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.
Showing 25-48 of 1,862 grants
U.S.-Israel Energy Center — Proposals (Second
🇺🇸BIRD Foundation · United States
Supports United States and Israel consortia in fossil energy, energy storage, and energy-water research through the Center of Excellence.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
RFCS Steel Accompanying Measures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds workshops, conferences and knowledge-sharing that support steel-sector research and the just transition of steel communities.
RFCS Steel Big Tickets Under the Steel and Metals Action Plan — Dual-Use
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds large 'Big Ticket' steel research and innovation projects with civil-and-defence dual-use relevance under the EU's steel and metals action plan.
RFCS Steel Pilot and Demonstration Projects
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds pilot and demonstration-scale steel installations that bridge research, innovation and commercialisation, from TRL 4-5 to TRL 7-8.
RFCS Steel Research Projects
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds early-stage steel research, from TRL 1-3 to TRL 4-5, that builds knowledge toward practical steel-industry objectives.
Zero Emission Vessels and Infrastructure 2: Energy Efficiency
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK business-led collaborations developing innovative vessel energy efficiency technologies under the ZEVI 2 clean maritime programme.
CFI College Fund
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds the Canada Foundation for Innovation College Fund grants for Canadian colleges building research infrastructure and commercialization-ready outputs.
ERC Proof of Concept Grant
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds existing ERC grant holders in testing the commercial or societal potential of already-funded research through a fixed EUR 150,000 top-up grant.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Bio-Based Standards Research
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research consortia developing the pre-normative science behind future standards for bio-based chemicals, polymers and other bio-based products.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Marine Bio-Based Products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M projects turning marine organisms — algae, fungi, invertebrates — into safer bio-based replacements for adhesives, coatings and chemicals.
Horizon E-Waste: Recovering Critical Raw Materials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M projects building the tech and the market to make recycled electronics a real source of critical raw materials for Europe.
Horizon Packaging: Food-Contact Plastic Recycling
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds industrial consortia that recycle multilayer plastic food packaging back into food-contact-safe plastic, at scale.
Horizon Textile Recycling: Mixed-Fibre Waste
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds demonstrations that separate poly-blend garments and home fabrics so European recyclers can turn them into new fibre, up to €6M per project.
RIVCircular Open Call — Interregional Circular Economy Innovation Proposals
🇪🇸EISMEA · European Union
Offers RIVCircular Call Interregional Circular Economy Innovation Proposals for practical innovation and measurable results.
RIVCircular Open Call for Innovation Projects
🇪🇸RIVCircular · European Union
Funds circular-economy consortia across eight European regions with grants up to €2 million.
CBE JU 2026 Call for Project Proposals
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds EU bio-based innovation projects with up to Euro20 million per topic.
CBE JU: Safe Bio-Based Ingredients for Home & Personal Care
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M project that turns bio-based chemicals and ingredients into safer, sustainable home and personal care products at industrial scale.
Critical Raw Materials Partnership (RAMP) Joint Call
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds transnational consortia working on raw-material supply, use, and recycling projects through the RAMP joint call run by Energimyndigheten and Vinnova.
Horizon Bio-based Additives for Circular Products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €7M projects that make bio-based additives safer and easier to recycle or biodegrade in products across at least two markets.
Horizon Bio-based Industry Transition Roadmaps
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €1.2M project to map barriers and build industry roadmaps for switching from fossil-based to bio-based feedstocks and processes.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Biotech Biorefineries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M industrial project that scales biotechnology into sustainable biorefineries and market-ready bio-based products.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Circular Packaging Films & Coatings
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €7M projects that make bio-based packaging films and coatings perform better, work in factories and support circular end-of-life routes.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Circular Thermoset Materials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €7M projects that make durable products from renewable feedstocks and give cross-linked plastics viable recycling, reuse or upcycling routes.