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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ASMA (ASTRID Maturation)
🇫🇷AID · France
Funds maturation of prior French defence-funded research into technology-ready outputs with dual-use potential.
ASTRID
🇫🇷AID · France
Backs early-stage exploratory research with dual civilian and military applicability across fifteen thematic areas.
ASTRID
🇫🇷ANR · France
Funds France innovation teams building dual-use innovation for industry security from proof to commercialization.
BRIDGE
🇦🇹FFG · Austria
Funds Austrian science-industry consortia transferring basic research toward industrial applications.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Higher Speed Optical Access Networks and future end-to-end Packet Optical Network Architecture in 6G
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds research on high-capacity, energy-efficient optical access networks and AI-managed optical architecture for the 6G transport layer.
Innovation Support to Operations Phase 3
🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds UK-registered companies delivering manufacturable, TRL 6-ready defence technology innovations scalable to operational use within twelve months.
Innovative Advanced Materials for photonics in telecommunication
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds around two research projects, each worth up to EUR 5 million, to develop low-power advanced materials for photonic telecom chips.
Large Investment Loan with Capital Rebate — Round 4
🇱🇻ALTUM · Latvia
Funds strategic research and innovation investments in Latvia with long-horizon financing and rebate support.
Large-Scale Photonic Quantum Computing Platform Technologies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one project, led by a photonic-quantum-computing startup, EUR 10 million to build toward a 1,000-qubit photonic quantum computer by 2030 with a named end-user demonstration.
Making food systems more resilient to food safety risks through the deployment of technological solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds R&D that turns existing food-safety science — molecular methods, genomics, photonics — into deployable tools against food fraud and safety risks.
Maturing of a European industrial ecosystem for security-certified terrestrial QKD technologies and systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds up to five projects that mature and security-certify European quantum key distribution hardware and systems for deployment in telecom networks.
National Materials Innovation Programme: Feasibility Studies
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK registered businesses conducting feasibility studies in advanced materials innovation through Innovate UK grants under the National Materials Innovation Programme.
Networking and Future Photonics Strategy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one European consortium EUR 3 million to coordinate the Photonics Partnership's research roadmap, monitor its funded projects and help the sector access private and blended finance.
NM Quantum Technologies Award
🇺🇸NM TIO · United States
Funds early-stage quantum and quantum-enabling technology companies establishing or growing operations in New Mexico.
NSF X-Labs (Quantum + Scientific Instrumentation)
🇺🇸NSF TIP · United States
Funds independent research organizations focused on quantum systems and scientific instrumentation breakthroughs.
OSD ManTech / MII Project Calls
🇺🇸DoD · United States
Supports advanced manufacturing research and innovation through Manufacturing Innovation Institute calls.