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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SFOE Pilot and Demonstration Programme
🇨🇭BFE/OFEN · Switzerland
Funds Swiss energy pilot and demonstration projects that test technologies before market use.
Shanghai Magnolia Talent Plan Pujiang Project (Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan)
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports Shanghai returnee scholars through Pujiang programmes for reintegration into local research ecosystems.
Shanghai Rising-Star Plan
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports emerging Shanghai science and technology talent through the Rising-Star programme for career development.
Shenzhen International Science and Technology Cooperation Project
🇨🇳STIC-SZ · China
Supports Shanghai teams with international peers through STIC cooperation funding for joint research exchanges.
Smart and multifunctional textiles
🇪🇺EDA · European Union
Pays a contractor to build smart camouflage textiles that hide soldiers from drone surveillance.
SNSF Starting Grants
🇨🇭SNSF · Switzerland
Funds early-career Swiss investigators building independent research groups through sustained support.
Solving issues in carbon-neutral iron and steel making processes with diverse input materials of varying quality
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research that solves system-level problems in carbon-neutral iron and steel making caused by variable-quality input materials.
SSbD bio-based polymers/copolymers unlocking new market applications
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds scale-up of safe-and-sustainable bio-based polymers or co-polymers that match or beat fossil-based alternatives on performance.
SSbD bio-based solutions to replace hazardous conventional chemicals for textiles production
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds demonstration of safe-and-sustainable bio-based chemicals or processes that replace hazardous coatings, dyes and solvents used in making textiles.
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.
Startup TRL 3-4
🇦🇷Agencia I+D+i · Argentina
Funds Argentine deep-tech startups up to 7 years old developing proof-of-concept and early laboratory prototypes at TRL 3-4.
STEP — Productive Innovation — Energy (Inovação Produtiva — Energia)
🇵🇹IAPMEI · Portugal
Supports companies investing in critical clean and resource-efficient technology manufacturing in eligible mainland Portuguese regions.
STEP Defense & Security Tech — Call 02-130-K
🇱🇹Inovacijų Agentūra · Lithuania
Funds defense and security technology development in Lithuania through large-scale innovation grants for production-oriented projects.
Strategic Integrated Projects - Environment
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds large, multi-year projects that drive full implementation of an existing circular economy, waste, water or air quality plan, with EUR 56 million set aside for this topic in 2025.
Strategic Partnerships for Raw Materials: Innovative Approaches for sustainable production of Critical Raw Materials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds joint EU-and-partner-country projects that extract or process critical raw materials more sustainably, pairing an EU downstream user with industry from one of four named strategic-partner country groups.
Strathclyde Inspire Innovation Challenge
🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom
Supports University of Strathclyde students with early startup ideas through a competition that rewards market-ready commercial thinking.
STRIDE Ventures: Tech Metal Transformation Challenge
🇺🇸NSF TIP · United States
Funds United States solutions that recover critical metals from waste and industrial residues through applied research.
Substances of concern and emerging pollutants from bio-based industries and products: mapping and replacement
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds R&D into bio-based alternatives that replace hazardous chemicals like PFAS in industrial products and processes.
SUPERHOT
🇺🇸ARPA-E · United States
Funds United States geothermal R&D teams developing super-hot reservoir technologies through ARPA-E cooperative agreements.
Support to Standardisation Activities CEN/CENELEC/ETSI
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Provides research teams and institutions for Support to Standardisation Activities CEN CENELEC ETSI in quantum systems, artificial intelligence, and materials science.
Sustainable processing and refining of raw materials to produce battery grade Li-ion battery materials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds demonstrations that refine primary or secondary raw materials into battery-grade lithium-ion metals and active materials in Europe.
Swedish Energy Agency Negative Emissions Research Support
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds Swedish research organizations and companies developing carbon capture and storage for negative emissions through Industriklivet grants.
SWEETER Call 1 — Industrial Processes
🇨🇭BFE/OFEN · Switzerland
Funds two Swiss SWEETER challenge themes for high-temperature industry transitions and reuse of energy system components through consortium projects.
Tartan Entrepreneurs Fund
🇺🇸Swartz Center · United States
Funds Pittsburgh-based CMU alumni and faculty founders building high-growth startups with $100,000 in non-dilutive grant funding over two years.