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Advanced Manufacturing grants in the United Kingdom

Explore Advanced Manufacturing grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for additive manufacturing, automation, digital factories and industrial innovation from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Advanced Manufacturing in the United Kingdom come first.

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Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Closed

EPSRC Prosperity Partnerships Round 7

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Supports United Kingdom business-academia teams through partnerships that build strategic innovation in priority sectors.

AIQuantum+7
£500K
Faraday Institution logo
Closed

Faraday Institution PhD & EngD Studentships

🇬🇧Faraday Institution · United Kingdom

Offers fully supported PhD and EngD pathways focused on battery research and electrochemical storage science.

Energy TechAdvanced Materials+1
European Space Agency logo
Closed

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.

Advanced ManufacturingSpace
€60K
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Innovation Loans Round 23

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds United Kingdom late-stage ventures with long-term patient government loans.

AIBiotech+8
£100K – £5M
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP): 2026 – 2027 Round 3

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

A university and a business share a graduate for a project neither could run alone.

Advanced ManufacturingEnergy Tech+3
£75K – £750K
Innovate UK logo
Closed

KTP to Round 2

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds three-way collaboration among universities, companies, and industry experts to translate knowledge into product-led growth.

AIAgritech+7
Innovate UK logo
Closed

National Materials Innovation Programme: Feasibility Studies

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK registered businesses conducting feasibility studies in advanced materials innovation through Innovate UK grants under the National Materials Innovation Programme.

Advanced MaterialsSemiconductors+5
£50K – £100K
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Scaling performance of quantum computing hardware: CR&D

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Collaborative industrial research for quantum computing hardware and associated software.

QuantumHardware+1
£1M – £3.5M
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Scaling Supply Chains for Quantum Enabled Sensing and PNT

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK business-led consortia developing supply chains for quantum enabled sensing and positioning, navigation and timing technologies.

QuantumHardware+4
£4M – £6M
Strathclyde Inspire — University of Strathclyde logo
Closed

Strathclyde Inspire Innovation Challenge

🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom

Supports University of Strathclyde students with early startup ideas through a competition that rewards market-ready commercial thinking.

AIBiotech+5
£10K
Tees Valley Combined Authority logo
Closed

Tees Valley Export Fund

🇬🇧TVCA · United Kingdom

Supports Tees Valley firms entering export markets through the Tees Valley Export Fund.

Advanced ManufacturingEnergy Tech+3
£3K – £10K
Innovate UK logo
Closed

UK-Switzerland Collaborative R&D

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK businesses doing joint R&D in specific technology areas with Swiss partners through Innovate UK bilateral competition rounds.

AIBiotech+10
£450K
Innovate UK logo
Closed

Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Energy Efficiency

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK business-led collaborations developing innovative vessel energy efficiency technologies under the ZEVI 2 clean maritime programme.

Climate TechEnergy Tech+4
£30M
Invest Northern Ireland logo
Closed

Shared Island Sustainability Capital Grant

🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom

Funds Invest NI client businesses decarbonising industrial sites through Shared Island capital grants.

Climate TechEnergy Tech+1
Innovate UK logo
Discontinued

Innovate UK Smart Grants

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds United Kingdom technology ventures across broad sectors through competitive grants for deep technology and innovation.

AgritechAI+13
£25K – £2M
European Innovation Council logo
Open

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.

Advanced MaterialsAdvanced Manufacturing+1
€1M – €12.5MNov'26
EUREKA Network logo
Open

Innowwide — Next

🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Offers market-feasibility support for small companies exploring non-European markets through Europe-wide innovation networks.

AIBiotech+9
€60KDec'26
EUREKA Network logo
Open

SMART 10th Call for Projects

🇦🇹EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Funds advanced-manufacturing R&D projects across EUREKA's member countries.

Advanced Manufacturing
Jan'27
SMART (EUREKA Cluster) logo
Open

SMART 10th Call for Projects

🇦🇹SMART · Global / Multinational

Funds international consortia building advanced-manufacturing R&D projects.

Advanced Manufacturing
Jan'27
EUREKA Network logo
Open

Eureka Network Projects — Permanent

🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Offers open access collaboration through Eureka Network Projects so small enterprises can join international innovation groups.

AIBiotech+12
Israel-Europe Research & Innovation Directorate (ISERD) logo
Open

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships — ISERD)

🇪🇺ISERD · Israel

Supports internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers placed in Israeli institutions to build independent research careers through EU mobility fellowships.

AIBiotech+10
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Human-AI Collaboration for Future Manufacturing

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds €4–6M projects that make human-AI collaboration more inclusive, adaptable and effective on the factory floor.

Advanced ManufacturingAI+2
€4M – €6MFeb'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

Industrial Energy: Renewable Heat and Storage

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds €7–9M projects that replace fossil process energy with renewable heat, electrification and resilient industrial storage.

Energy TechClimate Tech+2
€7M – €9MFeb'27
European Commission logo
Scheduled

AI Robotics Integration for Industry

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds an €18M pilot to make AI-driven industrial robots easier to integrate, safer to deploy and reusable across factories.

RoboticsAI+3
€18MMar'27

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