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Advanced Materials grants in Australia

Explore Advanced Materials grants for companies in Australia. This list brings together funding for novel materials, composites, nanomaterials, coatings and materials science from Australian innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Australia, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Advanced Materials in Australia come first.

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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation logo
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CSIRO RUIC matched-funding voucher

🇦🇺CSIRO · Australia

Funds Australian Queensland businesses to co-develop projects with regional universities under matching support.

AUD 10K – AUD 50K
Department of Industry, Science and Resources logo
Between cycles

Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII)

🇦🇺DISR · Australia

Funds Australian startups and SMEs to solve government-nominated challenges with new tech.

AUD 1M
Austrade logo
Between cycles

Export Market Development Grant (EMDG)

🇦🇺Austrade · Australia

Reimburses Australian businesses for a share of their eligible marketing and promotion spend when they sell or plan to sell products overseas.

AUD 20K – AUD 80K
Austrade logo
Between cycles

Export Market Development Grants (EMDG)

🇦🇺Austrade · Australia

Pays Australian exporters and their representative bodies between $20,000 and $80,000 a year in matched funding to market and promote their goods and services in international markets, with the maximum set by their export-readiness tier.

AUD 20K – AUD 80K
Australian Taxation Office logo
Between cycles

Australia R&D Tax Incentive

🇦🇺ATO · Australia

Funds Australian companies through tax incentives that reward innovation investment and reduce financial risk.

AUD 150M
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Funds three-year fellowships for early-career researchers across all disciplines except medical research with salary and project support.

AUD 50K
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Discovery Projects

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Funds Australian university teams developing long-term, university-led research through a two-stage concept pathway.

AUD 30K – AUD 500K
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Future Fellowships

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Supports four-year fellowships for mid-career researchers in non-medical disciplines aligned with national science priorities.

AUD 60K
Australian Research Council logo
Closed

ARC Linkage Projects

🇦🇺ARC · Australia

Funds Australian universities and industry in co-funded projects with shared research contributions and partnership.

AUD 50K – AUD 300K
Department of Energy and Economic Diversification (DEED), Government of Western Australia logo
Closed

Innovation Booster Grant 2026

🇦🇺DEED · Australia

Funds WA early-stage founders and startups up to $50,000 to commercialise an innovation.

AUD 50K
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation logo
Discontinued

CSIRO On Accelerate

🇦🇺CSIRO · Australia

Supports Australian science-based startups with six-month acceleration, mentorship, and early-stage equity from CSIRO pathways.

AUD 66K – AUD 132K
Army Materiel Command (AMC) logo
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US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Broad Agency Announcement

AMC · United States

Funds Army research proposals across soldier feeding, protection, biomechanics and training technology on a rolling basis.

DefenseAdvanced Materials+1
Feb'30
Breakthrough Energy logo
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BE Fellows — Explorer

Breakthrough Energy · United States

Funds early climate research by university experts, enabling high-upside experiments before ventures are spun out.

Climate TechEnergy Tech+3
$50K – $250K
UK Defence Innovation (formerly DASA) logo
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Defence Rapid Impact

UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom

Funds innovators from any country developing near-term defence technology prototypes at TRL 6 or 7 through the MOD Defence Innovation Fund.

DefenseAI+9
£350K
28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital) logo
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EIT Digital Open Innovation Factory

28DIGITAL · European Union

Funds European digital startups at TRL 4-5 seeking co-development with industry partners through EIT Digital's open innovation matching platform.

AIBiotech+10
Lockheed Martin Corp logo
Open

Lockheed Martin Ventures

Lockheed Martin Corp · United States

Invests in hardware, aerospace, and defense innovation founders through a corporate venture platform tied to Lockheed Martin.

DefenseSpace+4
$500K – $50M
MIT.nano logo
Open

MIT.nano Industry Consortium / Foundry Access

MIT.nano · United States

Provides Massachusetts startup teams access to advanced prototyping and fabrication through MIT.nano collaboration.

SemiconductorsAdvanced Materials+3
$50K – $500K
GIC — Government of Singapore Investment Corporation logo
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Singapore GIC Strategic Investments

GIC · Singapore

Offers sovereign-backed strategic capital programs for Singapore growth ventures in innovation and digital technology.

AIEnergy Tech+1
SGD 10M – SGD 1B
UK Defence Innovation (formerly DASA) logo
Between cycles

Open Call for Innovation

UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom

Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.

DefenseAI+11
Breakthrough Energy logo
Between cycles

BE Fellows — Innovator Fellowship Cohort 7

Breakthrough Energy · United States

Supports climate founders with catalytic funding and mentoring to advance early technology ideas into deployment-ready ventures.

Climate TechEnergy Tech+3
$0 – $500K
Novo Nordisk Foundation logo
Between cycles

Challenge Programme — Earth-Abundant Materials

NNF · Denmark

Supports interdisciplinary teams developing earth-abundant materials for climate and heavy industry technologies.

Advanced MaterialsEnergy Tech+2
DKK 30M – DKK 75M
Novo Nordisk Foundation logo
Between cycles

Challenge Programme — Hybrid Bio-Electrocatalysis

NNF · Denmark

Supports interdisciplinary teams exploring bioelectrocatalytic processes for sustainable materials and chemistry technologies.

Synthetic BiologyAdvanced Materials+2
DKK 30M – DKK 75M
Deep Tech MEA logo
Between cycles

Deep Tech Geeks Startups Competition

Deep Tech MEA · United Arab Emirates

Awards a free exhibition pod, travel and mentorship to deep-tech scale-ups that place in this annual competition at GITEX North Star in Dubai.

AIRobotics+4
Deep Tech Atelier logo
Between cycles

Deep Tech Startup Pitch Competition

Deep Tech Atelier · Latvia

Lets early-stage deep tech founders worldwide pitch investors live for partner prizes in Riga.

DefenseMedtech+4

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