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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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.
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.
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.
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.
Flexible and standardised hydrogen storage system
🇪🇺Clean Hydrogen JU · European Union
Funds an innovation project that builds a modular, standardised hydrogen storage system OEMs can integrate without custom engineering.
From heat-driven processes to the use of mechanical and electric forces
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds industrial demonstrations that replace fossil-heat-driven process steps with electrically driven technologies to cut energy use and emissions.
Green and resilient flexible production processes
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds redesigned industrial processes that can flex output quickly to match variable renewable-energy supply without losing efficiency.
Improving ecodesign of products and development of testing methods for products prioritised under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds development of tests and methods that verify how durable, repairable and recyclable a product actually is, for one of seven priority product groups.
Industrial scale up and circularity pathway for IPV technologies (EUPI-PV Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds pilot production lines and recycling demonstrations that scale up integrated PV (building, vehicle and agri-PV) technologies to market.
Innovation Study Tours 2026
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Pays organisations up to EUR 25,000 to design and run a short innovation study-tour programme.
Innovative Advanced Materials for fast-curing sealants and coatings
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds around five projects, each worth up to EUR 6 million, to develop fast-curing, recyclable coatings and sealants for manufacturing lines.
Innovative manufacturing of wind energy technologies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds demonstrations of new wind-turbine manufacturing methods that raise safety, cut costs and boost European production capacity.
Integrated approaches for remanufacturing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds industrial consortia that develop remanufacturing technology and processes to double the volume of remanufactured components made in the EU.
Integrated use of renewable energy carriers in industrial sites
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into combining multiple renewable energy carriers — electricity, hydrogen, solar heat — at industrial sites to cope with supply fluctuations.
Novel circular business models to enable the just transition to a sustainable and circular economy
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds companies and researchers that build and demonstrate at scale new circular business models — reuse, repair, sharing, product-as-a-service.
Open Topic: Innovative solutions for the sustainable and circular transformation of SMEs
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds open-topic solutions — from AI tools to new business models — that help SMEs cut resource use and comply with green-transition rules.