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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.

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Showing 289-312 of 1,016 grants

S3
Closed

Transformation to trajectory-based operations

🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union

Funds industrial research building the flight-planning and network systems needed for trajectory-based air traffic operations.

AerospaceMobility+1
€4M – €10M
S3
Closed

Transition towards high performance of air-ground connectivity (multilink)

🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union

Funds industrial research on next-generation air-ground datalinks, digital voice and using aircraft as weather sensors.

AerospaceCybersecurity+1
€2M – €7M
Washington Department of Revenue logo
Closed

Washington Aerospace Tax Incentives

🇺🇸WA DOR · United States

Funds Washington aerospace suppliers through preferential tax frameworks including business tax and sales relief.

AerospaceAdvanced Manufacturing
XPRIZE Foundation logo
Closed

XPRIZE Wildfire — Finals Phase

XPRIZE · United States

Funds teams building autonomous wildfire sensing and suppression systems for faster emergency response.

AerospaceRobotics+2
$3.5M
NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate — Flight Opportunities logo
Discontinued

NASA TechFlights

🇺🇸NASA Flight Opportunities · United States

Funds U.S.-based industry, academia, and non-profit organizations flight-testing space technologies on commercial suborbital and orbital vehicles.

SpaceHardware+3
Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity logo
Discontinued

IARPA LocUS — ETA OTA

🇺🇸IARPA · United States

Funds United States researchers mapping video origin from combined visual and audio clues when metadata is absent.

AIDefense+1
Michigan Economic Development Corporation logo
Discontinued

International Landing Zone RFP

🇺🇸MEDC · United States

Supports international aerospace and defense firms in Michigan through local office and market-entry backing.

DefenseAerospace
NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate logo
Discontinued

NASA SBIR Ignite Phase II

🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States

Funds U.S. small businesses developing commercialization-focused deep-tech through NASA SBIR Ignite Phase II awards of up to $850,000.

AerospaceClimate Tech+2
$850K
National Security Innovation Network logo
Discontinued

NSIN Propel

🇺🇸NSIN · United States

Supports startups advancing national security technology through a focused two-stage accelerator.

DefenseAerospace+3
National Security Innovation Network logo
Discontinued

NSIN Vector Cohort

🇺🇸NSIN · United States

Supports early national security ventures through a cohort-based acceleration and dual-use marketplace.

DefenseAI+4
$50K
SpaceWERX logo
Discontinued

SpaceWERX Orbital Prime

🇺🇸SpaceWERX · United States

Funds U.S. small businesses developing on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing technologies through SpaceWERX SBIR/STTR contracts.

AerospaceDefense+4
$250K
EUREKA Network logo
Open

Globalstars

EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Funds joint research and development projects that pair an organisation from a EUREKA member country with an independent partner in a market outside the network, such as Japan, Taiwan, India or Uruguay.

Sep'26
Netherlands Enterprise Agency logo
Open

MIT R&D Cooperation Projects

🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands

Funds Dutch SME teams doing joint R&D to develop or renew products, processes or services.

€50K – €350KSep'26
UK Research and Innovation logo
Open

UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration Accounts 2027

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

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

Sep'26
Michigan Strategic Fund logo
Open

Michigan State Trade Expansion Program (MI-STEP)

🇺🇸MSF · United States

Funds Michigan small businesses pursuing export growth through pre-approved trade reimbursements.

$15KSep'26
European Commission logo
Open

ERC Proof of Concept Grant

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds existing ERC grant holders in testing the commercial or societal potential of already-funded research through a fixed EUR 150,000 top-up grant.

BiotechAI+5
€150KSep'26
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
SX
Open

Santander X Portugal Award - Startup

🇵🇹Santander X · Portugal

Splits a €20,000 prize among three Portuguese startups, plus a spot in the global final.

€10KSep'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

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