Funding programs
Recurring funding programs behind individual grant calls — grants, loans, tax credits, and equity instruments from federal agencies, foundations, and corporates. Filter by country, instrument, or submission cadence.
Showing 25-48 of 3,840 programs
National Research Excellence Programme (NKKP)
🇭🇺NKFIH · Hungary
Runs Hungary's flagship research grant programme fundamental applied research across all disciplines the renewed successor OTKA.
Central Innovation Programme for SMEs (Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand, ZIM)
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German enterprises with innovation aid for projects, partnerships, and commercial pathways.
EIC Pathfinder
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Offers frontier research in the European Union through grants for foundational development across disciplines.
ESA Business Applications Space Solutions (BASS)
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Supports Co funding for space enabled downstream applications Kick starts plus periodic thematic calls.
FRIPRO — Free Investigator-Driven Research
🇳🇴RCN · Norway
Supports Norway's largest competition research grant for researcher-led projects at Norwegian research organisations across all scientific disciplines.
Challenge Programme
🇩🇰NNF · Denmark
Funds Challenge Programme to support large-scale themed consortium grants high-ambition research on annually defined societal scientific challenges.
Clean Transportation Program
🇺🇸CEC · United States
Funds California transportation projects advancing low-emission infrastructure, including hydrogen and alternative fuel pathways.
CPRIT Product Development Research
🇺🇸CPRIT · United States
Backs CPRIT Product Development Research to support non-dilutive company grants texas cancer therapeutics devices diagnostics new technologies revenue-sharing.
Defence Industry Development Grants Program
🇦🇺DISR · Australia
Funds Australian firms developing sovereign defence capabilities through grant support and capability upgrades.
EUDIS (EU Defence Innovation Scheme)
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Backs small and medium-sized enterprises and start-ups entering European defence markets through grants and equity.
Eureka Network Projects
🇦🇹EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports international Eureka collaboration through broad thematic project partnerships worldwide.
Health Research Training Awards
🇨🇦CIHR (Canadian Institutes of H · Canada
Funds training, transition, and stipend pathways for developing health researchers through portfolio programs.
IFIC — Financial Instrument for Innovation & Competitiveness (Instrumento Financeiro para a Inovação e Competitividade)
🇵🇹BPF · Portugal
Funds Portuguese small and medium enterprises for competitiveness improvements in technology adoption and industrial renewal.
Interregional Innovation Investments Instrument
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Supports EU Cohesion fund bridging less developed regions into deep tech value chains small businesses, consortium grants.
Johnson & Johnson QuickFire Challenges
🇺🇸J&J Innovation · United States
Offers themed global challenges for life and health technology innovators with scalable prize opportunities.
NIDHI (National Initiative for Developing & Harnessing Innovations)
🇮🇳DST India · India
Supports startup incubation and innovation ecosystem development through network of Indian incubators.
PIPE — Innovative Research in Small Businesses (Pesquisa Inovativa em Pequenas Empresas)
🇧🇷FAPESP · Brazil
Supports Non dilutive innovation development grants for small businesses conducting innovative research in São Paulo state.
SIGMA Programme
🇨🇿TA CR · Czechia
Funds applied research, industrial partnerships and commercialisation projects across Czech enterprises and research organisations.
Training Awards
🇺🇸Breakthrough T1D · United States
Provides Fellowships and career awards to build the next generation Type Diabetes researchers.
UEFISCDI Transnational & ERA-NET Calls
🇷🇴UEFISCDI · Romania
Funds UEFISCDI Transnational and ERA-NET Calls, romania's national co-funding for ERA-NET and European partnership calls per call for international research consortia.
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Funds future-leader fellowships in the United Kingdom for high-potential researchers and innovators across universities and industry.
Virginia Venture Partners (VVP)
🇺🇸VIPC · United States
Invests Virginia Venture Partners to support seed-stage grants convertible notes equity virginia deep-tech startups.
Army xTech Competitions
🇺🇸Army · United States
Helps Army xTech Competitions for Prize competitions that connect startups with United States Army technology needs.
BARDA DRIVe
🇺🇸BARDA · United States
Offers early health-security startup support through a fast track mechanism and innovation hubs for proof of concept.