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Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Sicurezza Energetica

Supports Italy's energy security and environmental resilience by coordinating policy and funding for clean and stable power transitions.

Italy

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Programs7

Active grants0

Total grants5

About

Ministero dell'Ambiente e della Sicurezza Energetica, known as MASE, is Italy's national environment and energy-security ministry. It was created in 2022 and now sits at the centre of Italy's ecological transition, using grants, incentives, and PNRR-backed investment programmes to move money into renewable energy communities, biomethane, agrivoltaics, district heating, and clean R&D.

The ministry…

Programs & grants under this funder

PNRR M2C2 — Parco Agrisolare

Supports the Parco Agrisolare route, helping productive agricultural rooftops add photovoltaic systems and strengthen clean-energy capacity.

PNRR M2C2 I1.4 — Biomethane Development (Sviluppo del Biometano)

Supports the Sviluppo del Biometano route, helping biogas producers move toward biomethane through circular-economy energy upgrades.

PNRR M2C2 I1.2 — Comunità Energetiche Rinnovabili (CER)

Supports the Comunità Energetiche Rinnovabili route, enabling renewable-energy communities in Italian municipalities to fund local energy projects.

1 grant

CER Renewable Energy Communities

Between cycles

€2.2B pool

Mission Innovation 2.0 — MASE R&D

Supports Mission Innovation in Italy, offering innovation grants for energy-transition technologies across renewables, storage, hydrogen, and smart grids.

1 grant

Mission Innovation 2.0 — R&D

Closed

€200M pool

MASE Mission Innovation Critical Raw Materials

Funds enterprise-led consortia developing technologies for critical and strategic raw-materials value chains.

1 grant

MASE Critical and Strategic Raw Materials R&D and Innovation Projects

Closed

€21M pool

REPowerEU Critical Raw Materials Investment 8

Funds Italian critical raw-materials R&D projects through REPowerEU support.