed

NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship

NVIDIA · United States

Supports doctoral students in computing, robotics, and intelligent systems by pairing university awards with industry mentorship.

AIRobotics+2
$60K
Mubadala Investment Company logo
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UAE Mubadala Investment Strategic / Energy / Tech Capital

Mubadala · United Arab Emirates

Offers United Arab Emirates investors and strategic startups with growth capital and partnership options across technology and energy.

AIEnergy Tech+3
$10M – $1B
ER
Open

ERC Proof of Concept Grants

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

€150KSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon EIE: Technology Transfer Offices

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.

€1MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Creative alliances: Fostering global partnerships in cultural policies and CCI innovation

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays international research consortiums roughly €3-3.75 million to build cross-regional creative-industry and cultural-diplomacy partnerships between Europe and world regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.

€3M – €3.8MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Governing global commons sustainably

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to develop policy solutions for the sustainable, science-informed governance of shared global resources like the climate, biodiversity and outer space.

€3.5M – €4MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Government in transition — how governments change the way they work and prepare the civil service for the future

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study how EU and Associated Country governments are reinventing internal operations and preparing their civil services for the future.

€3.5M – €4MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Making Europe a global magnet for talent — attracting and retaining non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.

€3M – €3.3MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Safeguarding linguistic diversity in Europe

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €5-5.75 million to document, map and help safeguard Europe's regional, minority and endangered languages.

€5M – €5.8MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Tackling child poverty and ensuring disadvantaged children's access to Early Childhood Education and Care

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to produce EU-specific evidence on the cost of child poverty and how to close gaps in disadvantaged children's access to early childhood education.

€3M – €4MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Tackling gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.

€3.5M – €4MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Research Management Facility

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds a Europe-wide support service that helps Widening-country research institutions build stronger management teams, systems and training.

€7MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

Horizon Widening: Teaming CoE Synergies

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds one €7M action for research centres in widening regions to share expertise, build capacity and create lasting regional and European impact.

€7MSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

MSCA Doctoral Networks 2026

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.

Nov'26
EUREKA Network logo
Open

5th Innowwide Call for Market Feasibility Projects — Autumn 2026

🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Pays SMEs a fixed EUR60,000 grant to run a six-month market feasibility project testing whether their innovation can be commercialised in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania.

€60KDec'26
European Institute of Innovation and Technology logo
Open

European Prize for Women Innovators

🇪🇺EIT · European Union

Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.

€20K – €100KDec'26
European Commission logo
Open

Pillar II: Talent ecosystems for attractive early research careers

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds cross-sector consortia building 'talent ecosystems' that connect researcher training with employer needs to make early research careers more attractive.

€2M – €4MMar'27
European Commission logo
Open

Pillar III: Promoting public engagement in R&I and scientific literacy

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds consortia running youth science-engagement programmes or researcher-public dialogue events under one of two chosen tracks to boost trust in science.

€1MMar'27

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