Built Environment grants

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Offers seed support across Harvard for climate and sustainability teams building early climate solutions with practical pilots.

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Funds three €5.25M projects that plug embodied and operational carbon data into building certificates, passports and BIM tools.

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Funds three €5M projects on what actually makes renovating rental housing affordable — for policy researchers and housing providers, not hardware builders.

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Funds four €7M pilots that retrofit apartment blocks to near-zero-energy standard with prefabricated systems and minimal disruption to residents.

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Funds three €5.25M studies of how different groups of people actually use smart buildings, and what that means for real energy savings.

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Funds small and mid-size Austrian municipalities through climate transformation programs.

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Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.

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Covers up to 95% of costs for projects that set up cross-sector coordination on energy poverty or help renovate homes for energy-poor households.

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Pays a single applicant to run a national platform and skills roadmap that grows the workforce of energy-efficiency professionals in one eligible country.

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Covers up to 95% of costs for projects that scale up high-quality building renovations or strengthen EU energy-performance certification tools.

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Runs research teams and institutions for LIFE Clean Energy Transition Coordination & Support Actions in energy systems, climate technology, and built environment.

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Covers up to 95% of costs for setting up a one-stop shop that handles a homeowner's entire renovation journey, from technical assessment to financing to quality checks.

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Covers up to 95% of the technical assistance costs to turn a sustainable-energy project idea into signed investment contracts, if it can leverage at least 15x its own grant.

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Covers up to 95% of costs for projects that set up national platforms tackling the regulatory and market barriers blocking heat pump and solar thermal roll-out.

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Covers up to 95% of costs for projects that help multiple municipalities actually deliver local heating and cooling plans, not just study them.

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Covers up to 95% of costs for projects that give Member State public administrations tools, guidance and shared practice to implement EU energy-efficiency or building-performance law.

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

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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 €6M projects for research consortia piloting nature-based flood and drought fixes across Europe's canal and river freight network.

Offers applied-AI startups six months of free membership at Groupama's Paris innovation campus.

Funds community groups turning New European Bauhaus ideas into real transformation in public spaces.

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Pays a €15,300 lump-sum grant to projects reshaping neighbourhood public spaces.

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