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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IONOS Cloud Startup Programme
IONOS Cloud · Germany
Gives eligible startups up to €100,000 in IONOS Cloud service credit, usable over as long as 24 months, through its SPARK and ACCELERATE tiers.
Zentrales Innovationsprogramm Mittelstand (ZIM)
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German SME R&D projects, covering up to 60% of eligible costs.
Berlin-Brandenburg Business Plan Competition (BPW)
🇩🇪BPW · Germany
Awards up to €20,000 in prize money to startups founded in Berlin or Brandenburg.
German-Swedish Call for joint R&D projects by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises spring 2026
🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden
Funds joint R&D projects between Swedish and German SMEs in any technology area.
Germany KfW ERP Digital Innovation Loans
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds German enterprises through KfW structures for digital innovation and expansion financing.
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.
Start Up Energy Transition Award 2027
dena · Germany
Awards €10,000 to the winning start-up in each of five energy-transition categories.
Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
NIST · United States
Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.
Minnesota Angel Tax Credit
🇺🇸MN DEED · United States
Funds Minnesota angel investors through a refundable credit for investments in high-technology startups.
SPIE Startup Challenge
SPIE · United States
Pays up to $10,000 to photonics startups pitching at Photonics West 2027.
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)/27 Cohort
Creative Destruction Lab · Canada
Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.
ACHEMA Start-up Award
DECHEMA · Germany
Awards 15,000 Euro plus exhibition space and mentoring to the winning early-stage company at the ACHEMA Start-up Award 2027, for new ventures in chemistry, process engineering or biotechnology.
AI for Industry Challenge
Intrinsic · United States
Pays $180,000 in cash prizes to developer and robotics teams that train an AI model to solve a real electronics-assembly cable-handling problem on Intrinsic's platform.
AI:360 Global Startup Competition 2026
XTC · United States
Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.
Construction Startup Competition
CEMEX Ventures · Mexico
Awards equity-free cash prizes and strategic investment access to ConTech startups pitching to a consortium of ten construction-industry corporate venture arms.
Grand Challenges — Ultralow-Cost Diagnostics and Screening for Low-Income Countries
Gates Foundation · United States
Funds global teams developing diagnostic devices and screening tools that cost approximately $1 per test or near-zero incremental cost per person screened for deployment in low-income countries.
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge (9th Edition)
Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Pays a 100,000-euro equity-free grand prize to early-stage deep tech startups globally.
JST GSC Initiative: International Research Program
JST · Japan
Funds researchers at companies including startups doing R&D aimed at commercialization under JST's Global Startup Campus initiative.
K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC)
MSS · South Korea
Runs a nine-month, government-backed accelerator that helps foreign-founded startups enter and scale in Korea, with prize money for the top 20 teams and further commercialisation grants for the top 8.
LIFE Programme — Environment, Climate and Nature
🇸🇪Naturvårdsverket · Sweden
Funds European companies and organisations developing pilot, demonstration, or best-practice projects in climate, clean energy, environment, or biodiversity.
Make It In Michigan Mobility Prototyping Grant
MSF · United States
Funds companies developing mobility technology across air, ground and sea, with emphasis on autonomous systems and critical domestic supply-chain components.
RF Architectures Applying Photonic Timing and Routing (RAAPTR)
DARPA · United States
Funds three to five teams from a $58 million pool to build defense-grade RF systems that use optical timing instead of conventional microwave generation.
MSCA Doctoral Networks 2026
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.
5th Innowwide Call for Market Feasibility Projects — Autumn 2026
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Pays SMEs a fixed EUR60,000 grant to run a six-month market feasibility project testing whether their innovation can be commercialised in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania.