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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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Rhode Island Commerce Corporation logo
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Invention Incentive Program

🇺🇸RI Commerce · United States

Funds Rhode Island small businesses and inventors through reimbursements that support patent filing and filing-related costs.

$5K
ISC3 logo
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ISC3 Innovation Challenge

ISC3 · Germany

Awards a 25,000 EUR prize pool to global start-ups tackling that year's chosen theme.

€5K – €15K
Ministry of SMEs and Startups logo
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K-Micro-Enterprise Initiative

🇰🇷MSS · South Korea

Funds Korean micro-enterprises turning proven export demand into products, brands, certifications, and overseas sales.

₩100M
K-Startup Grand Challenge logo
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K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) for International Students

🇰🇷KSGC · South Korea

Gives free mentoring and pitch coaching to international student founders building in Korea.

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science logo
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KAKENHI Fostering Joint International Research

🇯🇵JSPS · Japan

Funds Japanese researchers with international collaborations for overseas joint studies.

¥12M
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science logo
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KAKENHI Scientific Research (A/B/C), Challenging Research, Early-Career Scientists

🇯🇵JSPS · Japan

Funds Japanese scientific research groups in investigator-led, challenging, and early-career domains.

¥100K – ¥200M
Technology Agency of the Czech Republic logo
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KAPPA — 1st for Proposals

🇨🇿TA CR · Czechia

Funds Czech and partner institutions through EEA-style cross-border applied-research collaborations.

€500K – €2.5M
Wyoming Business Council logo
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Kickstart Grant Program

🇺🇸WBC · United States

Funds Wyoming startups pursuing high-growth markets through paused non-dilutive Kickstart grants.

HardwareAI+3
$5K – $50K
Red.es (Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service) logo
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Kit Consulting

🇪🇸Red.es · Spain

Funds Spanish SMEs buying specialized digital advisory services through Kit Consulting vouchers.

AIIoT & Edge
€12K – €24K
Red.es (Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service) logo
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Kit Digital

🇪🇸Red.es · Spain

Funds Spanish SMEs and self-employed workers adopting market digitalization solutions through Kit Digital vouchers.

AIIoT & Edge
Red.es (Spanish Ministry for Digital Transformation and Civil Service) logo
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Kit Digital — Segment I Digitalization Aid

🇪🇸Red.es · Spain

Pays Spanish small businesses up to 12,000 euro to adopt digital tools.

€12K
European Commission logo
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Making Europe a global magnet for talent — attracting and retaining non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.

€3M – €3.3M
European Commission logo
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Mapping and service finder for Technology Infrastructures

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays one European consortium up to EUR 2 million to build an open, interactive portal that helps startups and SMEs find and access research and technology infrastructure services across Europe.

€2M
MassChallenge Switzerland logo
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MassChallenge Switzerland Accelerator 2026

MassChallenge CH · Switzerland

Runs a free, equity-free accelerator for early-stage startups, offering up to CHF 1M in cash prizes.

Moonshot Platform logo
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Moonshot Awards 2026

Moonshot · United States

Awards equity-free grants of $5,000 to $60,000, plus two years of mentorship, to changemakers aged 15-30 worldwide building solutions aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

$5K – $60K
European Commission logo
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MSCA Choose Europe for Science 2025

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Co-funds host-organisation talent-recruitment programmes that give researchers with a doctoral degree a stable, attractive career track in Europe.

European Commission logo
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MSCA COFUND 2026

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Co-funds new or existing doctoral or postdoctoral training programmes run by universities and research organisations, topping up national or regional funding with EU money.

European Commission logo
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MSCA Doctoral Networks 2025

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.

European Commission logo
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

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.

European Commission logo
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MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026

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.

European Commission logo
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MSCA Staff Exchanges 2025

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.

European Commission logo
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MSCA Staff Exchanges 2026

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.

European Commission logo
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MSCA4Ukraine Fellowships 2025

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds a single coordinating project that pays two-year fellowships so displaced Ukrainian researchers can continue their work at host organisations in the EU and Horizon Europe Associated Countries.

€9.5M – €10M
IIMV FIELD logo
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Naaripreneur for Her Program Cohort 2

🇮🇳IIMV FIELD · India

Awards up to INR 5 lakh total in grants plus 6 months' incubation to women-led Indian startups.

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