Defense grants

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Awards up to $300,000 in cash prizes for a next-generation squad-weapon fire control module.

Discontinued

Funds Texas A&M faculty summits that connect researchers and trigger new collaborative science initiatives.

Discontinued

Funds United States teams building multilingual language tools for difficult intelligence vocabulary and specialised terminology.

Discontinued

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

Discontinued

Funds United States researchers using movement from video to support neurological assessment in intelligence profiles.

Discontinued

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

Discontinued

Invests through Taiwania Capital to allocate sovereign funds to Taiwanese startups in biotech, IoT, and clean energy.

Discontinued

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

Discontinued

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

Discontinued

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

Discontinued

Connects startups, universities, and innovators to national security talent and problem-solving networks.

Open

Funds Swedish SMEs and their international partners to bring near-market R&D to launch.

Open

Funds international R&D and innovation projects led by an SME through each country's own national funding body.

Open

Co-funds Polish SMEs running R&D projects with a partner in another Eurostars-3 country.

Open

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.

Open

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

Open

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

Open

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

Open

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.

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

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

Open

Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.

Open

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.

Open

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.