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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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Tackling gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.

€3.5M – €4M
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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.

€3.4M
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TBAT 2026 Innovation Challenge

🇬🇧TBAT · United Kingdom

Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.

£1K – £50K
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TCF Open Voucher Call

🇺🇸DOE · United States

Pays innovators up to $100,000 in vouchers to work with a U.S. national laboratory.

$100K
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Techarena Challenge

Techarena · Sweden

Offers Nordic startups exhibition space, lodging and investor access at Almedalen.

California Office of the Small Business Advocate logo
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Technical Assistance Program (TAP)

🇺🇸CalOSBA · United States

Funds nonprofit capacity through technical assistance infrastructure for California small businesses.

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The Arena Pitch Competition

🇨🇦Metronomics · Canada

Awards Canadian student founders up to $10,000 in a national bracket-style pitch competition.

CAD 1K – CAD 10K
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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.

€3M – €3.5M
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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.

₹400K
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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.

€3M – €3.5M
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Trade Relations Programme (TRP) 2026

🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands

Pays Trade and Innovate NL network members to run export-support activities for Dutch firms.

€150K
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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.

€1M – €1.5M
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Transaction Costs Support for social finance intermediaries

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays social finance intermediaries in the EU and ESF+ Associated Countries to cover due-diligence, legal and business-development costs on risk-capital investments under €1 million into social enterprises.

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UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration Accounts 2027

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.

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Unicorn Bridge

🇰🇷MSS · South Korea

Funds high-growth Korean technology companies scaling overseas, raising global capital, and preparing for public markets.

₩1.6B
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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.

€2M
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VentureWell's Accelerator Programming

🇺🇸VentureWell · United States

Gives student innovators and startups up to $25,000 in grants plus mentorship and investor access.

$5K – $20K
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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.

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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.

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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.

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Voucher V1 – Business Delegations Abroad

🇸🇮SEF · Slovenia

Reimburses Slovenian SMEs up to EUR 2,000 for joining official trade delegations abroad.

€300 – €2K
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Vouchers for Startups - New Digital and Technological Products

🇵🇹IAPMEI & Startup PT · Portugal

Funds Portuguese startups €30,000 to build new digital and tech products.

€30K
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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.

Climate Tech
£650K
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Water Discovery Challenge 2

🇬🇧Ofwat · United Kingdom

Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.

£550K

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