Photonics grants
Explore grants for photonics companies. This directory covers funding for lasers, optics, integrated photonics, imaging and sensing, optical communications and photonic manufacturing, from research councils, innovation agencies and photonics industry programs.
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Young Person's Start Up Grant
🇬🇧Welsh Gov · United Kingdom
Supports young entrepreneurs in Wales with seed assistance and mentoring for first business launch.
MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2027
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds part of the cost of talent-recruitment programmes that give postdoctoral researchers a two-phase path to a stable research career in Europe.
MSCA COFUND 2027
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds part of the cost of running new or existing doctoral training programmes at universities and research organisations.
Deploying circular systemic solutions through living labs in cities and regions (Circular Cities and Regions Initiative topic)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds city and regional authorities to run living labs that scale up circular-economy solutions across Europe.
MSCA Staff Exchanges 2027
European Commission · European Union
Funds secondments of staff between partner organisations worldwide so researchers and R&I staff gain cross-sector, cross-country and cross-discipline experience.
Supernova Challenge
GITEX CAC · United Arab Emirates
Pays equity-free cash prizes to exhibiting startups that pitch live on the main stage at GITEX AI Kazakhstan.
MSCA and Citizens 2027
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds European Researchers' Night events and Researchers at Schools visits that bring MSCA-funded scientists face to face with the public and pupils.
Consolidation of the research infrastructure landscape – individual support for evolution, long-term sustainability and emerging needs of pan-European research infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds individual support to a single ESFRI Landmark or European Research Infrastructure Consortium to strengthen, evolve or sustain a pan-European research infrastructure.
Female Founders Co-Investment Fund
🇦🇺QLD Government · Australia
Funds Queensland women-led innovation businesses raising early-stage equity through matched co-investment grants.
ERA Fellowships
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a postdoctoral fellowship for researchers who move to a host organisation in an EU widening country, building research careers outside Europe's traditional science hubs.
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027
European Commission · European Union
Pays a postdoctoral researcher's fellowship at a host organisation in Europe, or abroad with a mandatory return phase, to build international research experience.
Closing the learning gap: uncovering causes and effective policy interventions for declining youth skills in mathematics, reading, and science
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into the structural causes of Europe's 15-year decline in youth maths, reading and science skills.
Crafting routes to a circular economy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research turning crafts, heritage buildings, food traditions or design into practical circular-economy models.
Persons with disabilities: opportunities for labour inclusion and social protection through the life course
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research on closing the employment gap and fixing social-protection benefit traps for people with disabilities.
Rethinking sustainable competitiveness beyond traditional perspectives: role and contribution of the Social Economy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research measuring how cooperatives, mutuals and social enterprises contribute to the EU's sustainable competitiveness.
Strengthening rural communities' resilience to shocks
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research and pilots that help rural communities anticipate, survive and recover from economic, climate or social shocks.
The effective use of artificial intelligence in learning environments in pre-primary and primary education
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds long-term studies on how AI tools affect learning outcomes and wellbeing in pre-primary and primary schools.
Towards a consolidated culture and creativity driven European innovation ecosystem
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one long-term project to turn Europe's scattered culture-and-creativity innovation projects into a lasting, self-sustaining ecosystem.
Community policing in diverse societies in Europe
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds police forces and civil-society groups to develop training that builds trust between police and diverse communities.
EIC Pre-accelerator - Widening
🇧🇬European Commission · European Union
Funds deep-tech start-ups in EU widening countries with up to EUR 500,000 to reach investment readiness and qualify for EIC Accelerator or other funding.
MSCA Doctoral Networks 2027
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.
Grant for Equity Market Singapore (GEMS) Scheme
🇸🇬MAS · Singapore
Supports Singapore listed and licensed financial firms with guidance for listing and investor research.
Deep Tech Accelerator (DTA)
🇫🇮Business Finland · Finland
Funds young Finnish deep-tech companies commercialising research results through a phased grant-and-loan package.
ENEA Proof of Concept Program
ENEA · Italy
Funds companies moving ENEA laboratory technologies toward industrial use through co-funded proof-of-concept projects.