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 241-264 of 1,016 grants
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.
GENIUS NY 2024 Competition
GENIUS NY · United States
Invests up to $1 million in seed-stage uncrewed-systems and air-mobility startups.
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.
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.
Hydrogen powered aircraft concepts and key technologies integration and impact assessment
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds one team integrating and testing fully electric hydrogen fuel-cell and direct hydrogen combustion aircraft concepts, up to TRL 4.
Icing in the context of sustainable aviation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one project researching aircraft ice-detection and protection technology for the next generation of low-carbon aircraft.
iCreate Drone Challenge 2025
🇮🇳iCreate · India
Pays for India's fastest, strongest and most enduring drone prototypes with ₹2 crore.
iDEX DISC 12 (Re-Open) - IAF
🇮🇳iDEX · India
Funds Indian MSMEs, startups and individual innovators up to Rs 1.5 crore to solve an Indian Air Force helicopter landing-system challenge.
iDEX Prime Re Open
🇮🇳iDEX · India
Funds Indian MSMEs, startups and innovators up to Rs 10 crore to solve two Indian Air Force defence technology challenges under iDEX Prime.
Increased automation assistance for the pilot for ATM tasks
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research on single-pilot operations and cockpit automation that assists pilots with air traffic management tasks.
Industry Innovation Program
🇺🇸OCAST · United States
Funds Oklahoma-based private-sector companies conducting R&D in aerospace, defense, biotech, or energy with non-dilutive grants of $10,000 to $500,000.
Innovation Support to Operations Phase 3 — Next
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports fast delivery of United Kingdom military-ready solutions through research partnerships focused on operational outcomes.
Innovative air mobility and services for sustainable and smart urban, peri-urban transport – Societal Readiness pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two projects, worth up to EUR 5 million each, testing drone cargo delivery in cities and building the planning rules cities need to allow it.
Innovative light weight and reliable liquid hydrogen tank
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds a research project that develops and demonstrates a lightweight, reliable liquid hydrogen tank for hydrogen-powered aircraft.
Integration of the next generation aircraft for zero/low emission aviation
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research on integrating hydrogen, battery-electric and hybrid-electric aircraft into European air traffic management.
Investigate quantum sensing and computing applied to ATM
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research exploring quantum computing, post-quantum cryptography and quantum sensing for air traffic management.
J-Startup — 5th selection
🇯🇵METI · Japan
Supports Japanese startups through public-private matching for global market exposure and business development.
Key Technologies for Loads Control Lidar for Ultra-efficient SMR aircraft
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds one team maturing lidar sub-systems for a feed-forward gust load alleviation system on a next-generation single-aisle aircraft, up to TRL 5.
Lab Venture Challenge
🇺🇸CU Venture Partners · United States
Awards CU Boulder, Denver and Colorado Springs researchers up to $125,000 in non-dilutive proof-of-concept funding to push university inventions toward commercial ventures.
Map the Gap Phase 3
🇬🇧DASA · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom environmental monitoring innovation through gap mapping and advanced river and ecosystem projects.
Map the Gap Phase 3 — Riverine Relief
🇬🇧MoD · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom teams with aerial systems for terrain and river assessments that improve operational safety.