Advanced Materials grants
Explore grants for advanced materials companies. This directory covers funding for new materials discovery, composites, nanomaterials, coatings, critical materials and sustainable substitutes, from research councils, innovation agencies and industrial programs that fund materials from the lab to production.
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Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇪EIS · Estonia
Administers research teams and institutions for Eurostars in biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and hardware.
FWF ASTRA Awards — Next
🇦🇹FWF · Austria
Supports Austrian postdoctoral excellence through advanced awards for innovative research in science and engineering.
Mitacs Accelerate Global Excellence Award
🇨🇦Mitacs · Canada
Invests in exceptional international postdoctoral researchers relocating to Canada for industry-partnered research.
Starbucks Global Cold Cup Innovation Challenge
Starbucks · United States
Pays up to $50,000 to solvers who invent a plastic-free, compostable cold-cup material.
ARPA-E SCALEUP Ready
🇺🇸ARPA-E · United States
Funds United States alumni technologies moving from prior support into commercial pilots and scale-out activity.
FWF Specialized Research Groups
🇦🇹FWF · Austria
Supports research groups in Austria building transdisciplinary projects for long-term scientific impact.
Globalstars call with Taiwan
🇹🇼EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports European and Taiwan teams building international technology and research alliances through Eureka Globalstars channels.
Horizon Batteries: EV Recycling Pilot with India
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €9.4M lithium-ion battery recycling pilot line in India, matched to a separately funded Indian project on the same schedule.
Horizon Batteries: Sustainable Electrode Materials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds four €7.1M projects that make battery electrode materials cleaner to produce — via greener refining or plant-based sourcing instead of mined graphite.
Horizon Clean Industry: Market-Ready Climate Tech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €15–25M lump-sum projects led by industry to mature energy, power, storage, fuels or CCU solutions from TRL 6 to market-ready deployment.
Horizon Euratom: Nuclear Materials Partnership (CONNECT-NM) Phase 2
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €15M continuation of the CONNECT-NM nuclear materials partnership, open only to its sitting coordinator and any partners it adds.
Horizon Euratom: Nuclear Safety & Long-Term Operation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €3M consortium projects that keep Europe's ageing nuclear fleet running safely, from crack detection to swapping in alternative reactor fuel.
Horizon Euratom: SMR & Advanced Reactor Safety
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds five €3M projects that test the safety of next-generation reactors and their fuel, from small modular designs to Gen-IV concepts.
Horizon Euratom: Stable Isotopes for Nuclear Medicine
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €2M project to build EU production of medical isotopes like ytterbium-176, cutting reliance on Russian supply for cancer radiopharmaceuticals.
Horizon Wind: Breakthrough to Demonstration
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €93M wind-energy project — split across breakthrough R&D, technology validation, and at least three real-world demonstrations.
KIEM HighTech
🇳🇱Holland High Tech · Netherlands
Provides exploratory collaboration funding for Dutch teams linking academics and industry across photonics, climate, transport, and high-tech material systems.
KIEM HighTech
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch industry-linked applied research pilots and prototype development in high-technology fields.
MAESTRO 18
🇵🇱NCN · Poland
Funds advanced Polish research groups with ambitious scientific goals in frontier topics.
Measurement Science and Engineering (MSE) Research Grant Programs
NIST · United States
Funds NIST partnership research across metrology, nanotechnology, AI and advanced manufacturing, open to almost any non-federal organisation except individuals.
PowerUp Net Zero – Open Call for Innovation Projects
🇪🇺Piemonte Innova · Italy
Funds SME consortia up to €120,000 to pilot and test net-zero technologies.
Proof of Concept (Dokazivanje inovativnog koncepta) (PoC9 — First PK.1.1.17)
🇭🇷HAMAG-BICRO · Croatia
Funds concept-stage Croatian innovations by supporting technical validation, protection work, and proof activities before scale-up.
SONATA BIS 16
🇵🇱NCN · Poland
Funds established Polish researchers for team-based basic science projects connecting lab discovery to excellence.
Strategic Mobility
🇸🇪SSF · Sweden
Supports cross-sector researcher mobility in Sweden through exchanges among academia, industry, and public institutions.