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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 961-984 of 1,185 grants

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Demonstration, deployment and upscaling of circular systemic solutions in cities and regions (Circular Cities and Regions Initiative)

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds city and regional authorities running circular-economy demonstrations across at least two sectors, with private-sector and start-up involvement.

€9M
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Doctoral focal award: UKRI venture doctorates: outline stage

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Funding for entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training and venture creation.

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DST NIDHI Seed Support Scheme (SSS) at IIMK LIVE

🇮🇳LIVE · India

Awards up to INR 1 crore in milestone-based seed funding to IIMK LIVE incubatees.

₹10M
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EIC Accelerator 2025 - Short application

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds deep-tech SMEs and start-ups scaling breakthrough innovations, combining EUR 0.5-12.5 million of funding with business coaching and investor support.

€500K – €12.5M
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EIC Accelerator Open 2025

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds any deep-tech start-up or SME through the open, bottom-up strand of the EIC Accelerator 2025 call, with no fixed technology theme.

€500K – €17.5M
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EIC Pathfinder Open 2026

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds interdisciplinary research consortia pursuing high-risk, high-gain early-stage deep-tech breakthroughs with EU contributions of EUR 1 million to 4 million.

€1M – €4M
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EIC pre-accelerator - Widening

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays deep-tech SMEs in Horizon Europe Widening countries to mature their technology from TRL4 to TRL5/6 and get investment-ready.

€300K – €500K
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EIT Women Leadership Award

🇪🇺EIT · European Union

Awards EUR50,000 to a top woman leader from the EIT Community, plus EUR30,000 and EUR20,000 to two runners-up.

€20K – €50K
Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS), Department of Electronics, IT, BT & S&T, Government of Karnataka logo
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ELEVATE Shakti 2026

🇮🇳KITS · India

Awards women-led Karnataka startups up to INR 50 lakhs in early-stage seed grant-in-aid.

₹5M
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Empowering youth in the EU Outermost Regions – YOUTH 4 OUTERMOST REGIONS (#YOUTH4ORS)

🇫🇷European Commission · European Union

Funds one organisation to run youth-led community and entrepreneurship actions across the EU's Outermost Regions.

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ERA Fellowships

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays a postdoctoral researcher's fellowship at a host organisation in an EU Widening country to help those countries attract and keep research talent.

€100K – €500K
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ERC Advanced Grants 2025

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

€2.5M
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ERC Advanced Grants 2026

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

€2.5M
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ERC Consolidator Grants 2026

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays researchers consolidating their own independent lab up to EUR 2 million over five years for frontier research.

€2M
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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.

€7M
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ERC Proof of Concept Grant

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

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.

BiotechAI+5
€150K
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ERC Proof of Concept Grants

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

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

€150K
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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.

€150K
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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.

€5K – €10K
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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.

€1.5M
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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.

€14M
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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.

$3K
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EUREKA 2026 Call

🇵🇱NCBR · Poland

Co-funds Polish SMEs and larger firms building market-ready tech with a partner in another EUREKA country.

zł 2M
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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.

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