Advanced Manufacturing grants in the Netherlands
Explore Advanced Manufacturing grants for companies in the Netherlands. This list brings together funding for additive manufacturing, automation, digital factories and industrial innovation from Dutch innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in the Netherlands, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Advanced Manufacturing in the Netherlands come first.
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Shipyards of the future (ZEWT Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds deployment of robotics, automation and digital tools in small and medium European shipyards, demonstrated in at least three shipyards.
Smart integration of net zero technologies into Energy Intensive industries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds collaborations between energy-intensive industry and net-zero technology manufacturers that integrate net-zero equipment into real industrial processes.
Solving issues in carbon-neutral iron and steel making processes with diverse input materials of varying quality
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research that solves system-level problems in carbon-neutral iron and steel making caused by variable-quality input materials.
System innovation experimentation for Industry 5.0
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Paid one European project EUR 3 million to test Industry 5.0 transformation methods in regional industrial ecosystems, re-granting up to EUR 60,000 per third-party activity.
Towards commercialisation of Perovskite PV and development of dedicated manufacturing equipment (EUPI-PV Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds development of manufacturing equipment and stability fixes needed to commercialise perovskite solar cells.
Towards human-centric, sustainable and resilient energy-intensive industries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a single coordination project to map Industry 5.0 technologies — wearables, human digital twins, extended reality — for energy-intensive industry workplaces.
MIT R&D Cooperation Projects
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch SME teams doing joint R&D to develop or renew products, processes or services.
Trade Relations Programme (TRP) 2026
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Trade and Innovate NL network members to run export-support activities for Dutch firms.
SME Collectives Sustainable Travel Behaviour (COVER)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch SME representative bodies to make their members' employee commuting greener.
Innovation Credit (Innovatiekrediet)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch firms developing high-risk new products or processes through repayable government loans covering project costs.
WBSO — R&D Tax Credit
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Offers Dutch companies and professionals tax credits to offset payroll costs for qualifying technical and research projects.
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.
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.
SPIE Startup Challenge
SPIE · United States
Pays up to $10,000 to photonics startups pitching at Photonics West 2027.
Start Up Energy Transition Award 2027
dena · Germany
Awards €10,000 to the winning start-up in each of five energy-transition categories.
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.
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 — Cost-Reducing Innovations for Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food
Gates Foundation · United States
Funds global teams developing innovations in protein, lipids, packaging, and manufacturing that reduce the ex-factory unit cost of ready-to-use therapeutic food by at least 30%.
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.