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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RFCS Steel Big Tickets — Steel and Metals Action Plan
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funded large-scale pilot and demonstration projects for new low-carbon steelmaking processes and advanced steel grades, reaching TRL 7-8.
RFCS Steel Pilot and Demonstration Projects
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds pilot and demonstration-scale steel installations working toward near-zero-carbon steelmaking, under the Research Fund for Coal & Steel.
RFCS Steel Research Projects
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds early-stage steel research toward near-zero-carbon steelmaking and advanced steel grades, under the Research Fund for Coal & Steel.
Safe and clean processing technologies and products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into industrial processing technologies that cut the use of hazardous substances and reduce health, safety and environmental risks beyond CO2.
Safe and sustainable alternatives to PFAS
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds around four projects, each worth up to EUR 7 million, to develop non-PFAS chemicals for electronics, construction, textiles and automotive parts.
Safer Alternatives to Industrial Substances
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds industrial substitutes for substances of concern, covering design, production, manufacturing integration and market uptake.
Scalable and high efficiency materials and reactors for direct solar hydrogen production
🇪🇺Clean Hydrogen JU · European Union
Funds research into scalable materials and reactors that split water into hydrogen directly using concentrated solar energy.
SCALE Capital: Massachusetts Lab-to-Fab Grant Program
🇺🇸NEMC · United States
Funds Massachusetts microelectronics teams moving lab-to-fab projects through SCALE Capital grants.
SFOE Pilot and Demonstration Programme
🇨🇭BFE/OFEN · Switzerland
Funds Swiss energy pilot and demonstration projects that test technologies before market use.
Shanghai Pujiang Talent Plan
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Supports Shanghai returnee scholars through Pujiang programmes for reintegration into local research ecosystems.
Shenzhen International Science and Technology Cooperation Project
🇨🇳STIC-SZ · China
Supports Shanghai teams with international peers through STIC cooperation funding for joint research exchanges.
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.
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 small businesses in mainland Portugal building manufacturing capacity in clean energy and climate technologies.
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.
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🇺🇸ARPA-E · United States
Funds United States geothermal R&D teams developing super-hot reservoir technologies through ARPA-E cooperative agreements.