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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Support for innovative technology projects (POCIDIF)
🇷🇴MIPE · Romania
Funds Romanian companies' technology-innovation projects, done alone or with research partners.
Support for the Ukrainian tech SMEs and startups
🇺🇦European Commission · European Union
Pays lump-sum grants of EUR 300,000 to 500,000 to Ukrainian deep-tech startups to validate their technology and become investment-ready.
Support to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one project to run the administrative and analytical support office for ESFRI, the EU's research infrastructure strategy body.
Sustenance Allowance (Scheme for Assistance for Start Ups/Innovation, Gujarat)
🇮🇳Gujarat Industries Dept · India
Funds Gujarat startups up to ₹30 lakh for prototyping, market research and event costs.
Swiss Innovation Challenge
🇨🇭SIC · Switzerland
Pays CHF 30,000 plus in-kind support to a standout Swiss innovation project.
Tackling gender-based violence in different social and economic spheres
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research projects worth EUR 3.4 million each that study gender-based violence at work, in sport or online.
Tartan Entrepreneurs Fund
🇺🇸Swartz Center · United States
Funds Pittsburgh-based CMU alumni and faculty founders building high-growth startups with $100,000 in non-dilutive grant funding over two years.
TCF Open Voucher Call
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Pays innovators up to $100,000 in vouchers to work with a U.S. national laboratory.
Techarena Challenge
Techarena · Sweden
Offers Nordic startups exhibition space, lodging and investor access at Almedalen.
Technical Assistance Program (TAP)
🇺🇸CalOSBA · United States
Funds nonprofit capacity through technical assistance infrastructure for California small businesses.
The autocratic appeal: nature, drivers and strategies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research projects up to EUR 3.5 million that study why autocratic tendencies are spreading and how to resist them.
TIDE 2.0 Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR) Scheme
🇮🇳IIMV FIELD · India
Awards up to INR 4 lakh in grants plus a year of incubation to India-based tech startups.
Towards a European research hub on contemporary antisemitism and Jewish life and culture
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one European network up to EUR 3.5 million to build a research hub on contemporary antisemitism and Jewish life.
Training and up-skilling of research infrastructures technical staff
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one-stop-shop training programmes that build the technical, digital and career skills of staff who run Europe's research infrastructures.
Unicorn Bridge
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Funds high-growth Korean technology companies scaling overseas, raising global capital, and preparing for public markets.
Value creation pilots for scaling up innovative solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Paid one European consortium EUR 2 million to test at least 10 transdisciplinary pilots preparing mature research results for scale-up across Europe.
Virginia R&D Expenses + Major R&D Tax Credit
🇺🇸VA TAX · United States
Funds Virginia companies through income tax credits for qualifying innovation as a legacy incentive.
Volunteering in support of humanitarian aid operations
🇪🇺EACEA · European Union
Pays organisations to place young volunteers aged 18-35 in humanitarian aid operations in non-EU countries.
Volunteering Teams in High Priority Areas 2026
🇪🇺EACEA · European Union
Pays organisations to run volunteer teams tackling preparedness, disadvantaged youth, or intergenerational fairness in high-priority areas.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Water Innovation Fund · United Kingdom
Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.
Water Discovery Challenge 2
🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom
Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.
Women Startup Challenge: Tech Startup Grant
Women Who Tech · United States
Awarded $20,000 in equity-free grants to women-led tech startups after a live investor pitch.
Women Tech.EU initiative
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one consortium up to EUR 15 million to run the Women TechEU scheme, which itself re-grants up to EUR 75,000 to individual women-led deep-tech startups.
Working time reduction: barriers, challenges, benefits and policy implications
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research projects worth EUR 3.4 million each that study the economic, social and environmental effects of reduced working time.