AI grants
Explore grants for AI companies. This directory includes funding for machine learning research, foundation models, compute and data infrastructure, trustworthy AI and applied AI in industry, health and public services, from national research agencies, innovation programs and corporate funds, alongside grants open to any sector.
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Appel à Projets Eurostars Call 11
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French SMEs leading international R&D collaborations through Eurostars innovation aid.
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Computing Research
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds eleven NSF computing programmes through one door — $280 million and roughly 600 awards across algorithms, systems, networks and AI.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇪EIS · Estonia
Administers research teams and institutions for Eurostars in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and hardware.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.
FWF ASTRA Awards — Next
🇦🇹FWF · Austria
Supports Austrian postdoctoral excellence through advanced awards for innovative research in science and engineering.
Mitacs Accelerate Global Excellence Award
🇨🇦Mitacs · Canada
Invests in exceptional international postdoctoral researchers relocating to Canada for industry-partnered research.
Accelerator RISING
🇩🇪hessian.AI · Germany
Gives German AI startups a four-month scale-up sprint with 10,000€ per team and a trip to Slush Helsinki.
Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and App Lab
Arduino · Global / Multinational
Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.
MJSP Partnership
🇺🇸MN DEED · United States
Supports Minnesota employers in educational partnerships through workforce development grants for new worker pathways.
MJSP Pathways
🇺🇸MN DEED · United States
Supports Minnesota workforce pathways through business-education partnerships that create skilled career tracks.
2026 Global Quantum + AI Challenge
TQI · Global / Multinational
Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.
FWF Specialized Research Groups
🇦🇹FWF · Austria
Supports research groups in Austria building transdisciplinary projects for long-term scientific impact.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Pays startups, research teams and enterprises a share of $200,000 in prizes for solutions that turn quantum computing research into deployable industrial pilots across five sectors.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge 2026
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.
Globalstars call with Taiwan
🇹🇼EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports European and Taiwan teams building international technology and research alliances through Eureka Globalstars channels.
Globalstars Call with Taiwan 2026
🇫🇮Business Finland · Finland
Funds Finnish companies, research organisations and universities that team up with Taiwanese partners on joint R&D projects in semiconductors, photonics, AI and quantum hardware.
Globalstars Call with Taiwan 2026
🇦🇹EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds joint R&D projects between Taiwan and four European countries.
Horizon Buildings: Whole Life Carbon Data Platforms
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €5.25M projects that plug embodied and operational carbon data into building certificates, passports and BIM tools.
Horizon Cyber: Robust & Private AI Systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds EU teams hardening AI systems against adversarial attacks and building privacy-preserving AI for sensitive government and enterprise use.
KIEM HighTech
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch industry-linked applied research pilots and prototype development in high-technology fields.
MAESTRO 18
🇵🇱NCN · Poland
Funds advanced Polish research groups with ambitious scientific goals in frontier topics.
Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
NIST · United States
Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.
NSF Dynamic Language Infrastructure - NEH Documenting Endangered Languages
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds the recording, analysis and archiving of languages at risk of falling out of use. NSF and the humanities endowment pay for it jointly.
Optical wireless communications research and testing facility
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Funding to establish a national optical wireless communications test facility.