Testing and demonstrating innovative solutions to improve resilience to extreme heat, including addressing health impacts
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.
This is an Innovation Action paid as a lump sum rather than reimbursed costs, evaluated with the programme's standard criteria, weighting, thresholds and post-decision timeline rather than a topic-specific scoring table. Because political and governance bottlenecks are treated as part of the challenge, proposals must bring in genuine social-sciences-and-humanities expertise rather than a purely te…
The funder wants demonstrated solutions that reduce the health and wellbeing impacts of extreme heat, from building retrofits and nature-based cooling to emergency-service readiness plans. Demonstrations must run in at least three regional or local authorities in different Member States or Associated Countries, with at least three more 'replicating' authorities lined up to reuse the results.
Sign up free to see the funding breakdown
Sign up free to see the industries in scope
Sign up free to see the full eligibility
Sign up free to see how to apply
Sign up free to see the timeline
Sign up free to see where teams trip up
Guides for this application
All guides →Horizon Europe Grants for Startups: A Founder Guide
A practical guide to Horizon Europe grants for startups, including EIC, consortia, eligibility, Funding & Tenders, TRL, budgets, and EU strategy.
DocumentsLetter of Support for Grant Applications: Template and Examples
Learn how to write and request a letter of support for a grant, with template structure, examples, reviewer logic, and common mistakes.
Find grantsGovernment Grants for Startups: What Deeptech Founders Should Know
A practical guide to government grants for startups, including Grants.gov, SBIR/STTR, state programs, eligibility, fit, timelines, and when to apply.
More from European Commission
All grants from this funder →Digital Europe Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds Europe-wide digital capability development in AI, cybersecurity, semiconductors, hardware, and IoT.
Crime prevention approaches, online and off-line, tackling the nexus between addictions and crime
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research and pilot collaboration between police authorities and civil-society groups to prevent addiction-linked crime across the EU.
Horizon Border Security: Accessible Travel Facilitation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €4M border-crossing tech projects, run with Border or Coast Guard Authorities, built for travelers with disabilities or low digital skills.
Horizon Border Security: Age Assessment Reliability
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €1.33M project, run with border and coast guard authorities, that compares how reliable different ways of estimating a young migrant's age really are.
Horizon Border Security: Surveillance & Drone Detection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €6M projects that build border detection and surveillance tech, run jointly with national Border and Coast Guard authorities.
Horizon Civil Security: Bioterrorism Prevention
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a €3M project that reviews how synthetic biology could be misused for bioterrorism and pinpoints where monitoring and regulation fall short.
Similar grants
Browse the directory →
Heat Network Efficiency Scheme (HNES)
🇬🇧DESNZ · United Kingdom
Funding to improve underperforming district and communal heat networks.
DEI+ Energy and Climate Innovation Demonstration
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds carbon reduction demonstration pilots in Dutch energy sectors to advance climate and technology transitions.
Knowledge and Innovation Covenant (KIC)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds multi-sector consortium research in the Netherlands with private co-financing for innovation readiness.
Swiss Climate Foundation Innovation Funding
🇨🇭Swiss Climate Foundation · Switzerland
Supports climate-tech companies in Switzerland and Liechtenstein through Swiss Climate Innovation funding for field deployment.
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.
KfW 459 — Heating Subsidy for Businesses, Residential Buildings (Heizungsförderung)
🇩🇪KfW · Germany
Funds company residential-building heating upgrades with KfW subsidies for climate-friendly systems.