SPRIND Challenges
Funds multi-stage competitions selecting teams pursuing disruptive deep-tech breakthroughs.
SPRIND Challenges are open competitions targeting a specific disruptive breakthrough — each Challenge defines the problem, opens applications, then selects up to 10 teams for Stage 1 funding. Teams that meet milestones are invited to Stage 2 and Stage 3, with award sizes escalating sharply at each gate. Typical three-stage structure runs 24 months total.
Anyone — individuals, duos, startups, univ…
Each grant below is a distinct funding opportunity with its own eligibility, scope, and deliverables.
Runs themed competitions in which teams compete over several stages to solve one defined technical problem.
Funds teams in Germany through a continuous hormone-monitoring challenge for advanced sensor development.
Funds German teams through frontier innovation programmes for AI and advanced prototype development.
Funds European teams building complete multi-purpose robots or the breakthrough hardware inside them.
Funds teams building use cases where quantum sensing makes an existing system measurably better.
Funds teams hunting for entirely new quantum systems that could be used as sensors.
Funds teams that curate a valuable health dataset and prove its worth with a working AI application.