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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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EIC pre-accelerator - Widening

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays deep-tech SMEs in Horizon Europe Widening countries to mature their technology from TRL4 to TRL5/6 and get investment-ready.

€300K – €500K
European Institute of Innovation and Technology logo
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EIT Women Leadership Award

🇪🇺EIT · European Union

Awards EUR50,000 to a top woman leader from the EIT Community, plus EUR30,000 and EUR20,000 to two runners-up.

€20K – €50K
KI
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ELEVATE Shakti 2026

🇮🇳KITS · India

Awards women-led Karnataka startups up to INR 50 lakhs in early-stage seed grant-in-aid.

₹5M
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Empowering youth in the EU Outermost Regions – YOUTH 4 OUTERMOST REGIONS (#YOUTH4ORS)

🇫🇷European Commission · European Union

Funds one organisation to run youth-led community and entrepreneurship actions across the EU's Outermost Regions.

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ERA Fellowships

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays a postdoctoral researcher's fellowship at a host organisation in an EU Widening country to help those countries attract and keep research talent.

€100K – €500K
ER
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ERC Advanced Grants 2025

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

€2.5M
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ERC Advanced Grants 2026

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays established research leaders up to EUR 2.5 million over five years to pursue ground-breaking, high-risk frontier research.

€2.5M
ER
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ERC Consolidator Grants 2026

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays researchers consolidating their own independent lab up to EUR 2 million over five years for frontier research.

€2M
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ERC Plus Grants 2026

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays outstanding researchers up to EUR 7 million for a major scientific challenge a regular ERC grant couldn't fund.

€7M
ER
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ERC Proof of Concept Grants 2025

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to test the commercial or social potential of their funded research.

€150K
ER
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ERC Public Engagement with Research Award

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Awards ERC grant holders up to EUR 10,000 for outstanding public engagement with their ERC-funded research.

€10K
ER
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ERC Starting Grants 2026

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays early-career researchers up to EUR 1.5 million over five years to launch their own independent research team.

€1.5M
ER
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ERC Synergy Grants 2026

🇪🇺ERC · European Union

Pays a group of two to four Principal Investigators up to EUR 10 million to jointly tackle a research problem none of them could solve alone.

€10M
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Eric and Wendy Schmidt Technology Fund

🇺🇸Princeton Innovation / Schmidt DataX · United States

Funds eligible Princeton researchers inventing or applying new research technology through one- or two-year grants.

$500K
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ESD Okayama Award 2026

Okayama City · Japan

Awards $3,000 to one or two Education for Sustainable Development projects that any organization worldwide has run for at least three years.

$3K
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EURES Targeted Mobility Scheme (TMS)

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds EURES organisations to place and support around 4,000 mobile jobseekers and apprentices across the EU and EEA.

European Innovation Council logo
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European Prize for Women Innovators — Rising Innovators category

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Pays a share of a EUR 100,000 prize to women under 35 who have founded breakthrough European innovation companies.

€50K
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European Prize for Women Innovators — Women Innovators category

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Pays a share of a EUR 220,000 prize to women founders of breakthrough European innovations, with no age limit.

€100K
EI
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European Prize for Women Innovators — Women Leadership category (EIT)

🇪🇺EIT · European Union

Pays a share of a EUR 100,000 prize to women founders with a direct link to the EIT Community who lead breakthrough European innovations.

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European Researchers' Night and Researchers at Schools 2026-2027

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds European Researchers' Night events and Researchers at Schools visits that bring researchers face to face with the public and pupils across Europe.

€100K – €350K
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Eurostars autumn 2026 call 11

🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden

Funds Swedish SMEs and their international partners to bring near-market R&D to launch.

SEK 5M
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Eurostars Call 11 for projects

🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Funds international R&D and innovation projects led by an SME through each country's own national funding body.

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FCT CEEC Individual — 8th

🇵🇹FCT · Portugal

Supports Portugal researchers with structured pathways in scientific employment opportunities for early-career PhDs, from planning to deployment.

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FCT Mobility

🇵🇹FCT · Portugal

Funds Portuguese research mobility projects through grants supporting researcher and institutional mobility activities.

€27K

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