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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NASA NIAC Phase II
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Funds researchers and companies advancing early-stage space technology concepts through NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Phase II program.
NASA STTR Phase I
🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses and their research institution partners conducting early-stage space technology R&D through NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer program.
Advanced sensor technologies and multimodal sensor integration
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds around five projects, each worth EUR 4 to 6 million, to bring multimodal photonic sensors to market across healthcare, transport and industry.
ASMA (ASTRID Maturation)
🇫🇷AID · France
Funds maturation of prior French defence-funded research into technology-ready outputs with dual-use potential.
ASTRID
🇫🇷ANR · France
Funds France innovation teams building dual-use innovation for industry security from proof to commercialization.
ASTRID
🇫🇷AID · France
Backs early-stage exploratory research with dual civilian and military applicability across fifteen thematic areas.
BRIDGE
🇦🇹FFG · Austria
Funds Austrian science-industry consortia transferring basic research toward industrial applications.
Call with Digital Partnership and TTC countries
Chips JU · European Union
Funds joint EU-partner-country research on neuromorphic computing, advanced packaging and semiconductor manufacturing.
CHIPS Metrology SBIR — Phase I
🇺🇸CHIPS for America · United States
Funds U.S. small businesses developing semiconductor measurement tools, instrumentation, and metrologies for the domestic chip-making supply chain.
Cooperative Agreement for In Vivo High-Resolution Imaging for Inner Ear Visualization
NIH · United States
Funds high-risk clinical trials of new ways to see inside the living human inner ear. A trial is compulsory, and NIH stays in the room.
Core technologies for virtual worlds (RIA) (Virtual Worlds and Photonics Partnerships)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds up to seven projects, worth EUR 5–6 million each, on multimodal immersion technology or the optics and photonics hardware behind virtual-world headsets and sensors.
DEFRA Space Call
🇧🇪BELSPO · Belgium
Funds Belgian companies doing R&D in defence space capabilities — Earth Observation satellites and Space Situation Awareness systems.
Early Independence: Ernest Rutherford Fellowships 2026
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for early-career researchers building an independent STFC research niche.
Eurostars — Brussels Co-funding
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels R&D SMEs participating in Eurostars international collaboration projects, covering 40 to 80 percent of project costs depending on company size and project type.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.
Excellence Clusters for Groundbreaking Technologies
🇸🇪VR · Sweden
Funds university-led Swedish technology clusters building cross-disciplinary research teams for frontier innovation.
Expression of interest: Japan-UK joint call for collaborations in Advanced Connectivity Technologies
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Joint UK-Japan research partnerships in advanced connectivity technologies.
Funding for STFC core summer schools for 2027
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Funding for five STFC core summer schools taking place in 2027.
Future computing paradigms Network Plus
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
Build a multidisciplinary network for future computing paradigms.
Globalstars call with Taiwan
🇹🇼EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports European and Taiwan teams building international technology and research alliances through Eureka Globalstars channels.
Globalstars Call with Taiwan 2026
🇫🇮Business Finland · Finland
Funds Finnish companies, research organisations and universities that team up with Taiwanese partners on joint R&D projects in semiconductors, photonics, AI and quantum hardware.
Globalstars Call with Taiwan 2026
🇦🇹EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds joint R&D projects between Taiwan and four European countries.
Grand Challenges — Ultralow-Cost Diagnostics and Screening for Low-Income Countries
Gates Foundation · United States
Funds global teams developing diagnostic devices and screening tools that cost approximately $1 per test or near-zero incremental cost per person screened for deployment in low-income countries.
Harvard Grid Accelerator — Awards
🇺🇸Harvard OTD · United States
Offers Harvard engineering teams startup support to take inventions from laboratory development to commercialization outcomes.