National Grants & Funding


No. Name Funding Themes Deadline Details
1.0 Common Fund for Commodities (CFC) 26TH Call For Proposals 1st April 2025 Link
2.0 Karandaz Innovation Challenge Fund 2024 5th December 2024 Link
3.0 Igniting University Innovation 2024 1. Provision of Services to Manage Ignite National Incubation Center Karachi
2. Provision of Services to Establish and Manage Ignite National Incubation Center – Lahore
3. Email Security Solution
4. Storage Upgrade
5. Provision of Services of Health Insurance
6. Provision of Co-Working Space for Pakistan Startup Fund and BridgeStart Pakistan
7. Appointment of External Auditor FY 2024-25
8. Provision of Services to Manage Digital Pakistan Cybersecurity Hackathon 2024 Events
9. Provision of Services to Establish & Manage Virtual Production Studio (VPS)
10. Supply of Next Generation Firewall
11. Supply of Next Generation Firewall		 1. 13th March 2024 (15:00)
2. 13th March 2024
3. 18th April 2024
4. 16th May 2024
5. 14th June 2024
6. 8th July 2024
7. 13th August 2024
8. 9th September 2024
9. 4th November 2024
10. 1st November 2024
11. 5th December 2024		 Link
4.0 Ignite Seed Fund 4th Call 2024 Application should be submitted at least three months prior to targeted commencement date of the project Link
5.0 Competitive Research Programme: 7th Call for Concept Proposals to Address Energy Crisis in Pakistan through Indigenous Research and Innovation PKR 10 - 20 million 1. Creation of new knowledge through patent, technology transfer and publications.
2. Development of the new processes/ products/ prototype/ applications through indigenous skills.
3. Value addition in the existing products/ prototype/ processes according to the needs of economy.
4. Pilot Plant Studies.		 12th April 2023 Link
6.0 Ignite Challenge-driven Innovation Funds (CIF) PKR 10 - 100 million 1. Transport and Smart Mobility
2. Health and wellbeing
3. Climate Change and Environment
4. Education and Learning
5. ICT enabled Agriculture
6. Smart Energy
7. Smart Cities and Communities
8. Digital Industries
9. Digital Life
10. Connectivity and Interoperability
11. Safety, Security and Realiability		 19th March 2023 Link
7.0 British Council: Pakistan-UK New Perspectives 2022 GBP 25,000 New Perspectives 31st October 2021 (23:30, PKT) Link
8.0
National Center of GIS and Space Applications (NCGSA) Research Fund" PKR 15 million Research Domains from
https://ncgsa.org.pk/ncgsa-research-fund/ 		23rd April 2021
9.0 National Technology Innovation Fund (NTIF) PKR 25 million 1. Education
2. Internet of Things (IoT)
3. Industrial Biotechnology
4. Energy
5. Information and Communication Technologies
6. Artificial Intelligence
7. Mobile Internet
8. Cloud Technology
9. Autonomous Vehicles
10. Advance Robotics
11. Automation of Knowledge-intensive Work
12. Biological Sciences
13. Next Generation Genomics
14. Regenerative Medicine
15. Material Science
16. Advance Materials
17. Nanotechnology
10.0 Small Grants Programme (SGP) of WWF - Pakistan Link
11.0 COMSTECH-IFS Research Grants Program