Photonics & Advanced Materials grants
Optics, lasers and materials innovation across UK and EU funders
Photonics and materials cut across every funder because they enable everyone else's roadmap. That breadth is an advantage if you sequence funders deliberately, and a trap if you send the same proposal to all of them.
£190m+ won by our team
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Funders funding photonics & advanced materials
- EPSRC
- Dstl
Programmes that fit photonics & advanced materials companies
Innovate UK CR&D competitions
Optical components, integrated photonics and imaging systems.
EIC Transition
Materials and photonics moving from lab-validated results towards market readiness.
ESA open calls
Directed energy, LIDAR, IR sensing and hardened optics for space applications.
What assessors actually score
- Measured optical performance against a named commercial benchmark
- Manufacturability and yield addressed, not deferred to a later stage
- Clear identification of the system-level customer
Where we work in photonics & advanced materials
Photonics & Advanced Materials grants in our directory
Live programmes from the UK grant directory that suit photonics & advanced materials projects. Deadlines move between rounds, so each listing links through to the current detail.
Horizon Europe
[Horizon - Civil Security for Society] Security challenges of the green transition in urban und peri urban areas
Technology Readiness Level: Activities are expected to achieve TRL 5 by the end of the project What the Grant Supports Projects should investigate the integration of sustainable and environmentally friendly technologies into urban and peri-urban areas to identify and explore physical and cyber risks and vulnerabilities associated with their deployment. Research may address: * Green and grid-interactive roofs and walls * Solar power installations * Electric vehicle charging stations * Energy storage systems * Smart sensors and surveillance systems * Green transportation systems * Nature-based…
Innovate UK
Collaborative R&D (CR&D) competitions
Mission-led competitions under the Innovate UK plans (e.g. Clean Energy Superpower Mission) funding partnerships between businesses and research organisations.
Innovate UK
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP)
Three-way partnership between a business, an academic institution and a graduate to deliver a strategic innovation project.
Horizon Europe
[HORIZON - Agriculture] African Union – European Union Partnership on Food and Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FN…
Due to the scope of this topic, legal entities established in all African Union member states* are exceptionally eligible for Union funding. * "African Union member states" includes countries whose membership has been temporarily suspended. International organisations with headquarters in a Member State or Associated Country are exceptionally eligible for funding.
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
Relevant client wins
Grants our team has won for companies solving comparable technical problems.
Phase 3 awarded
Large-scale live trials funded
Butterfly
Clean tech: indoor air quality
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£452,654
For composite production leap
Mayku
Advanced manufacturing: composites
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