Klima- und Energiefonds

Funds Austria's climate and energy transition through financing for efficiency, power transformation, and emissions reduction projects.

Klima- und Energiefonds (Klimafonds) is Austria's federal climate and energy fund. Endowed from the federal budget and active since 2007, it has backed about 500,000 projects through more than 60 programmes and says it has deployed €4.1 billion in cumulative funding. Its mandate is tied to Austria's 2040 climate-neutrality target and the wider shift to a greener, more digital, and more socially balanced economy.

The fund backs grants across energy, mobility, cities and regions, business, society, and climate. Live programmes on its site include Mission Klimaneutrale Stadt - TIKS 2026, Rail4Climate 2026, Energiegemeinschaften 2025, Regionalprogramme 2026, and the Pionierstadt partnership for smaller and mid-sized towns. The call surface runs from household energy-saving support to larger urban and transport competitions, with TIKS 2026 carrying a €20 million budget and the city partnership capped at €500,000.

Klimafonds acts as Austria's main public route for moving climate ideas from research into deployment. It contracts execution to partners such as FFG, KPC, and AustriaTech, while keeping the strategic funding role at federal level. The fund says each euro it spends can mobilize six euros in matched or follow-on investment, which is the clearest sign of how it sees leverage.