Built Environment grants in the Netherlands
Explore Built Environment grants for companies in the Netherlands. This list brings together funding for construction technology, green buildings, smart cities, infrastructure and proptech from Dutch innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in the Netherlands, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Built Environment in the Netherlands come first.
Showing 1-24 of 296 grants
Sustainable Community Real Estate Subsidy (DUMAVA)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays owners of Dutch schools, care homes and other community buildings to cut their energy use.
District Heating Network Investment Subsidy (WIS)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays heat companies and cooperatives up to half the cost of a new gas-free district heat network.
Rental Home Sustainability and Maintenance Subsidy (SVOH)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Pays Dutch landlords up to EUR 15,000 per home for insulation, heat pumps or maintenance.
Knowledge and Innovation Covenant (KIC)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds multi-sector consortium research in the Netherlands with private co-financing for innovation readiness.
DEI+ Energy and Climate Innovation Demonstration
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds carbon reduction demonstration pilots in Dutch energy sectors to advance climate and technology transitions.
DRIVE — Infrastructure Grant
🇳🇱Invest International · Netherlands
Funds public infrastructure preparation for projects in emerging markets through grants and guarantees linked to Dutch development financing.
DRIVE Technical Assistance
🇳🇱Invest International · Netherlands
Funds feasibility and environmental studies for infrastructure preparation in developing markets under the Dutch DRIVE model.
EKOO Topsector Energie R&D (Multi-Instrument)
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch energy partnerships through EKOO with mixed instruments supporting practical collaboration between industry and policy actors.
MOOI Mission-Driven Innovation
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds mission-driven Dutch innovation missions combining multiple partners to tackle energy and climate priorities.
Open Technology Programme
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch applied technology research in universities and public institutes through collaborative calls.
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.
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.
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.