Built Environment grants in Belgium

Between cycles

Funds first-time Flemish exporters launching international sales with flat-rate export grants.

Between cycles

Funds Belgian companies with innovation deductions that strengthen spending on new products and services.

Closed

Supports the VLAIO Innovatieve Bedrijfsnetwerken program that connects Flemish enterprise consortia and co-finances collaborative innovation clusters.

Discontinued

Offers Welvaartsfonds as a recovery support facility for Flemish companies needing mezzanine financing support during stress periods.

Open

Funds European companies and organisations developing pilot, demonstration, or best-practice projects in climate, clean energy, environment, or biodiversity.

Pays up to $800,000 in cash prizes to water-innovation solvers worldwide.

Awards up to €50,000 in equity-free funding and mentoring to energy, smart-city and eHealth startups.

Awards €100,000 total to architects and designers for unbuilt building concepts.

Awards a €100,000 prize fund for the best unbuilt architecture, interior and landscape designs.

Awards €10,000 per category to energy-transition startups founded within the last 10 years.

Awards €10,000 to the winning start-up in each of five energy-transition categories.

Pays up to €30,000 to architects and creatives designing a compact 25 sqm micro-home.

Awards $15,000 CAD to designers reimagining tall buildings for downtown Vancouver.

Awards $2,500 for the best Tiny House design in an open international competition.

Open

Funds European digital startups at TRL 4-5 seeking co-development with industry partners through EIT Digital's open innovation matching platform.

Pays category-winning climate and energy startups €10,000, equity free.

Pays $10,000 to $15,000 for promising non-patented clean-tech startup ideas in energy transition and the circular economy, with a chance to join A2A's venture-building program.

Pays $20,000 to $30,000 for patentable clean-tech products or processes in energy transition and the circular economy, in exchange for the exclusive right once filed.

Pays $30,000 to $50,000 for already-patented clean-tech products or technologies in energy transition and the circular economy, in exchange for the IP.

Closed

Connects climate innovators to partner programs delivering climate, AI, energy, and built-environment acceleration.

Closed

Supports early-stage climate ventures through global competition, coaching, and investment readiness across all sectors.

Awards equity-free cash prizes and strategic investment access to ConTech startups pitching to a consortium of ten construction-industry corporate venture arms.

Pays up to $575,000 across three phases for a rapid seal that stops dam conduit failures.

Closed

Fully funds space-enabled services that make critical infrastructure safer and greener.