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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NIDHI Seed Support Program (NIDHI-SSP) — Call 2
🇮🇳IKP EDEN · India
Pays Indian tech startups up to Rs. 1 crore in seed funding to hit product and market milestones.
NIDHI-Seed Support System (SSS)
🇮🇳Amity Incubator · India
Funds up to Rs. 50 lakh in equity-free seed money for early-stage startups.
Non-thematic development actions by SMEs
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays SMEs a lump-sum grant to develop any innovative defence product or technology of their own choosing, including civil tech adapted for defence.
Non-thematic research actions by SMEs and research organisations
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays SMEs and research organisations a lump-sum grant to research any innovative defence technology of their own choosing.
Non-thematic research actions targeting disruptive technologies for defence
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays for high-risk, high-reward research into any radically new defence technology that breaks with current approaches.
Novel circular business models to enable the just transition to a sustainable and circular economy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds companies and researchers that build and demonstrate at scale new circular business models — reuse, repair, sharing, product-as-a-service.
Open Pitch
OOF · United States
Pays one early-stage startup $125,000 for winning a live pitch at Invest Fest.
Open strategic autonomy, economic and research security in EU foreign policy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research projects up to EUR 3.5 million that build the EU's evidence base on open strategic autonomy and research security.
Open Topic: Innovative solutions for the sustainable and circular transformation of SMEs
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds open-topic solutions — from AI tools to new business models — that help SMEs cut resource use and comply with green-transition rules.
P2R 2026 – Incentives for Start-Up of Companies in Border Problem Areas
🇸🇮SEF · Slovenia
Pays new Slovenian companies in border regions a EUR 30,000 lump sum start-up grant.
PCIEERD Capability Development Program — ExperTISE + GODDESS
🇵🇭DOST · Philippines
Offers capacity-building and training support for Philippine science and technology institutions through PCIEERD grants.
Pilot initiatives on Technology Infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Paid five European projects between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million each to map a chosen technology area's infrastructure gaps and propose an EU-level plan to close them.
Preparatory actions exploring future frameworks for research infrastructures investment plans and funding streams, for integrated and sustained scheme for access and for joint technology development
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one preparatory study, chosen from three named areas, mapping future funding, access or joint technology models for European research infrastructures.
Preparing the EU for future enlargement: challenges and opportunities
🇦🇱European Commission · European Union
Funds research projects up to EUR 3.5 million that study how the EU and citizens can prepare for future enlargement rounds.
Princeton New Industrial Collaborations Fund
🇺🇸Princeton Innovation / Schmidt DataX · United States
Funds Princeton science and engineering faculty starting new industry research partnerships through two-year grants.
Proof of Business
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies developing their first technologically innovative prototype or service, covering 50 to 70 percent of the budget for technical and economic validation.
Quantum Dice Use Case Challenge
🇬🇧Quantum Dice · United Kingdom
Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.
Queens Tech & Innovation Challenge
🇺🇸QEDC · United States
Awards up to $20,000 each to five early-stage entrepreneurs with strong Queens ties.
R&D for the next generation of scientific instrumentation, tools, methods, digitalisation and solutions for research infrastructure upgrades
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds R&D for new scientific instruments, tools and digitalisation that upgrade European research infrastructures, co-developed with industry.
Research infrastructure concept development including major upgrades or extensions of existing infrastructures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds feasibility and design studies for the next generation of European research infrastructures, or transformative upgrades to existing ones.
Research infrastructure services advancing frontier knowledge (bottom-up)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds transnational or virtual access to top research infrastructures in a scientific domain not already covered by earlier frontier-access calls.
Research infrastructures as accelerators of the integration of Ukraine in the European Research Area
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds joint projects between Ukrainian and European research infrastructures, including remote fellowships for Ukraine-based researchers.
Researchers at Risk Fellowship
🇨🇿CAS · Czechia
Funds Czech Academy institutes employing at-risk researchers so they can continue scientific work in the Czech Republic for up to 24 months.
Romanian Government Scholarships for Foreign Citizens
Romanian Government · Romania
Pays tuition, fees, a stipend and housing for foreign students studying in Romania.