Advanced Manufacturing grants
Explore grants for advanced manufacturing companies. This directory includes funding for additive manufacturing, robotics and automation, digital production, process innovation and supply-chain resilience, from industry ministries, manufacturing institutes, research councils and regional development programs.
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Navy SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Funds United States naval small-business ideas for ship, aviation, undersea, and autonomy-related feasibility studies.
Navy SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Supports United States naval innovation teams transitioning validated concepts into stronger prototypes and mission-ready solutions.
Regional Clean Hydrogen Hubs
🇺🇸OCED · United States
Funds U.S. clean hydrogen hubs that demonstrate production, processing, delivery, storage, and end-use networks.
STEP / Critical and Emerging Technologies — 14 (Tecnologie Critiche ed Emergenti)
🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy
Funds Italian companies in southern regions to develop critical innovation in climate, health, and materials.
'Proof of market' to improve valorisation and commercialisation of Horizon generated R&I results
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to 25 small consortia EUR 200,000 each to test the commercial exploitation potential of results that already came out of earlier Horizon Europe or Horizon 2020 Cluster 4 projects.
28DIGITAL Venture Incubation Program
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Offers European deep-tech startups a competitive incubation route with early cash support and growth-focused follow-up.
Accelerated Knowledge Transfer Partnerships 6
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Supports rapid partnerships between United Kingdom businesses and academic teams to transfer innovation into commercialization.
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.
Advance Queensland Private Sector Pathways Program
🇦🇺QLD Government · Australia
Funds Queensland small and medium enterprises running co-funded innovation trials with corporate partners.
Advanced AI for Process Industries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds generative, foundation and agentic AI for faster materials development, safer plants and more efficient industrial processes.
Advanced manufacturing for key products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds around six projects, each worth EUR 6 to 8 million, to build manufacturing technology for components Europe risks losing to overseas suppliers.
Advanced manufacturing technologies for leadership of EU manufacturers in products for the net-zero industry
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds manufacturers developing advanced production processes — additive manufacturing, joining, forming, precision machining — for components used in net-zero technologies.
AEA Ignite — Next (seed)
🇦🇺Dept of Education AU · Australia
Supports Australian university researchers in early commercialisation by advancing proof-of-concept work toward market application.
AEA Ignite Round 3
🇦🇺Dept of Education AU · Australia
Provides research teams and institutions for AEA Ignite in artificial intelligence, agriculture innovation, and materials science.
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 for Smarter Factory Operations
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds factory AI that adapts production in real time, improves quality, and cuts scrap, energy use and carbon emissions.
AI Solutions Development — Call 02-124-K
🇱🇹Inovacijų Agentūra · Lithuania
Funds AI product development in Lithuanian industry and ICT companies through enterprise grant support.
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.
American-Made Challenges: Perovskite Startup Prize
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Paid new US for-profit companies cash and lab vouchers to move perovskite solar-cell research out of the lab and into commercial manufacturing.
American-Made PRIME Prize
🇺🇸SETO · United States
Funds U.S. solar manufacturers and innovators registering photovoltaic modules and inverters with the EPEAT ecolabel through a prize competition.
American-Made Solar Prize Round 1
🇺🇸DOE · United States
Awarded up to $500,000 cash and lab vouchers to solar-manufacturing innovators.
Applied Research for a Competitive Food Sector and Sustainable Transitions
🇸🇪Formas · Sweden
Funds Swedish food-sector partners developing applied research for sustainable processing and competitiveness.
Apply AI: Next-Generation Agile and Intelligent Robotics Platforms for Industrial and Service Applications
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays two European projects between EUR 12 million and EUR 13 million each to build reconfigurable, safe robot platforms for industrial and service settings, using new materials and sensing.
Apply AI: Robotics for Manufacturing — Advancing Core Skills through Technical Challenges
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one European consortium EUR 18 million to run a three-stage robotics competition, with automotive as a required use case, that re-grants up to EUR 3 million per finalist team to smaller developers who compete in it.