Grant directory

Funds on-ground or in-orbit demonstration of structural-damage detection and thermo-mechanical monitoring for reusable launch systems.

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Backs space-enabled digital solutions for tracking sensitive and food supply chains.

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Zero-equity co-funding for space-enabled water-resilience monitoring in stressed river basins.

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Shares a $500,000 prize pool among university-founded startups building dual-use defense tech.

Early-stage Earth Observation satellite instrument and hardware development

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Funds AI, digital-twin and IoT tools that make satellite and drone-based environmental monitoring systems cheaper and easier to use.

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Supports United Kingdom atmospheric platform research collaborations focused on resilient high-altitude communication infrastructure.

Pays up to INR 30,000 a month for 12 months to first-time geospatial-tech founders.

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Funds feasibility studies for satellite services that fight environmental crime.

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.