Built Environment grants in Germany

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.

Awards early-stage climate tech and energy start-ups an equity-free cash prize, a fully-covered trip to Berlin, and investor exposure at the SET Tech Festival.

Closed

Funds feasibility studies and pilots for satellite-enabled water infrastructure.

Awards the winning startup 10 million yen after a pitch contest at SusHi Tech Tokyo.

Open

Funds existing ERC grant holders in testing the commercial or societal potential of already-funded research through a fixed EUR 150,000 top-up grant.

Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.

Open

Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.

Open

Pays international research consortiums roughly €3-3.75 million to build cross-regional creative-industry and cultural-diplomacy partnerships between Europe and world regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.