Defense grants
Explore grants for defense and dual-use technology companies. This directory includes funding for defense research, autonomous systems, sensing, secure communications and resilience technology, from defense ministries, innovation units and multinational security programs, with the eligibility rules each funder sets out.
Showing 481-504 of 1,181 grants
Tackling child poverty and ensuring disadvantaged children's access to Early Childhood Education and Care
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to produce EU-specific evidence on the cost of child poverty and how to close gaps in disadvantaged children's access to early childhood education.
Tackling gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.
Transaction Costs Support for social finance intermediaries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays social finance intermediaries in the EU and ESF+ Associated Countries to cover due-diligence, legal and business-development costs on risk-capital investments under €1 million into social enterprises.
Horizon Research Management Facility
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a Europe-wide support service that helps Widening-country research institutions build stronger management teams, systems and training.
Horizon Widening: Teaming CoE Synergies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €7M action for research centres in widening regions to share expertise, build capacity and create lasting regional and European impact.
SME Eco-Tech
🇷🇴MEDAT · Romania
Gives Romanian SMEs, including trade, services and qualifying micro-enterprises, a co-financing grant of up to RON 267,240 toward green and digital investments, provided they also secure a matching bank loan.
VentureWell's Accelerator Programming
🇺🇸VentureWell · United States
Gives student innovators and startups up to $25,000 in grants plus mentorship and investor access.
AI for Transformative Social Impact
🇮🇳RAFT · India
Funds Indian nonprofits building AI-native tools for measurable social impact.
Deep Tech CEE Challenge 2026
🇵🇱Deep Tech Summit · Poland
Awards up to €5,000 and investor access to deep-tech startups that make its finals.
Start from Knowledge
🇵🇹FITEC · Portugal
Pays a nonrefundable €30,000 voucher to Portuguese academics taking research to market.
Trade Relations Programme (TRP) 2026
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Trade and Innovate NL network members to run export-support activities for Dutch firms.
Planning grant for international proposal 2026
🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden
Funds Swedish teams preparing a stronger proposal for a published international call.
Posting of workers: enhancing administrative cooperation and access to information
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays public authorities, social partners, universities and research bodies to improve cross-border cooperation and information on posted workers' rights.
America’s Startup
🇺🇸America250 · United States
Awards $25,000-$50,000 in non-dilutive grants to U.S. undergraduate student founders.
German-Swedish Call for joint R&D projects by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises spring 2026
🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden
Funds joint R&D projects between Swedish and German SMEs in any technology area.
ERC Starting Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds early-career researchers building an independent research team and pursuing frontier research through an ERC Starting Grant hosted at a public or private research organisation.
Doctoral focal award: UKRI venture doctorates: outline stage
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Funding for entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training and venture creation.
EUREKA 2026 Call
🇵🇱NCBR · Poland
Co-funds Polish SMEs and larger firms building market-ready tech with a partner in another EUREKA country.
Princeton Intellectual Property Accelerator Fund
🇺🇸Princeton Innovation / Schmidt DataX · United States
Funds Princeton investigators moving university inventions toward licensing through proof-of-concept and prototype grants.
BIG Idea Competition
🇺🇸BIG Idea SD · United States
Pays high school students in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota cash prizes and scholarships for their best business idea.
Eurogia Clean Technologies Call for Proposals
🇨🇦NRC · Canada
Funds Canadian firms in EUREKA low-carbon energy R&D consortia.
NSF Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR/STTR)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Gives U.S. small businesses non-dilutive R&D funding for high-risk, high-impact deep-tech across nearly every technical field, from a Phase I award through a larger Phase II award.
Grant for Recruiting International Visiting Researchers
🇸🇪VR · Sweden
Funds Swedish higher education institutions to host international researchers and strengthen global collaboration.
SME Collectives Sustainable Travel Behaviour (COVER)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch SME representative bodies to make their members' employee commuting greener.