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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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European Institute of Innovation and Technology logo
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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
KI
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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
European Commission logo
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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.

European Commission logo
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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
ER
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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
ER
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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
ER
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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
ER
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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
ER
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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
ER
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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.

€10K
ER
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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
ER
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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.

€10M
Princeton Innovation + Schmidt DataX logo
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Eric and Wendy Schmidt Technology Fund

🇺🇸Princeton Innovation / Schmidt DataX · United States

Funds eligible Princeton researchers inventing or applying new research technology through one- or two-year grants.

$500K
OC
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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
European Commission logo
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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.

European Innovation Council logo
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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.

€50K
European Innovation Council logo
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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.

€100K
EI
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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 Commission logo
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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.

€100K – €350K
Vinnova — Sweden's Innovation Agency logo
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Eurostars autumn 2026 call 11

🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden

Funds Swedish SMEs and their international partners to bring near-market R&D to launch.

SEK 5M
EUREKA Network logo
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Eurostars Call 11 for projects

🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Funds international R&D and innovation projects led by an SME through each country's own national funding body.

Foundation for Science and Technology logo
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FCT CEEC Individual — 8th

🇵🇹FCT · Portugal

Supports Portugal researchers with structured pathways in scientific employment opportunities for early-career PhDs, from planning to deployment.

Foundation for Science and Technology logo
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FCT Mobility

🇵🇹FCT · Portugal

Funds Portuguese research mobility projects through grants supporting researcher and institutional mobility activities.

€27K
Foundation for Science and Technology logo
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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.

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