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Cash grants

Explore cash grants for companies and research teams. This directory lists non-dilutive funding paid out as a grant, from government innovation agencies, research councils, foundations and corporate programs, for research, product development and scale-up, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing.

Showing 1-24 of 4,982 grants

Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) logo
Open

AI chip demonstrators for EU compute infrastructure

🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union

Pays up to ten European chip companies between EUR 500,000 and EUR 1 million each to build working AI chip prototypes and get them tested on a shared EU evaluation platform.

SemiconductorsAI
€500K – €1MOct'26
Chips Joint Undertaking (Chips JU) logo
Open

AI compute evaluation and deployment platform for EU infrastructure

🇪🇺Chips JU · European Union

Pays one consortium up to EUR 70 million to build a common EU platform for evaluating and deploying European AI chips and racks.

AISemiconductors
€50M – €70MOct'26
Department for Transport logo
Open

Depot Charging Scheme

🇬🇧DfT · United Kingdom

Part-funding depot charging infrastructure for battery-electric commercial fleets.

Energy TechMobility
£1 – £1MOct'26
European Commission logo
Open

Digital Europe Programme

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.

AICybersecurity+3
Oct'26
Innosuisse — Swiss Innovation Agency logo
Open

Flagship Project Call 2026: Resilient and Secure Technologies for Defence and Mobility

🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland

Funds dual-use R&D consortia on defence and mobility resilience technologies.

DefensePhotonics+2
Oct'26
HERIFORGE logo
Open

HERIFORGE Open Call 2

🇨🇾HERIFORGE · European Union

Funds XR projects that tackle cultural-heritage challenges in Cyprus, Poland and Turkiye.

€50KOct'26
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Open

High performance compute resources for EPSRC communities

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Funding for compute hardware serving engineering and physical sciences communities.

AIHardware
Oct'26
UK Research and Innovation logo
Open

Pre-announcement: Trust and confidence in policing: R&I Consortium

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Funding for a consortium to develop and test trust in policing tools.

£2MOct'26
Resnick Sustainability Institute logo
Open

RSI Explorer Grant

🇺🇸RSI / Caltech · United States

Funds high-risk sustainability exploration by Caltech investigators to strengthen real-world implementation.

Climate TechEnergy Tech+3
$150KOct'26
European Innovation Council logo
Open

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Advanced Materials for Miniaturised Energy Harvesting Systems

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Supports developing advanced materials for miniaturised energy harvesters to power IoT and sensor networks autonomously.

Climate TechEnergy Tech+2
€4MOct'26
European Innovation Council logo
Open

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: Biotechnology for Healthy Ageing

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Supports translating decades of ageing biology into biotech or pharma proofs-of-concept that prevent, delay or revert age-related disease.

BiotechMedtech+1
€4MOct'26
European Innovation Council logo
Open

EIC Pathfinder Challenge: DeepRAP — Deep Reasoning, Abstraction and Planning towards trustworthy Cognitive AI

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Supports cognitive AI development focused on trustworthy deep reasoning, abstraction, and planning capabilities.

AICybersecurity
€4MOct'26
Innovate UK logo
Open

Advancing innovation in accelerated cancer diagnosis

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Supporting clinical validation of early cancer diagnostic technologies

MedtechBiotech
Oct'26
Israel-Europe Research & Innovation Directorate (ISERD) logo
Open

EIC Pathfinder Challenges

🇮🇱ISERD · Israel

Funds breakthrough research teams tackling bold technology questions from concept through proof-of-concept under the European Innovation Council framework.

AIEnergy Tech+2
€4MOct'26
European Innovation Council logo
Open

EIC Pathfinder Challenges

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Funds European consortia developing breakthrough solutions across AI, climate, energy, materials, medical, and quantum fields.

AIBiotech+5
€4MOct'26
European Innovation Council logo
Open

EIC Pathfinder Challenges 2026

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Funds deep-tech research consortia with EIC Pathfinder grants up to €4 million.

€4MOct'26
Innovate UK logo
Open

National Materials Innovation Programme: CR&D Rd1

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK-registered businesses collaborating on industrial research into advanced materials, covering up to 70% of project costs from a £12 million pool.

Advanced MaterialsMedtech+1
£500K – £1MOct'26
Alzheimer's Research UK logo
Open

Pilot Award

🇬🇧ARUK · United Kingdom

Funds early dementia science concepts in the United Kingdom with exploratory research support.

BiotechMedtech+1
£100KOct'26
Arthritis UK (formerly Versus Arthritis) logo
Open

Translational Call 2027

🇬🇧Arthritis UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK translational projects developing new technology for people with arthritis.

Medtech
£250KOct'26
EUREKA Network logo
Open

Eurogia2030 - Call 31

🇦🇹EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Funds international low-carbon energy R&D consortia via national agencies.

Energy TechClimate Tech+2
Oct'26
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health logo
Open

NIOSH OSH Training Project Grants

🇺🇸NIOSH · United States

Supports training grants for academic and non academic programs building occupational safety and health workforce capacity.

Medtech
$50K – $250KOct'26
Activate Global logo
Open

Activate Fellowship

🇺🇸Activate · United States

Offers two-year fellowships for first-time hard-tech founders building climate, energy, and biotechnology ventures without equity.

Climate TechEnergy Tech+4
$300KOct'26
European Space Agency logo
Open

BASS Kick-start

🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational

Funds feasibility studies for space-enabled applications in agriculture, climate monitoring, and transport innovation.

SpaceAerospace+5
€75KOct'26
National Research, Development and Innovation Office logo
Open

IPARJOG — IP Protection Support

🇭🇺NKFIH · Hungary

Backs intellectual property protection activities including patent filing and trademark registration across Hungary.

HUF 100K – HUF 7.5MOct'26

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