Built Environment grants in Germany
Explore Built Environment grants for companies in Germany. This list brings together funding for construction technology, green buildings, smart cities, infrastructure and proptech from German innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in Germany, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Built Environment in Germany come first.
Showing 1-24 of 307 grants
KMU-innovativ — Stichtag
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German small and medium enterprises pursuing high-impact innovation in AI, climate, energy, and built environments.
BAFA Energy Advisory Grants — EBW / EBN / EBM
🇩🇪BAFA · Germany
Supports businesses in Germany through energy consultations that guide renovation and efficiency.
Joint Task for the Improvement of Regional Economic Structures — GRW (Gemeinschaftsaufgabe Verbesserung der regionalen Wirtschaftsstruktur)
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds regional German commercial projects through public investment subsidies to strengthen real-world implementation.
KfW 230 — Environmental Innovation Program Grant Route (Umweltinnovationsprogramm)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Offers companies access to grant and financing support for environmental innovation and climate-transition technologies.
KfW 261 — Wohngebäude-Kredit BEG, Tilgungszuschuss
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Provides residential owners with blended financing and subsidy support for energy retrofits and efficiency upgrades.
KfW 263 — BEG Non-Residential Buildings Loan, Repayment Grant (Nichtwohngebäude Kredit Tilgungszuschuss)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds energy-efficient non-residential building upgrades through a KfW credit with repayment-grant savings.
KfW 458 — Heating Subsidy, Residential Buildings (Heizungsförderung)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds residential owners with support for replacing older heating systems with efficient, low-emission alternatives.
KfW 459 — Heating Subsidy for Businesses, Residential Buildings (Heizungsförderung)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds company residential-building heating upgrades with KfW subsidies for climate-friendly systems.
KfW 522 — Heating Subsidy for Businesses, Non-Residential Buildings (Heizungsförderung)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds organizations upgrading non-residential building heating with efficient, climate-friendly technologies and support instruments.
KMU-innovativ: Materialforschung (ProMat_KMU)
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German material-science R&D, covering 50% up to 100% of costs.
Horizon Buildings: Whole Life Carbon Data Platforms
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €5.25M projects that plug embodied and operational carbon data into building certificates, passports and BIM tools.
Horizon Housing: Affordable Renovation Policy & Business Models
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €5M projects on what actually makes renovating rental housing affordable — for policy researchers and housing providers, not hardware builders.
Horizon Renovation: Low-Disturbance Prefab Retrofit
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds four €7M pilots that retrofit apartment blocks to near-zero-energy standard with prefabricated systems and minimal disruption to residents.
Horizon Smart Buildings: Energy & User Research
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €5.25M studies of how different groups of people actually use smart buildings, and what that means for real energy savings.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
BUILD UP Skills - National Platforms on energy efficiency skills for the clean energy transition
🇧🇪European Commission · European Union
Pays a single applicant to run a national platform and skills roadmap that grows the workforce of energy-efficiency professionals in one eligible country.
LIFE — Clean Energy Transition Coordination & Support Actions (CET)
🇪🇺CINEA · European Union
Runs research teams and institutions for LIFE Clean Energy Transition Coordination & Support Actions in energy systems, climate technology, and built environment.
LIFE — Standard Action Projects (SAP)
🇪🇺CINEA · European Union
Administers research teams and institutions for LIFE Standard Action Projects in climate technology, energy systems, and agriculture innovation.
Fostering competences for the green transition
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to map the skills young people and workers need for the green transition in one high-impact sector and how to teach them.
Horizon Climate Adaptation: Resilient Inland Waterways
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €6M projects for research consortia piloting nature-based flood and drought fixes across Europe's canal and river freight network.
Connect NEB Open Call 2027
🇪🇺EIT Urban Mobility · European Union
Pays a €15,300 lump-sum grant to projects reshaping neighbourhood public spaces.
Horizon Cities Mission: Circular Construction
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds five €9.5M projects that pair construction innovators with city partners to build and demonstrate circular-economy tools and business models.
Horizon Cities Mission: Low-Temperature Building Heating
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €6M projects that swap fossil-fuel heating in apartment blocks for heat pumps and low-temperature district heating.
Horizon Disaster Resilience: Multi-Hazard Risk Forecasting
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M projects building one forecasting system out of separate hazard models, tested with national disaster-response authorities.