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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NSFC Research Fund for International Scientists
🇨🇳NSFC · China
Supports international researchers at Chinese host institutions with research grants for deep collaboration.
OG-AMMTO Critical Minerals & Materials Accelerator
🇺🇸DOE Geothermal / OG · United States
Offers research teams and institutions for OG AMMTO Critical Minerals & Materials Accelerator in energy systems, materials science, and climate technology.
One NC SBP — SBIR/STTR Phase I Incentive Funds
🇺🇸NC BSTI · United States
Supports North Carolina small businesses through One NC SBP with help covering early proposal costs for government innovation awards.
One NC SBP — SBIR/STTR Phase I Matching Funds
🇺🇸NC BSTI · United States
Funds state-level co-investment support that can help early small businesses extend grant-backed research stages.
Open Innovation Challenge for Talent – SIGNs Sprint
EIT RawMaterials · European Union
Pays student and graduate teams cash prizes for pitching green-metals ideas in Amsterdam.
Optimal combination of low embodied carbon construction products and circularity for climate neutral buildings (Built4People Partnership)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research combining construction products and building systems to minimise whole-life carbon, validated in at least three countries.
Optimised/Alternative Silicon Growth Technologies (from either liquid or gaseous phase) for PV Applications
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds consortiums including a silicon wafer manufacturer to develop cheaper, lower-energy ways to grow silicon ingots and wafers for solar cells.
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.
OPUS 31
🇵🇱NCN · Poland
Funds fundamental research in Poland through competitive grants for broad research communities and university teams.
OSD ManTech / MII Project Calls
🇺🇸DoD · United States
Supports advanced manufacturing research and innovation through Manufacturing Innovation Institute calls.
Patents
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels SMEs filing national or PCT international patents for their R&D results, covering 50 percent of patent application and procedure costs.
Per- and Poly-fluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) exposure, emissions, and end of life management in the healthcare sector
🇪🇺IHI JU · European Union
Funds one project to map, replace, reduce and safely dispose of PFAS chemicals used in medicines, vaccines, devices and diagnostics.
PitchMI
🇺🇸MSURF · United States
Awards Michigan startups $250,000 per track winner, plus $1 million at the championship.
Pre-Startup Package
🇰🇷KISED · South Korea
Supports would-be entrepreneurs in Korea with commercialization guidance and early innovation funding before formal company launch.
Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) of policy and market-relevant product groups
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds teams that build life-cycle-assessment datasets and digital tools measuring a product's environmental footprint, for one of seven product groups.
Proof of Business
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies developing their first technologically innovative prototype or service, covering 50 to 70 percent of the budget for technical and economic validation.
R&D Projects
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies doing industrial research, experimental development, or process innovation through grants covering 15 to 70 percent of project costs.
R&D Tax Incentive — claim year
🇳🇿Callaghan Innovation · New Zealand
Provides New Zealand businesses with policy support for innovation investments.
Renewable Chemical Production Tax Credit
🇺🇸IEDA · United States
Offers Iowa producers a tax credit for biomass-derived high-value chemical manufacturing output.
Reverse local construction supply chains for the beautiful re-assembly of reclaimed construction products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into re-assembling reclaimed construction products locally, using tools like Digital Product Passports to trace materials and unlock new circular business models.
RF Architectures Applying Photonic Timing and Routing (RAAPTR)
DARPA · United States
Funds three to five teams from a $58 million pool to build defense-grade RF systems that use optical timing instead of conventional microwave generation.
RFCS Big Tickets — Coal
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funded large-scale pilot and demonstration coal-transition projects reaching TRL 7-8, aimed at repurposing mine sites and cutting methane and mine-water impacts.
RFCS Steel Accompanying Measures
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds talent-building and policy-overview work for the steel sector's near-zero-carbon transition, alongside the Research Fund for Coal & Steel's steel research topics.
RFCS Steel Big Tickets — Clean Industrial Deal
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funded large-scale pilot and demonstration steel-recycling and residue-valorisation projects reaching TRL 7-8, tied to the EU's Clean Industrial Deal.