Grant directory

Pays a guaranteed $15,000 first prize for an integrated autonomous drone-docking system.

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Funds affordable loitering munitions and small combat drones that can be mass-produced, with cascade funding for smaller tech companies.

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Funds UK organisations up to £1.25 million to build aviation tech for both civil and military use.

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Awards EU deep-tech teams up to €2.5 million in lump-sum grants across two stages.

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Funds research teams and institutions for EIG CONCERT Japan: AI-Powered Robotics Estonian in artificial intelligence and robotics.

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

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Funds city and regional authorities running circular-economy demonstrations across at least two sectors, with private-sector and start-up involvement.

Awards up to INR 1 crore in milestone-based seed funding to IIMK LIVE incubatees.

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Funds deep-tech SMEs and start-ups scaling breakthrough innovations, combining EUR 0.5-12.5 million of funding with business coaching and investor support.

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Funds any deep-tech start-up or SME through the open, bottom-up strand of the EIC Accelerator 2025 call, with no fixed technology theme.

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Funds interdisciplinary research consortia pursuing high-risk, high-gain early-stage deep-tech breakthroughs with EU contributions of EUR 1 million to 4 million.

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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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.