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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Horizon Bioeconomy: Scalable Biorefinery Processing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds consortia to cut cost, solvent use, energy and water in biorefineries, tested across at least three industrial or demo-scale use cases.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Woody Residue Biorefinery
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €7M projects turning bark, sawdust and other woody residues into validated bio-based chemicals or materials for sustainable end products.
Horizon CBE: Alternative-Source Bio-Polymers
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €3.25M projects that turn alternative bio-feedstocks into safe, circular polymers tested across at least two markets.
Horizon CBE: Bio-Based Textile Fibres
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €3.25M projects that turn sustainable biomass or bio-based textile waste into high-performing, circular fibres.
LIFE Circular Economy and Zero Pollution — Standard Action Projects
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds standard projects on circular economy, waste, air, water, soil, noise, chemicals and industrial pollution across the EU.
LIFE Legislative and Policy Priorities — Nature and Circular Economy
CINEA · European Union
Funds research organisations delivering nature and circular-economy policy projects through the LIFE Programme.
LIFE Programme — Environment, Climate and Nature
🇸🇪Naturvårdsverket · Sweden
Funds European companies and organisations developing pilot, demonstration, or best-practice projects in climate, clean energy, environment, or biodiversity.
LIFE Technical Assistance for ENV Strategic Integrated Project Preparation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays for the preparation work behind a Strategic Integrated Project that implements a national or regional circular-economy, waste, water or air plan.
RAMP Joint Call 2026
🇵🇱NCBR · Poland
Co-funds Polish firms and research partners doing raw-materials R&D with EU partners.
RAMP Joint Transnational Call 2026
🇪🇺RAMP · European Union
Funds transnational raw-materials research projects worth up to €2 million each.
Raw Materials Partnership for the Green and Digital Transition: call for European projects
🇨🇭SNSF · Switzerland
Funds Swiss researchers on European raw-materials supply and circularity projects.
SBO Strategic Basic Research Projects
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds strategic basic research across Flemish institutions in AI, biotech, climate, and engineering.
CBRN decontamination systems and technologies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds contractors to build portable nanosorbent devices that decontaminate large military equipment after CBRN exposure.
CFI Innovation Fund
🇨🇦CFI · Canada
Funds Canadian university research infrastructure through strategic national awards to strengthen real-world implementation.
DARPA DSO Disruptioneering
🇺🇸DARPA · United States
Supports rapid United States exploratory defense research through fast-distributed projects and compact delivery agreements.
Desalination and Water Purification Research Program: Research Projects
🇺🇸DOI · United States
Funds lab-scale and pilot-scale research that cuts the cost or energy of treating impaired water for reuse.
ECosystem for Leading Innovation in Plasma Science and Engineering (ECLIPSE)
🇺🇸NSF · United States
Funds plasma science aimed at real technological problems — manufacturing, microelectronics, agriculture, sensors, nanomaterials.
Smart and multifunctional textiles
🇪🇺EDA · European Union
Pays a contractor to build smart camouflage textiles that hide soldiers from drone surveillance.
Continuation of Solicitation for the DOE Office of Science Financial Assistance Program
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Supports unsolicited basic research proposals across all Office of Science thematic areas in the United States.
Critical Minerals Accelerator
🇬🇧DSIT · United Kingdom
£25 million to scale up UK extraction, processing and recycling of critical minerals.
DOE Office of Science Open Solicitation
🇺🇸DOE SC · United States
Connects research teams and institutions for DOE Office of Science Solicitation in artificial intelligence, energy systems, and fusion research.
Energy Dominance Financing Program
🇺🇸DOE LPO / EDF · United States
Supports national energy infrastructure through federally backed loan instruments in the United States.
FES Continuation Solicitation
🇺🇸DOE FES · United States
Supports fusion, plasma, and high-energy-density research partnerships blending public and private work.
Indirect Cost Compensation ETS (IKC-ETS)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays energy-intensive Dutch manufacturers back for the EU carbon-price costs in their electricity bill.