Grant directory

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Pays EU defence manufacturers to expand production capacity for propellants, explosives, warheads and other energetic munitions components.

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Funds a contractor to build an AI-driven electronic-warfare system that can detect and respond to threats faster than a human operator.

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Funds a contractor to design and prototype a fast, semi-autonomous coastal-defence surface vessel.

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Funds next-generation combat cockpit technology, from wearable displays to AI-assisted decision support for pilots.

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Supports development of portable anti-drone systems for critical security operations.

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Supports United Kingdom business-academia teams through partnerships that build strategic innovation in priority sectors.

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Invests research teams and institutions for ESA VDES Arctic System Study in space technology and defense innovation.

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Supports small and medium defense innovators across Europe through development calls, coaching, and early-stage consortium opportunities.

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Pays deep-tech SMEs in Horizon Europe Widening countries to mature their technology from TRL4 to TRL5/6 and get investment-ready.

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Awards EUR50,000 to a top woman leader from the EIT Community, plus EUR30,000 and EUR20,000 to two runners-up.

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Awards women-led Karnataka startups up to INR 50 lakhs in early-stage seed grant-in-aid.

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Funds one organisation to run youth-led community and entrepreneurship actions across the EU's Outermost Regions.

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Pays a postdoctoral researcher's fellowship at a host organisation in an EU Widening country to help those countries attract and keep research talent.

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Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

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Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

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Pays researchers consolidating their own independent lab up to EUR 2 million over five years for frontier research.

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Pays outstanding researchers up to EUR 7 million for a major scientific challenge a regular ERC grant couldn't fund.

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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.

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Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

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Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to test the commercial or social potential of their funded research.

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Awards ERC grant holders up to EUR 10,000 for outstanding public engagement with their ERC-funded research.

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Pays early-career researchers up to EUR 1.5 million over five years to launch their own independent research team.

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Pays a group of two to four Principal Investigators up to EUR 10 million to jointly tackle a research problem none of them could solve alone.

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Awards $3,000 to one or two Education for Sustainable Development projects that any organization worldwide has run for at least three years.