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 169-192 of 1,018 grants
SPIN: Rise
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Offers early-career deep-tech researchers a free venture-creation and pre-incubation programme with training, coaching and a European bootcamp.
SPRIND Equity Investments & Convertible Loans
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Invests in German deep-tech ventures through shared-equity support with private co-financing and downside risk share.
STEM Intern Partnership
🇺🇸OCAST · United States
Funds Oklahoma-based companies working on deep-tech projects to hire STEM student interns with non-dilutive grants of up to $30,000 per year.
Strategic Fund Job Growth Incentive
🇺🇸OEDIT · United States
Funds company relocation and expansion through Colorado hiring incentives to strengthen real-world implementation.
TechSource Proposal Assistance Funding
🇺🇸Colorado SBDC · United States
Funds Colorado tech firms with proposal development and commercialization assistance.
VVP Launch Note
🇺🇸VIPC · United States
Offers Virginia startups a VVP Launch Note to convert into equity during later financing rounds.
VVP Pre-Seed Fund
🇺🇸VIPC · United States
Invests in Virginia pre-seed startups through equity co-investment partnerships and founder-ready growth support.
VVP Seed Fund
🇺🇸VIPC · United States
Invests in Virginia seed-stage startups through equity co-investment partnerships and growth readiness planning.
xTech|Adaptive Strike
🇺🇸Army · United States
Supports drone and counter-drone innovation through prizes and demonstration pathways.
Business Oregon Export Promotion Grant (OTPP)
🇺🇸Business Oregon · United States
Funds Oregon small businesses with reimbursement grants of up to $7,500 for export-related activities including international trade shows and trade missions.
STFC PATT Travel Claim
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom astronomers at eligible institutions by reimbursing travel and subsistence costs for approved telescope access.
Defence Innovation Secure Hubs
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Funds Canadian consortia establishing secure quantum and uncrewed-systems defence innovation hubs.
EIC Pathfinder Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
NASA NIAC Phase II
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds researchers and companies advancing early-stage space technology concepts through NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Phase II program.
NASA SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses conducting early-stage R&D to establish the feasibility of innovations aligned with NASA mission priorities.
NASA STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their research institution partners conducting early-stage space technology R&D through NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer program.
Advanced noise-reducing technologies for propulsion systems of next generation Ultra-efficient SMR aircraft
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds one team developing lightweight, noise-reducing fan and intake technology for a next-generation single-aisle aircraft's ultra-high-bypass-ratio engines, up to TRL 5.
AFWERX SpaceWERX STRATFI Space
🇺🇸AFWERX · United States
Supports Space Force technology graduates with matching investment for private sector scale-up.
AI-assisted digital aircraft design, manufacturing and MRO, towards a competitive aviation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into AI-assisted digital twins for aircraft design, manufacturing and maintenance, repair and overhaul.
Airborne capabilities for supporting reducing ATM environmental footprint
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research on climate-optimised flight trajectories, wake-energy retrieval and geometric altimetry to cut aviation's footprint.
Aircraft propulsion and energy management systems
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds development of modular propulsion, power and thermal-management technology for next-generation fighter aircraft.
ATI Strategic Programme — Strategic Batch EoI
🇬🇧ATI · United Kingdom
Funds large civil aerospace industrial research in the United Kingdom through high-value technology collaboration pathways.
ATM impact on climate change
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds research into how air traffic management affects noise, air quality and the climate.