Built Environment grants in the Netherlands

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.

Open

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.

Open

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.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.

Open

Pays research consortiums roughly €5-5.75 million to document, map and help safeguard Europe's regional, minority and endangered languages.

Open

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.

Open

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.

Open

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.

Open

Funds a Europe-wide support service that helps Widening-country research institutions build stronger management teams, systems and training.

Open

Funds one €7M action for research centres in widening regions to share expertise, build capacity and create lasting regional and European impact.

Open

Pays public authorities, social partners, universities and research bodies to improve cross-border cooperation and information on posted workers' rights.

Open

Funds early-career researchers building an independent research team and pursuing frontier research through an ERC Starting Grant hosted at a public or private research organisation.