Grants in Germany

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Funds consortia to cut cost, solvent use, energy and water in biorefineries, tested across at least three industrial or demo-scale use cases.

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Funds two €7M projects turning bark, sawdust and other woody residues into validated bio-based chemicals or materials for sustainable end products.

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Funds two €3.25M projects that turn alternative bio-feedstocks into safe, circular polymers tested across at least two markets.

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Funds two €3.25M projects that turn sustainable biomass or bio-based textile waste into high-performing, circular fibres.

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

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Administers research teams and institutions for LIFE Standard Action Projects in climate technology, energy systems, and agriculture innovation.

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Funds standard projects on circular economy, waste, air, water, soil, noise, chemicals and industrial pollution across the EU.

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Funds standard climate-adaptation projects — from nature-based flood defences to health and insurance tools — that build resilience across the EU.

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Funds standard mitigation projects — from zero-emission transport to industrial decarbonisation and carbon capture — that cut EU greenhouse gas emissions.

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Funds projects that build public and private capacity — skills, monitoring, awareness — to implement EU climate change law and policy.

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Funds standard projects that build public administration and private-sector capacity to implement EU circular-economy and environment policy.

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Funds standard hands-on projects that protect, maintain and restore the EU's marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems.

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Funds standard projects that raise awareness of nature conservation and support access to justice and compliance under the Aarhus Convention.

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Pays for the preparation work behind a Strategic Integrated Project that implements a national or regional climate mitigation or adaptation plan.

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Pays for the preparation work behind a Strategic Integrated Project that implements a national or regional circular-economy, waste, water or air plan.

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Pays for the preparation work behind a Strategic Nature Project that implements a national or regional nature-restoration plan.

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Funds one project to build permanent multilevel dialogues between EU governments, regions, cities and stakeholders on energy and climate policy in six to ten Member States.

Funds transnational raw-materials research projects worth up to €2 million each.

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Pays research consortiums roughly €4.5-5 million to study and pilot art-science-technology collaborations that boost innovation, soft skills and human-centred technology.

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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.

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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.

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Funds a single coordination action that monitors and promotes cooperation between social-science and STEM research across EU-funded projects.

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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.

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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.