Hardware grants
Explore grants for hardware companies. This directory covers funding for electronics and device development, sensors, embedded systems, prototyping and small-batch production, from innovation agencies, research programs and manufacturers’ partnership schemes, alongside grants open to any sector.
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Appel à Projets Eurostars Call 11
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds French SMEs leading international R&D collaborations through Eurostars innovation aid.
Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE): Future Computing Research
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds eleven NSF computing programmes through one door — $280 million and roughly 600 awards across algorithms, systems, networks and AI.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇪EIS · Estonia
Administers research teams and institutions for Eurostars in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and hardware.
Mitacs Accelerate Global Excellence Award
🇨🇦Mitacs · Canada
Invests in exceptional international postdoctoral researchers relocating to Canada for industry-partnered research.
Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and App Lab
Arduino · Global / Multinational
Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.
MJSP Partnership
🇺🇸MN DEED · United States
Supports Minnesota employers in educational partnerships through workforce development grants for new worker pathways.
Globalstars call with Taiwan
🇹🇼EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports European and Taiwan teams building international technology and research alliances through Eureka Globalstars channels.
KIEM HighTech
🇳🇱Holland High Tech · Netherlands
Provides exploratory collaboration funding for Dutch teams linking academics and industry across photonics, climate, transport, and high-tech material systems.
KIEM HighTech
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch industry-linked applied research pilots and prototype development in high-technology fields.
Proof of Concept (Dokazivanje inovativnog koncepta) (PoC9 — First PK.1.1.17)
🇭🇷HAMAG-BICRO · Croatia
Funds concept-stage Croatian innovations by supporting technical validation, protection work, and proof activities before scale-up.
Strategic Mobility
🇸🇪SSF · Sweden
Supports cross-sector researcher mobility in Sweden through exchanges among academia, industry, and public institutions.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Electric Power
🇬🇧DfT · United Kingdom
Build and demonstrate battery-electric vessels or novel shore power systems.
Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Energy Efficiency
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK business-led collaborations developing innovative vessel energy efficiency technologies under the ZEVI 2 clean maritime programme.
CFI College Fund
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds the Canada Foundation for Innovation College Fund grants for Canadian colleges building research infrastructure and commercialization-ready outputs.
Computing resources on the STFC DiRAC HPC facility (RAC19)
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Computing resources and storage for STFC theory research using DiRAC.
Industrial Readiness for Affordable Ka-band User Terminals (IRIS²)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to two industrial teams to advance manufacturing readiness for affordable Ka-band satellite user terminals for IRIS² and GOVSATCOM.
UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration: CHERI IKC
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Establish an Innovation and Knowledge Centre for CHERI adoption and commercialisation.
Scaling performance of quantum computing hardware: CR&D
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Collaborative industrial research for quantum computing hardware and associated software.
Meta Research PhD Fellowship Cohort
🇺🇸Meta · United States
Offers a research fellowship stream for doctoral candidates in virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and systems research.
Novel Technologies for Rapid Proof of Clean in Professional Environments
Diversey · United States
Pays $10,000 for a genuinely new way to verify cleanliness in under 30 minutes.
Modern Equipment for Shared-use Biomedical Research Facilities: Advancing Research-Related Operations
🇺🇸NIH · United States
Funds up to $350,000 of equipment that keeps a shared research facility running — but explicitly not scientific instruments. A cost share is required.
ONR TRAPS SPA
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports development of shipboard power architectures that actively manage transient demand using controls, conversion, and storage.