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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.

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Showing 97-120 of 296 grants

European Commission logo
Closed

Testing and demonstrating innovative solutions to improve resilience to extreme heat, including addressing health impacts

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds consortia to test and demonstrate extreme-heat resilience measures for buildings, public spaces and emergency services in at least three regional or local authorities.

Climate TechBuilt Environment
€10M
European Commission logo
Closed

Towards autonomous robot collectives delivering collaborative tasks in dynamic unstructured construction environments

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds research teams building multi-robot systems that collaboratively assemble structures on unstructured construction sites.

RoboticsBuilt Environment
€500K – €4M
European Commission logo
Closed

Towards the water infrastructures of the future

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds teams building smart sensors, AI, digital twins and cyber-defence tools that make drinking-water and wastewater infrastructure more resilient.

Climate TechBuilt Environment+2
€5M
European Commission logo
Closed

Underground Thermal Energy Storage in dense urban areas

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds demonstrators of underground thermal energy storage systems that cut the cost of heat storage in dense European cities.

Energy TechBuilt Environment
€9M
European Space Agency logo
Closed

Urban Green

🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational

Funds up to €200K, 100% covered, for satellite-based urban green-space services.

Climate TechBuilt Environment+1
€200K
Netherlands Enterprise Agency logo
Open

MIT R&D Cooperation Projects

🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands

Funds Dutch SME teams doing joint R&D to develop or renew products, processes or services.

€50K – €350KSep'26
Netherlands Enterprise Agency logo
Open

Trade Relations Programme (TRP) 2026

🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands

Pays Trade and Innovate NL network members to run export-support activities for Dutch firms.

€150KSep'26
Netherlands Enterprise Agency logo
Open

SME Collectives Sustainable Travel Behaviour (COVER)

🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands

Pays Dutch SME representative bodies to make their members' employee commuting greener.

€10K – €100KNov'26
Netherlands Enterprise Agency logo
Between cycles

Innovation Credit (Innovatiekrediet)

🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands

Funds Dutch firms developing high-risk new products or processes through repayable government loans covering project costs.

€30M
Netherlands Enterprise Agency logo
Between cycles

WBSO — R&D Tax Credit

🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands

Offers Dutch companies and professionals tax credits to offset payroll costs for qualifying technical and research projects.

Naturvårdsverket (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency) logo
Open

LIFE Programme — Environment, Climate and Nature

🇸🇪Naturvårdsverket · Sweden

Funds European companies and organisations developing pilot, demonstration, or best-practice projects in climate, clean energy, environment, or biodiversity.

Climate TechEnergy Tech+4
Sep'26
SW
Open

Global Prize for Innovation in Water (GPIW) 2026

SWA · Saudi Arabia

Pays up to $800,000 in cash prizes to water-innovation solvers worldwide.

Climate TechBuilt Environment
$50K – $100KSep'26
SP
Open

SpinLab Accelerator 2027

SpinLab · Germany

Awards up to €50,000 in equity-free funding and mentoring to energy, smart-city and eHealth startups.

Energy TechBuilt Environment+1
€6K – €50KOct'26
BC
Open

Buildner's Unbuilt Award 2026

Buildner Competitions · Global / Multinational

Awards €100,000 total to architects and designers for unbuilt building concepts.

Built Environment
€1K – €20KOct'26
BC
Open

UNBUILT 2026 Award

Buildner Competitions · Global / Multinational

Awards a €100,000 prize fund for the best unbuilt architecture, interior and landscape designs.

Built Environment
€20KOct'26
DE
Open

Start Up Energy Transition Award

dena · Germany

Awards €10,000 per category to energy-transition startups founded within the last 10 years.

Energy TechMobility+2
€10KOct'26
DE
Open

Start Up Energy Transition Award 2027

dena · Germany

Awards €10,000 to the winning start-up in each of five energy-transition categories.

Energy TechMobility+3
€10KOct'26
BC
Open

MICROHOME 2026

Buildner Competitions · Global / Multinational

Pays up to €30,000 to architects and creatives designing a compact 25 sqm micro-home.

Built Environment
€30KNov'26
BC
Open

Vancouver Tall Challenge

Buildner Competitions · Global / Multinational

Awards $15,000 CAD to designers reimagining tall buildings for downtown Vancouver.

Built Environment
CAD 1K – CAD 7KNov'26
VZ
Open

Tiny House 2026

Volume Zero · India

Awards $2,500 for the best Tiny House design in an open international competition.

Built Environment
$1K – $3KDec'26
28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital) logo
Open

EIT Digital Open Innovation Factory

🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union

Funds European digital startups at TRL 4-5 seeking co-development with industry partners through EIT Digital's open innovation matching platform.

AIBiotech+10
DE
Between cycles

SET Award

dena · Germany

Pays category-winning climate and energy startups €10,000, equity free.

Energy TechClimate Tech+2
€10K
A2
Closed

A2A Life Ventures – Non-Patented Concepts

A2A · Italy

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.

Energy TechClimate Tech+1
$10K – $15K
A2
Closed

A2A Life Ventures – Patentable Solutions

A2A · Italy

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.

Energy TechClimate Tech+1
$20K – $30K

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