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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.

Showing 169-192 of 365 grants

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Optimising Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP) Manufacturing

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds industry-academia consortia that refine and scale up the manufacturing process for one class of cell or gene therapy, from quality control through to deployment.

BiotechAdvanced Manufacturing+1
€6M – €8M
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Optimising resource use in the circular economy

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds around nine projects, each worth EUR 5 to 8 million, to recover secondary raw materials from industrial waste and end-of-use products.

Advanced ManufacturingAdvanced Materials
€5M – €8M
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Phase out fossil fuel in energy intensive industries through the efficient integration of renewable energy sources

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds a physical demonstration that phases out fossil fuel from a heating-heavy industrial process using local renewable energy integration.

Energy TechAdvanced Manufacturing
€7.5M
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Physical and cognitive augmentation in advanced manufacturing

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds research into wearable and cognitive augmentation technology that supports factory workers and makes manufacturing jobs safer and more human-centric.

Advanced ManufacturingRobotics
€4M – €6M
CJ
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Retrofitting of (bio)refineries industrial plants towards higher-value bio-based products

🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union

Funds retrofitting an existing industrial or biorefinery plant to produce higher-value bio-based chemicals or materials than its old process line.

BiotechAdvanced Manufacturing
€20M
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Robust and trustworthy GenerativeAI for Robotics and industrial automation (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics & Made in Europe Partnerships)

🇮🇸European Commission · European Union

Funds two projects, worth up to EUR 45 million each, to build generative AI foundation models for robotics or manufacturing, with at least EUR 10 million of each project re-granted to third-party companies.

RoboticsAdvanced Manufacturing+1
€40M – €45M
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Safe and clean processing technologies and products

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds research into industrial processing technologies that cut the use of hazardous substances and reduce health, safety and environmental risks beyond CO2.

Advanced ManufacturingAdvanced Materials
€6M – €8M
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Safe and sustainable alternatives to PFAS

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds around four projects, each worth up to EUR 7 million, to develop non-PFAS chemicals for electronics, construction, textiles and automotive parts.

Advanced MaterialsAdvanced Manufacturing
€7M
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Safer Alternatives to Industrial Substances

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds industrial substitutes for substances of concern, covering design, production, manufacturing integration and market uptake.

Advanced MaterialsAdvanced Manufacturing
€6M – €7.5M
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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.

MobilityAdvanced Manufacturing
€10.5M
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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.

Energy TechAdvanced Manufacturing
€5M – €9M
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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.

Advanced MaterialsAdvanced Manufacturing
€14M
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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.

Advanced Manufacturing
€3M
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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.

Energy TechAdvanced Materials+1
€8M
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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.

Advanced ManufacturingEnergy Tech
€2M
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UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration Accounts 2027

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.

Sep'26
UK Research and Innovation logo
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Doctoral focal award: UKRI venture doctorates: outline stage

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Funding for entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training and venture creation.

Oct'26
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Young Person's Start Up Grant

🇬🇧Welsh Gov · United Kingdom

Supports young entrepreneurs in Wales with seed assistance and mentoring for first business launch.

£2KMar'27
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Access EuroHPC supercomputers for research computing

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Apply for time on Europe's most powerful supercomputers. No cash — compute.

AI
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Collaborate with researchers in Brazil

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Joint UK-Brazil research with São Paulo-based researchers.

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Collaborate with researchers in Luxembourg

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Joint UK-Luxembourg collaborative research applications through participating councils.

UK Research and Innovation logo
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Collaborate with researchers in Norway

🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom

Funding for Norway-based project co-leads in UK-led research applications.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
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EPSRC Programme grant full proposal

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Flexible funding for strategic engineering and physical sciences research programmes.

Invest Northern Ireland logo
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Grant for Research & Development

🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom

Funds Northern Ireland businesses developing products, processes, or services through Invest NI R&D grants.

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