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.
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Eurogia Clean Technologies Call for Proposals
🇨🇦NRC · Canada
Funds Canadian firms in EUREKA low-carbon energy R&D consortia.
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 — Brussels Co-funding
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels R&D SMEs participating in Eurostars international collaboration projects, covering 40 to 80 percent of project costs depending on company size and project type.
Eurostars (Calls 10 & 11)
🇪🇺Eurostars · European Union
Co-funds R&D-intensive SMEs that team up with partners in other Eurostars countries to develop and commercialise a joint innovation.
Eurostars autumn 2026 call 11
🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden
Funds Swedish SMEs and their international partners to bring near-market R&D to launch.
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.
Feasibility Studies
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies checking the technical feasibility of their innovation, covering 50 to 70 percent of a technical feasibility study carried out in-house or with a specialist consultant.
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.
Financing Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises — Upper Egypt
🇪🇬MSMEDA · Egypt
Provides German loan and grant financing to MSMEDA to support MSME development, jobs and living standards in Upper Egypt.
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.
GENAI
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies integrating generative AI into their products, services, or internal processes through a feasibility study and proof-of-concept project.
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.
Global Innovation Challenge 2026
Social Shifters · United Kingdom
Awards up to $15,000 to youth-led startups tackling a social or environmental problem.
Global Startup Commercialization Support
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Supports foreign-founded startups entering Korea with market localization and expansion assistance.
Good Jobs & Inclusive Entrepreneurship
Solve · United States
Funds tech ventures spurring good jobs and inclusive entrepreneurship with a $10,000 grant.