Advanced Manufacturing grants in Germany
Explore Advanced Manufacturing grants for companies in Germany. This list brings together funding for additive manufacturing, automation, digital factories and industrial innovation from German innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in Germany, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Advanced Manufacturing in Germany come first.
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Eureka Network Projects — Germany-Israel
🇩🇪EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports Germany and Israel teams through Eureka Network Projects, enabling paired research groups to solve shared technology needs.
KMU-innovativ: Produktionsforschung
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German SMEs' production-research R&D projects, alone or with partners.
SPRIND Equity Investments & Convertible Loans
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Invests in German deep-tech ventures through shared-equity support with private co-financing and downside risk share.
Industry 4.0 and High Value Manufacturing Kick-Start Activities
🇩🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays up to EUR60K, no equity taken, for space-enabled smart-factory ideas.
Regional Transformation Networks (Module A)
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German companies, associations, universities, and research institutions that build regional automotive-industry transformation networks through BMWE grants.
Transformation Hubs (Module B)
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German companies, associations, universities, and research institutions that operate automotive-industry technology-transfer hubs through BMWE grants.
Horizon Batteries: EV Recycling Pilot with India
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €9.4M lithium-ion battery recycling pilot line in India, matched to a separately funded Indian project on the same schedule.
Horizon Batteries: Sustainable Electrode Materials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds four €7.1M projects that make battery electrode materials cleaner to produce — via greener refining or plant-based sourcing instead of mined graphite.
Horizon Clean Industry: Energy-Intensive Decarbonisation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds eight €15–25M lump-sum projects that turn carbon capture, clean energy and circular production ideas into market-ready industrial demonstrations.
Horizon Clean Industry: Market-Ready Climate Tech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €15–25M lump-sum projects led by industry to mature energy, power, storage, fuels or CCU solutions from TRL 6 to market-ready deployment.
Horizon Energy: Full-Scale Industrial Heat Upgrade
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €9M projects that capture a factory's own waste heat and put it back into the process, proven at a live plant and built for EU-wide reuse.
Horizon Wind: Breakthrough to Demonstration
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €93M wind-energy project — split across breakthrough R&D, technology validation, and at least three real-world demonstrations.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
RFCS Steel Accompanying Measures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds workshops, conferences and knowledge-sharing that support steel-sector research and the just transition of steel communities.
RFCS Steel Pilot and Demonstration Projects
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds pilot and demonstration-scale steel installations that bridge research, innovation and commercialisation, from TRL 4-5 to TRL 7-8.
RFCS Steel Research Projects
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds early-stage steel research, from TRL 1-3 to TRL 4-5, that builds knowledge toward practical steel-industry objectives.
RAMP Joint Transnational Call 2026
🇪🇺RAMP · European Union
Funds transnational raw-materials research projects worth up to €2 million each.
Horizon Batteries: Next-Gen Cell Manufacturing Scale-Up
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €33.3M pilot lines that turn a working battery-cell chemistry into a vehicle-ready pack for one transport mode.
EIC Accelerator Challenge: Boosting the European Critical Raw Materials value chain
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports securing the European critical raw materials value chain across extraction, processing, and strategic substitution.
Interregional Innovation Investments Strand 1
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Connects research teams and institutions for Interregional Innovation Investments Strand in manufacturing, materials science, and agriculture innovation.
Interregional Innovation Investments Strand 2a
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Funds EISMEA Interregional Innovation Investments for small and medium-sized enterprises in developing European regions through cross-border transfer and capability building.
EDF Development Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds defence technology validation and prototype demonstration across digital transformation, air defence, and space integration.
EIC Accelerator — Short Proposal
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.
Platforms and end-products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays European defence-industry consortiums to expand EU production capacity for platforms and end-products such as armoured vehicles, aircraft, radars, naval systems and satellite payloads.