Funding programs

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Funds Sweden-based consortia improving resource efficiency, circularity and climate performance in the metals and minerals industry through the Impact Innovation programme.

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Pays CHF 30,000 plus in-kind support to a standout Swiss innovation project.

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Offers the winning Swiss wealth-management startup a venture-clienting deal with Sword.

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Awards cash and in-kind prizes to Ontario life-science innovators who pitch a plan.

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Pays a single coordination project to link up national and regional governments working on industrial-decarbonisation funding, roadmaps and strategy.

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Paid one European project EUR 3 million to test Industry 5.0 transformation methods in regional industrial ecosystems, re-granting up to EUR 60,000 per third-party activity.

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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.

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Funds late-stage clinical trials of treatments and diagnostics for six climate-linked diarrhoeal disease pathogens in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.

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Funds research projects worth EUR 3.4 million each that study gender-based violence at work, in sport or online.

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Funds clinical and pre-clinical research that pins down the causes of, and builds better diagnostics and treatments for, medical conditions that are common but poorly understood, such as ME/CFS, autism, gynaecological diseases and low back pain.

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Funds research into early detection tools, including AI-driven prediction, and management strategies that slow the growth of pesticide resistance in farming and forestry.

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Funds research teaching small teams of autonomous robots to maneuver tactically in complex, adversarial military environments.

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Funds research that fixes one clear competitiveness bottleneck in a renewable energy technology’s value chain, from feedstock to end use.

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Awards up to $13.1 million across three phases to US-based teams developing novel technologies that target RNA to treat human disease.

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Paid up to $20,000 each to as many as 25 winners in Phase I of a three-phase NIH challenge for technologies that target RNA directly to treat human disease.

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Funds Pittsburgh-based CMU alumni and faculty founders building high-growth startups with non-dilutive capital and mentorship.

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Backs Indian deeptech startups in space, defence and drones with mentorship and pilots.

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Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.

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Pays innovators up to $100,000 in vouchers to work with a U.S. national laboratory.

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Funds Indian telecom startups and MSMEs up to 80% (max Rs.50 lakh) to pilot and validate solutions.

Gives winning deep-tech startups fast-track access to Accenture's enterprise clients, up to $25,000 in non-dilutive AWS cloud credits, and NVIDIA Inception perks, with no equity taken just to apply.

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Supports tech and digital businesses moving into South Yorkshire or taking their first physical office in the region.

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Offers Nordic startups exhibition space, lodging and investor access at Almedalen.