Aerospace grants
Explore grants for aerospace companies. This directory brings together funding for new aircraft, propulsion systems, avionics, uncrewed systems and advanced air mobility, from national aviation and defense agencies, research councils and industry programs, alongside grants open to companies in any sector.
Showing 217-240 of 1,018 grants
Demonstration of an Optimized System Platform for Ultra-efficient SMR Aircraft
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds an innovation project that develops and demonstrates an optimised systems platform for an ultra-efficient short-to-medium-range aircraft.
Demonstration of an Ultra-Efficient Rear Fuselage and Empennage and Its Integrated Industrial System enabling EIS2035 for the SMR Aircraft
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds an innovation project that develops and demonstrates an ultra-efficient rear fuselage and empennage, plus its production system, for an SMR aircraft.
Demonstration of cabin acoustic optimization technology
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds one team demonstrating lightweight cabin noise-mitigation technology for a hybrid-electric regional aircraft, up to TRL 5.
Demonstration of low power Ice Protection System technology
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds one team demonstrating a lightweight, low-power ice protection system for the wing and tail of a hybrid-electric regional aircraft, up to TRL 5.
Digital flight rules
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research designing a new digital flight-rules concept for certified crewed and uncrewed aircraft.
Dual-use Aviation Systems and Autonomy
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK organisations up to £1.25 million to build aviation tech for both civil and military use.
Early Independence: Ernest Rutherford Fellowships 2026
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for early-career researchers building an independent STFC research niche.
Enhanced pilot environment
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds next-generation combat cockpit technology, from wearable displays to AI-assisted decision support for pilots.
Eureka Lightweighting Call — Walloon Partner Share
🇧🇪SPW Recherche · Belgium
Funds Walloon companies in international collaborative research developing innovative lightweighting technologies.
European Defence Fund — Work Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds collaborative defense research across aerospace, cyber, robotics, AI, and space.
Fast-track Enabling innovative air mobility (IAM) / Vertical take-off and landing capable aircraft (VCA) (crewed and uncrewed) operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds innovation projects on vertiport management, automated flight and IFR procedures for crewed and uncrewed air taxis.
Fast-track Extending U-space eco-system
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds innovation projects building 5G-based communication, navigation and surveillance capabilities for drones and vertiports.
Fast-track U3 U-space advanced services and CNS capabilities
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds innovation projects building advanced drone traffic-management services for shared airspace with crewed aircraft.
Fundamental research for other topics
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds curiosity-driven, TRL0 fundamental research on air traffic management ideas outside the other listed priorities.
Future multirole light aircraft
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to research a low-cost, single-engine light aircraft for close air support and counter-drone roles.
GENIUS NY 2024 Competition
GENIUS NY · United States
Invests up to $1 million in seed-stage uncrewed-systems and air-mobility startups.
Go Make 2027: Advanced Carbon Materials with ExxonMobil
Greentown Labs · United States
Runs a climatetech accelerator that pairs carbon-materials startups with ExxonMobil for validation and collaboration, including a needs-based stipend to support participation.
Grand Challenge on Quantum Sensors for Inertial Navigation
🇳🇴EuroHPC JU · European Union
Funds a coordination action that benchmarks quantum-sensor navigation technology and builds an investment-ready roadmap for EIB follow-on funding.
Ground Demonstration of Hybrid-Electric Propulsion Architectures for the Ultra-efficient SMR aircraft
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds an innovation project that ground-demonstrates hybrid-electric propulsion architectures for an ultra-efficient SMR aircraft.
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge — 12th
🇫🇷Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Offers deep-tech startup challengers equity-free seed support, mentorship, and investor exposure across sectors and global markets.
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge (9th Edition)
Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.
High-end endo-atmospheric interception
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one defence consortium EUR 100 million to mature interceptor technology against hypersonic and ballistic missile threats, up to Technology Readiness Level 6.
Highly automated ATM for all airspace users
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research on detect-and-avoid sensors, drone integration, space-launch coordination and robust satellite navigation for ATM.
Hill Prizes
🇺🇸LH Philanthropies · United States
Awards Texas researchers and innovators $500,000 in non-dilutive funding for their work.