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Grants

QRDI Council national research and innovation calls

مجلس البحوث والتطوير والابتكار

Status

Usually opens in February and March

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Closed

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
800,000 QAR

Themed calls run with partner ministries and corporates. Recent cycles awarded QAR 150,000 to QAR 300,000 for short six-to-twelve-month programmes and QAR 500,000 to QAR 800,000 per year for multi-year programmes (for example AI for Qatar, SEHATech, Path Towards Precision Medicine).

Funder

Qatar Research, Development and Innovation (QRDI) Council

public · national

Deadline: One call a year — The most recent published cycle had submission deadlines of 18 February 2026 and 11 March 2026 across roughly a dozen themed programmes.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
major

Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.

Who can apply

Most calls require a Qatar-based host institution or corporate partner; startups typically participate as part of a consortium.

How to apply

  1. Register on the QRDI InnoLight portal.
  2. Select the open themed programme matching your research area.
  3. Submit the proposal by the cycle deadline.
  4. Peer review and award.

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://qrdi.org.qa/en-US/

"Each award is up to QAR 500,000 per year for a duration of up to two years - Submission Deadline: 11 March 2026"

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found

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