Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Innovation CRD

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £6.5 million for collaborative industrial research to make supply chains more productive, resource efficient and resilient.

In Short

Project Duration Project Duration

12 and 36 months

Project Costs Project Costs

£250,000 - £1 million

Application Deadline Application Deadline

10 June 2026

Your project must apply one of the competition themes to at least two of the Advanced Manufacturing Frontier Industries.

 

  • measurement, sensing and instrumentation
  • additive manufacturing
  • digital manufacturing and industrial AI
  • robotics and intelligent automation
  • power electronics

  • automotive
  • aerospace
  • advanced materials
  • batteries
  • agri-tech
  • space

You must clearly describe how your project will improve productivity, resource efficiency, resilience, or a combination of these outcomes, within the targeted industries’ supply chain.

Eligibility

Your project must: have a grant funding request of between £250,000 and £1 million; last between 12 and 36 months, start on 1 October 2026 and end by 30 September 2029. Any funded organisation needs to carry out their project work in the UK and must intend to exploit the project results from or in the UK. To lead a collaborative project your organisation must be a UK registered business of any size. Subcontractors are allowed in this competition and are limited to no more than 30% of the project’s total eligible costs. You can use subcontractors from overseas but must make the case in your application as to why you cannot use subcontractors from the UK. You can use a previously submitted application to apply for this competition.

Our Approach

The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.

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