Advanced Manufacturing & Materials grants
Innovate UK and UKRI funding for process, production and materials innovation
Manufacturing and materials proposals win when they make a measurable difference to cost, yield, quality or carbon, not when they describe a better machine in isolation. Innovate UK Made Smarter, UKRI research councils and Horizon Europe's digital industry cluster all back manufacturing innovation, but each wants a different evidence base.
Funders funding advanced manufacturing & materials
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Programmes that fit advanced manufacturing & materials companies
Innovate UK CR&D competitions
Process innovation, digital manufacturing, advanced materials and robotics for UK SMEs.
Made Smarter Innovation
Digital adoption and industrial digital technology for manufacturers.
Horizon Europe Digital, Industry and Space
Advanced manufacturing, materials and digital industry research at EU scale.
What assessors actually score
- A quantified process improvement against today's baseline
- IP and know-how protection that fits a competitive manufacturing strategy
- Supply-chain and scale-up evidence, not just a prototype
Where we work in advanced manufacturing & materials
Advanced Manufacturing & Materials grants in our directory
Live programmes from the UK grant directory that suit advanced manufacturing & materials projects. Deadlines move between rounds, so each listing links through to the current detail.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Food & Bioeconomy] Europe-wide environmental benchmarking of industrial bioeconomy sectors
Expected to open. Consortium; UK eligible (Assoc. Country); SMEs as partners
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Food & Bioeconomy] Using CCRI to strengthen urban manufacturing (Clean Industrial Deal) (two-stage)
Expected to open. Consortium; UK eligible (Assoc. Country); SMEs as partners
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Health] Cell-free protein synthesis platforms for discovery/production of biologicals
Expected to open. Consortium; UK eligible (Assoc. Country); SMEs as partners
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Industry & Digital] Advanced manufacturing for key products (IA, Made in Europe)
Expected to open. Consortium; UK eligible (Assoc. Country); SMEs as partners
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Industry & Digital] Advanced materials & processes reducing Critical Raw Material dependencies (IA)
Expected to open. Consortium; UK eligible (Assoc. Country); SMEs as partners
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Industry & Digital] Circular innovative advanced materials: design to markets (RIA)
Expected to open. Consortium; UK eligible (Assoc. Country); SMEs as partners
Relevant client wins
Grants our team has won for companies solving comparable technical problems.
£699,030
For robotic polypill manufacturing
FASST
Life sciences: pharmaceutical manufacturing
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£452,654
For composite production leap
Mayku
Advanced manufacturing: composites
Read the case studyFund your advanced manufacturing & materials R&D
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