Advanced Manufacturing grants in Ireland
Explore Advanced Manufacturing grants for companies in Ireland. This list brings together funding for additive manufacturing, automation, digital factories and industrial innovation from Irish innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in Ireland, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Advanced Manufacturing in Ireland come first.
Showing 73-96 of 338 grants
28DIGITAL Venture Incubation Program
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Offers European deep-tech startups a competitive incubation route with early cash support and growth-focused follow-up.
Advanced AI for Process Industries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds generative, foundation and agentic AI for faster materials development, safer plants and more efficient industrial processes.
Advanced manufacturing for key products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds around six projects, each worth EUR 6 to 8 million, to build manufacturing technology for components Europe risks losing to overseas suppliers.
Advanced manufacturing technologies for leadership of EU manufacturers in products for the net-zero industry
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds manufacturers developing advanced production processes — additive manufacturing, joining, forming, precision machining — for components used in net-zero technologies.
AI for Smarter Factory Operations
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds factory AI that adapts production in real time, improves quality, and cuts scrap, energy use and carbon emissions.
Apply AI: Next-Generation Agile and Intelligent Robotics Platforms for Industrial and Service Applications
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays two European projects between EUR 12 million and EUR 13 million each to build reconfigurable, safe robot platforms for industrial and service settings, using new materials and sensing.
Apply AI: Robotics for Manufacturing — Advancing Core Skills through Technical Challenges
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one European consortium EUR 18 million to run a three-stage robotics competition, with automotive as a required use case, that re-grants up to EUR 3 million per finalist team to smaller developers who compete in it.
Bio-based drop-ins/smart drop-in platform chemicals, via cost-effective, sustainable and resource-efficient conversion of biomass
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds a full-scale biorefinery that produces bio-based drop-in platform chemicals able to compete directly with their fossil-based equivalents.
CELTIC-NEXT Autumn Call 2026
🇦🇹CELTIC-NEXT · Global / Multinational
Funds international ICT R&D consortia through Eureka's national funding schemes.
Chips JU — Power Electronics
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds European semiconductor consortia developing power electronics for advanced hardware.
Circular Economy Kick-Start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 75% of a 6-month study, up to 60,000 euros, for circular-economy ideas using space data.
Circular Production for Urban Manufacturers
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds city-based manufacturers to demonstrate circular production, lower material use and spread clean industrial practices.
Cost-effective and robust continuous biotech bio-based processes
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds converting a batch biotech process for making bio-based chemicals or materials into a continuous process with higher productivity and lower cost.
Cost-efficient and reliable designs towards gigawatt-scale electrolytic hydrogen production plants
🇪🇺Clean Hydrogen JU · European Union
Funds research into cost-efficient, reliable plant designs for building gigawatt-scale electrolytic hydrogen production.
Coupling circularity and climate mitigation in industrial sites and their cities and regions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds demonstration projects that combine circular-economy and climate-mitigation actions across at least three industrial sites and their host cities.
Data Space for Manufacturing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds up to three projects that collect large industrial datasets and build the legal and technical rails to let AI developers train manufacturing-focused models on them.
Demonstration of an Ultra-Efficient Rear Fuselage and Empennage and Its Integrated Industrial System enabling EIS2035 for the SMR Aircraft
🇪🇺Clean Aviation JU · European Union
Funds an innovation project that develops and demonstrates an ultra-efficient rear fuselage and empennage, plus its production system, for an SMR aircraft.
Demonstration of reduced energy use and optimised flexible energy supply for industrial bio-based systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds demonstrations that cut energy use and add renewable, flexible power supply to bio-based industrial plants.
Development and testing of Extended Producer Responsibility schemes (EPR) within the priority Circular Economy Action Plan value chains
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds pilots of Extended Producer Responsibility schemes and digital product passports for construction, ICT, furniture, mattress or carpet makers.
Digitally enabled local-for-local textile and apparel production
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Paid two European projects EUR 5 million each to demonstrate on-demand, digitally driven local textile manufacturing, re-granting up to EUR 60,000 per SME third party involved.
EDF Development Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds defence technology validation and prototype demonstration across digital transformation, air defence, and space integration.
EIT Manufacturing BoostUp! 2022
🇪🇺EIT Manufacturing · European Union
Awards €20,000 cash prizes to startups already piloted with big manufacturing corporates.
Embedding upcycling technologies into viable business
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds around five projects, each worth EUR 8 to 12 million, to turn end-of-life industrial waste into new raw materials at commercial scale.
Energetic components
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Pays EU defence manufacturers to expand production capacity for propellants, explosives, warheads and other energetic munitions components.