Who funds ceramic materials research?

We count 61 funded ceramic materials projects, active between 2021 and 2031, from 4 funders. The most came from EU · MSCA (14 projects), EU · Digital, Industry and Space (8 projects) and DOE (8 projects). The median award is $1.3M, across the 59 of 61 projects that list an amount.

Funded projects

61

Funders

4

Median award

$1.3M

Open calls now

2

Top funders of ceramic materials research

Projects whose title or summary mentions ceramic materials. Median award: of the projects that list an amount, in US dollars; “—” when fewer than 3 do.

Open ceramic materials funding calls

2 open calls mention ceramic materials today.

• US Production of Ultra-High Temperature Ceramic-Yielding Preceramic Polymers
  U.S. Department of Defense – Air Force (SBIR)Not specifiedDeadline: November 25, 2026 ·
• Metals and Ceramics
  National Science Foundation (SBIR/STTR)Not specifiedDeadline: July 7, 2027 ·

Funded ceramic materials projects

A sample, latest start first, at most three per program.

• CAREER: Ultrafast Laser Manufacturing of Polymer-Derived Ceramics for High-Performance Ceramic Composite Materials
  NSF · ENG · $550,000 · ends 2031
• CAREER: Enabling Single-Step Additive Manufacturing of Ceramics via Laser-Triggered Flash Sintering and Scientific Artificial Intelligence-based Multiscale Modeling
  NSF · ENG · $550,000 · ends 2031
• Collaborative Research: GCR: Bioengineered Approaches to Recover Critical Minerals and Produce Sustainable Silicon-Based Materials from Silicon-Rich Wastes
  NSF · Office of the Director · $870,151 · ends 2031
• FLEX-INSPIRE: Flexible Large-area EXploration and INnovative SPutterIng for REsearch
  UKRI · EPSRC · £1,102,571 · ends 2030
• Development of multi-principal element ceramics for hot gas path hydrogen turbine components the project objective is to develop new…
  DOE · $800,000 · ends 2029
• Scalable multi-refractory ceramic matrix composites with film cooling for rotating detonation engines the proposed project will involve…
  DOE · $800,000 · ends 2029
• Collaborative Research: Mechanics of Confined Interfaces in Hierarchical Ceramic Composites Under Extreme Conditions
  NSF · ENG · $439,710 · ends 2029
• Impact of manufacturing processes on durability of environmental barrier coatings coated ceramic matrix composites components for fuel…
  DOE · $800,000 · ends 2029
• From Refuse to Resource: Ceramic and bone wastescapes in the early Neolithic of Europe
  UKRI · AHRC · £342,960 · ends 2029
• EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Closed-Loop Autonomous AI Platform for Rapid Discovery and Optimization of Compositionally Complex Ceramics
  NSF · Office of the Director · $300,000 · ends 2028

How we count

Funded projects come from public award records (NIH RePORTER, NSF, EU CORDIS, UKRI Gateway to Research, Wellcome, the Gates Foundation, DOE, NASA and USDA NIFA) whose title or summary matches “ceramic or ceramics”. NIH lists each budget year separately; one project counts once. Amounts are as the funder lists them; medians use only projects that list one, in US dollars. Open calls and forecasts are from our listings of October 28, 2026. A project can mention a topic without being mainly about it, so treat the counts as a guide to who funds the area.