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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Safer Alternatives to Industrial Substances
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds industrial substitutes for substances of concern, covering design, production, manufacturing integration and market uptake.
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.
Young Person's Start Up Grant
🇬🇧Welsh Gov · United Kingdom
Supports young entrepreneurs in Wales with seed assistance and mentoring for first business launch.
Grant for Research & Development
🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom
Funds Northern Ireland businesses developing products, processes, or services through Invest NI R&D grants.
Project Definition
🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom
Funds Northern Ireland businesses planning R&D projects through Invest NI project-definition support.
Technical Development Incentive
🇬🇧Invest NI · United Kingdom
Funds Northern Ireland SMEs using technical service providers through Invest NI innovation support.
Innovate UK EDGE Growth Loans
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds United Kingdom small companies with EDGE growth loans for scalable innovation.
SFC Student Placement Innovation Vouchers
🇬🇧SFC · United Kingdom
Funds Scottish SMEs extending academic collaborations through SFC-backed student placement vouchers.
Access EuroHPC supercomputers for research computing
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Apply for time on Europe's most powerful supercomputers. No cash — compute.