Quantum grants
Explore grants for quantum technology companies. This directory brings together funding for quantum computing hardware and software, quantum sensing, quantum communications and the enabling components behind them, from national quantum programs, research councils and defense research agencies.
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FWF ASTRA Awards — Next
🇦🇹FWF · Austria
Supports Austrian postdoctoral excellence through advanced awards for innovative research in science and engineering.
2026 Global Quantum + AI Challenge
TQI · Global / Multinational
Awards $40,000 per track to teams solving real quantum problems for five global enterprises.
FWF Specialized Research Groups
🇦🇹FWF · Austria
Supports research groups in Austria building transdisciplinary projects for long-term scientific impact.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Pays startups, research teams and enterprises a share of $200,000 in prizes for solutions that turn quantum computing research into deployable industrial pilots across five sectors.
Global Quantum + AI Challenge 2026
Resonance Alliance · Canada
Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.
Globalstars Call with Taiwan 2026
🇦🇹EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds joint R&D projects between Taiwan and four European countries.
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.
KIEM HighTech
🇳🇱Holland High Tech · Netherlands
Provides exploratory collaboration funding for Dutch teams linking academics and industry across photonics, climate, transport, and high-tech material systems.
MAESTRO 18
🇵🇱NCN · Poland
Funds advanced Polish research groups with ambitious scientific goals in frontier topics.
SONATA BIS 16
🇵🇱NCN · Poland
Funds established Polish researchers for team-based basic science projects connecting lab discovery to excellence.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
Accelerating adoption of quantum enabled sensing and PNT
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Collaborative projects to address barriers to adopting quantum sensing and PNT.
Quantum computing applications for large scale impact: CR&D
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Build quantum software that solves a named industrial problem better than classical methods.
ERC Proof of Concept Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds existing ERC grant holders in testing the commercial or societal potential of already-funded research through a fixed EUR 150,000 top-up grant.
Scaling performance of quantum computing hardware: CR&D
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Collaborative industrial research for quantum computing hardware and associated software.
Canada-G7-Nordic call for proposals on quantum technologies
🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom
International collaborative research in quantum science and technologies.
CFI Innovation Fund
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds Canadian university research infrastructure through strategic national awards to strengthen real-world implementation.
DARPA DSO Disruptioneering
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Supports rapid United States exploratory defense research through fast-distributed projects and compact delivery agreements.
Quantum secured tactical networks
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build quantum-secured software-defined tactical network technology for EU armed forces.
Continuation of Solicitation for the DOE Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Supports unsolicited basic research proposals across all Office of Science thematic areas in the United States.
DOE Office of Science Open Solicitation
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Connects research teams and institutions for DOE Office of Science Solicitation in artificial intelligence, energy systems, and fusion research.
Early Independence: Ernest Rutherford Fellowships 2026
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for early-career researchers building an independent STFC research niche.
Enabling Technologies for Resilient R&D Supply Chains in Quantum Technologies
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German consortia building enabling tech for quantum computing and sensing.
Grand Challenge on Quantum Sensors for Inertial Navigation
🇳🇴EuroHPC JU · European Union
Funds a coordination action that benchmarks quantum-sensor navigation technology and builds an investment-ready roadmap for EIB follow-on funding.