Climate Tech grants in Germany
Explore Climate Tech grants for companies in Germany. This list brings together funding for decarbonization, carbon removal, clean industry, adaptation and climate data 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 Climate Tech in Germany come first.
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Space for Infrastructure: Water Management
ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies and pilots for satellite-enabled water infrastructure.
Startup Innovation Awards
WFF · Global / Multinational
Awards at least $7,500 per category, plus a $10,000 bonus for the top agrifood startup.
SusHi Tech Challenge 2026
SusHi Tech Tokyo · Japan
Awards the winning startup 10 million yen after a pitch contest at SusHi Tech Tokyo.
The Arctic Region: Environmental and Economic Resilience
ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 50-80% for satellite services protecting Arctic ecosystems and fisheries.
UN FAO World Food Forum Startup Innovation Awards
WFF · Global / Multinational
Recognizes agrifood startups across four themes, with XTC layering a special AI award on top of the UN's global awards.
Wilkes Climate Innovation Prize
Wilkes Center · United States
Awards $250,000 in non-dilutive funding to a bold, high-potential climate solution.
XPRIZE Water Scarcity — Track A: Desalination: System-Level Innovation
XPRIZE · United States
Awards up to $40 million for a system that makes large-scale seawater desalination affordable.
XPRIZE Wildfire Track B: Autonomous Wildfire Response
XPRIZE · United States
Pays a $3.5 million Grand Prize (plus milestone and bonus prizes from a $5 million pool) to the team whose autonomous system detects and fully suppresses a high-risk wildfire fastest.
XR Prize Challenge: Fight Climate Change
AugmentedReality.org · United States
Paid a $100,000 cash prize to the best AR/VR solution built to help fight climate change.
Equinor Ventures (Norwegian sovereign-linked)
Equinor · Norway
Invests in Scandinavian deep-tech and energy ventures with long-horizon backing from Equinor-linked venture operations.
Eurostars Call 11 for projects
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds international R&D and innovation projects led by an SME through each country's own national funding body.
ERC Proof of Concept Grants
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.
Horizon EIE: Technology Transfer Offices
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.
Creative alliances: Fostering global partnerships in cultural policies and CCI innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
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.
Governing global commons sustainably
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to develop policy solutions for the sustainable, science-informed governance of shared global resources like the climate, biodiversity and outer space.
Government in transition — how governments change the way they work and prepare the civil service for the future
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study how EU and Associated Country governments are reinventing internal operations and preparing their civil services for the future.
Making Europe a global magnet for talent — attracting and retaining non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.
Safeguarding linguistic diversity in Europe
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €5-5.75 million to document, map and help safeguard Europe's regional, minority and endangered languages.
Tackling child poverty and ensuring disadvantaged children's access to Early Childhood Education and Care
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to produce EU-specific evidence on the cost of child poverty and how to close gaps in disadvantaged children's access to early childhood education.
Tackling gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.
Transaction Costs Support for social finance intermediaries
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays social finance intermediaries in the EU and ESF+ Associated Countries to cover due-diligence, legal and business-development costs on risk-capital investments under €1 million into social enterprises.
Horizon Research Management Facility
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a Europe-wide support service that helps Widening-country research institutions build stronger management teams, systems and training.
Horizon Widening: Teaming CoE Synergies
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €7M action for research centres in widening regions to share expertise, build capacity and create lasting regional and European impact.
Posting of workers: enhancing administrative cooperation and access to information
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays public authorities, social partners, universities and research bodies to improve cross-border cooperation and information on posted workers' rights.