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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ERC Plus Grants 2026
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Pays outstanding researchers up to EUR 7 million for a major scientific challenge a regular ERC grant couldn't fund.
ERC Proof of Concept Grants 2025
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to test the commercial or social potential of their funded research.
ERC Public Engagement with Research Award
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Awards ERC grant holders up to EUR 10,000 for outstanding public engagement with their ERC-funded research.
ERC Starting Grants 2026
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Pays early-career researchers up to EUR 1.5 million over five years to launch their own independent research team.
ERC Synergy Grants 2026
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Pays a group of two to four Principal Investigators up to EUR 10 million to jointly tackle a research problem none of them could solve alone.
Eric and Wendy Schmidt Technology Fund
🇺🇸Princeton Innovation / Schmidt DataX · United States
Funds eligible Princeton researchers inventing or applying new research technology through one- or two-year grants.
ESD Okayama Award 2026
Okayama City · Japan
Awards $3,000 to one or two Education for Sustainable Development projects that any organization worldwide has run for at least three years.
EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme (TMS)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds EURES organisations to place and support around 4,000 mobile jobseekers and apprentices across the EU and EEA.
European Prize for Women Innovators — Rising Innovators category
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Pays a share of a EUR 100,000 prize to women under 35 who have founded breakthrough European innovation companies.
European Prize for Women Innovators — Women Innovators category
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Pays a share of a EUR 220,000 prize to women founders of breakthrough European innovations, with no age limit.
European Prize for Women Innovators — Women Leadership category (EIT)
🇪🇺EIT · European Union
Pays a share of a EUR 100,000 prize to women founders with a direct link to the EIT Community who lead breakthrough European innovations.
European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2026-2027
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds European Researchers' Night events and Researchers at Schools visits that bring researchers face to face with the public and pupils across Europe.
Eurostars autumn 2026 call 11
🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden
Funds Swedish SMEs and their international partners to bring near-market R&D to launch.
Eurostars Call 11 for projects
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds international R&D and innovation projects led by an SME through each country's own national funding body.
FCT CEEC Individual — 8th
🇵🇹FCT · Portugal
Supports Portugal researchers with structured pathways in scientific employment opportunities for early-career PhDs, from planning to deployment.
FCT Mobility
🇵🇹FCT · Portugal
Funds Portuguese research mobility projects through grants supporting researcher and institutional mobility activities.
FCT PhD Studentships — Regular Line of
🇵🇹FCT · Portugal
Supports Portugal researchers with structured pathways in PhD-level research continuity across Portuguese institutions, from planning to deployment.
FCT PhD Studentships — Specific Line of in a Non-Academic Environment
🇵🇹FCT · Portugal
Supports Portugal researchers with structured pathways in industry-linked PhD development in public hosts, from planning to deployment.
Financial support to access services from Ecosystem partners
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Reimburses up to EUR 60,000 in EIC Ecosystem Partner service costs — R&D infrastructure, prototyping, IP/legal support and more — to companies that already hold an EIC award.
Fostering the consolidation of European science diplomacy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one European coordination project up to EUR 3 million to map European science diplomacy players and launch a shared platform for the field.
Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program to Romania
🇺🇸Fulbright Romania · Romania
Funds US scholars with a PhD to teach, research or work professionally in Romania.
Future Stars U25 Grant
🇮🇳IKP · India
Pays five under-25 Indian founders up to Rs. 5 lakh each to build their idea.
GAMA 2 (sub-programme 2)
🇨🇿TA CR · Czechia
Funds Czech startups and small businesses developing feasibility studies and business plans for innovation execution.
Global Innovation Challenge 2026
Social Shifters · United Kingdom
Awards up to $15,000 to youth-led startups tackling a social or environmental problem.