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.
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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 — Stichtag
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German SMEs pursuing high-impact R&D across 11 technology fields including biomedicine, bioeconomy, ICT, climate, energy, materials, medtech, photonics, and more.
KMU-innovativ: Materialforschung (ProMat_KMU)
🇩🇪BMFTR · Germany
Funds German material-science R&D, covering 50% up to 100% of costs.
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.
EIT Urban Mobility Financial Support to Startups
🇪🇺EIT Urban Mobility · European Union
Funds startups and industry teams building mobility, transport, and climate technologies through urban innovation support.
Horizon Bauhaus: Vacant Space Reuse
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4.5M projects that turn empty buildings and unused land into spaces neighbourhoods need, tested with communities in three countries.
Horizon NEB: Beautiful, Low-Carbon Thermal Comfort
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €4M projects that cut buildings’ need for air conditioning with vernacular, nature-based, or bioclimatic design, tested in two climate zones.
Horizon NEB: Capital Markets for Neighbourhoods
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research consortia designing and testing new routes for private capital into New European Bauhaus-aligned neighbourhood renewal projects across the EU.
Horizon NEB: Coordinated Homelessness Infrastructure
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds teams coordinating neighbourhood health, education and jobs services to fix chronic homelessness, piloted in five neighbourhoods in different countries.
Horizon NEB: Housing-led Homelessness Solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6.3M projects to test co-created, climate-ready homes and services across urban, peri-urban and rural neighbourhoods.
Horizon NEB: Neighbourhood Health & Belonging
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research linking how people experience neighbourhoods with health, belonging and greener, more resilient local planning.
Horizon NEB: Sustainable Building Maintenance & Repair
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M consortium projects that build predictive maintenance tools and repair methods for existing buildings, proven on three real sites across Europe.
Horizon NEB: Vertical Space for Housing & Green Space
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €5M demonstrators that turn a building’s unused roof, wall or the air above a street into new homes or public greenery nearby.
Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds teams that design and demonstrate new participatory methods for planning neighbourhood public spaces in at least three different countries.
Landscape Agroforestry for Healthy Soil
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €8M projects that scale agroforestry across landscapes and make healthier soil a practical, profitable choice.
Long-Term Soil Degradation Drivers
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €7M research project that uses historical evidence to explain soil degradation and improve future soil-health decisions.
Mission Soil: Community Research on Polluted Land
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5.5M projects that let communities map the health risks of polluted soils and shape safer local responses.