Grant directory
Browse the public catalog of deep-tech grants from federal agencies, multinationals, foundations and corporates. For personalized eligibility, use the matcher.
Showing 1-24 of 938 grants
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
BBSRC-STFC DeepTech Catalyst Bio
🇬🇧STFC · United Kingdom
Supports United Kingdom startups working on biological-in-nature technologies through BBSRC STFC DeepTech Catalyst Bio to move ideas toward practical impact.
CBE JU: Nutritional Food Ingredient Resilience
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M innovation project that scales alternative proteins, oils, fibres or specialty carbohydrates into safe, accepted food ingredients.
CBE JU: Safe Bio-Based Ingredients for Home & Personal Care
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M project that turns bio-based chemicals and ingredients into safer, sustainable home and personal care products at industrial scale.
Early independence: BBSRC fellowships: full stage
🇬🇧BBSRC · United Kingdom
A fellowship for independent bioscience research in a host laboratory.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Biotech Biorefineries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M industrial project that scales biotechnology into sustainable biorefineries and market-ready bio-based products.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Industrial & Environmental Biotech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €4M lump-sum grants for industrial and environmental biotech — synthetic biology, gene editing, biofoundries — not health biotech or biofuels.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Marine Bio-Based Products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M projects turning marine organisms — algae, fungi, invertebrates — into safer bio-based replacements for adhesives, coatings and chemicals.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Residual Biomass Biotech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €7M projects that turn farm, forestry, aquatic and urban bio-waste into market-ready chemicals, materials and ingredients.
Wellcome Discovery Awards
🇬🇧Wellcome · United Kingdom
Funds established United Kingdom investigators in bold health research with long-term flexible scientific support.
Creative alliances: Fostering global partnerships in cultural policies and CCI innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays international research consortiums roughly €3-3.75 million to build cross-regional creative-industry and cultural-diplomacy partnerships between Europe and world regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.
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.
ERC Proof of Concept Grants
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.
Globalstars
EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds joint research and development projects that pair an organisation from a EUREKA member country with an independent partner in a market outside the network, such as Japan, Taiwan, India or Uruguay.
Governing global commons sustainably
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to develop policy solutions for the sustainable, science-informed governance of shared global resources like the climate, biodiversity and outer space.
Government in transition — how governments change the way they work and prepare the civil service for the future
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study how EU and Associated Country governments are reinventing internal operations and preparing their civil services for the future.
Horizon EIE: Technology Transfer Offices
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.
Making Europe a global magnet for talent — attracting and retaining non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.
MIT R&D Cooperation Projects
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch SME teams doing joint R&D to develop or renew products, processes or services.
Safeguarding linguistic diversity in Europe
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €5-5.75 million to document, map and help safeguard Europe's regional, minority and endangered languages.
Santander X Portugal Award - Startup
🇵🇹Santander X · Portugal
Splits a €20,000 prize among three Portuguese startups, plus a spot in the global final.
Tackling child poverty and ensuring disadvantaged children's access to Early Childhood Education and Care
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to produce EU-specific evidence on the cost of child poverty and how to close gaps in disadvantaged children's access to early childhood education.
UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration Accounts 2027
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.
Michigan State Trade Expansion Program (MI-STEP)
🇺🇸MSF · United States
Funds Michigan small businesses pursuing export growth through pre-approved trade reimbursements.