Built Environment grants
Explore grants for built environment companies. This directory covers funding for construction innovation, low-carbon building materials, energy-efficient retrofits, smart infrastructure and urban technology, from housing and infrastructure agencies, climate programs and industry-led challenges.
Showing 313-336 of 1,043 grants
Subsidy for Projects to Stimulate Direct Investment in Japan
🇯🇵JETRO · Japan
Funds foreign enterprises with reimbursement support for demonstration and de-risking activities that attract direct investment.
Sufficiency measures in the built environment
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a mapping approach for vacant and under-used space plus sufficiency measures that repurpose it, cutting demand for new floor space and materials.
Supporting district heating and cooling networks
European Commission · European Union
Funds up to EUR 2 million (95% of costs) for multi-country teams that prepare investment plans turning district heating and cooling systems onto renewable energy and waste heat.
SusHi Tech Challenge 2026
SusHi Tech Tokyo · Japan
Awards the winning startup 10 million yen after a pitch contest at SusHi Tech Tokyo.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Urban Green
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds up to €200K, 100% covered, for satellite-based urban green-space services.
Viable Cities: Energy-Positive Districts for Climate-Neutral Cities
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds Swedish consortia developing energy-positive city districts through Viable Cities grants for innovation and demonstration projects.
Vitality Fund
🇺🇸DMPED · United States
Offers research teams and institutions for Vitality Fund in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and built environment.
VVISDP — Rural Community Networks, City of uMhlathuze
🇿🇦TIA · South Africa
Supports community broadband and wireless networks in rural South African municipalities through technology validation.
Design for an Energy-Efficient Everyday Life Call
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds Swedish companies, design agencies, universities and institutes building energy- and resource-efficient products, services and behaviors through the Swedish Energy Agency's design and behavioral-science grants.
Impact Innovation: Geographic Transition Labs – Innovation Projects
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds Swedish businesses, universities, research institutes, public bodies, and civil-society groups running innovation projects in ShiftSweden's geographic transition labs.
Konza Smart Access Control Innovation Challenge
🇮🇱KoTDA · Kenya
Funds Israeli-led startups building smart access-control solutions through a Konza challenge prize.
NJ CSIT Clean Tech Seed Grant
🇺🇸NJ CSIT · United States
Funds New Jersey clean-tech startups developing early-stage technologies through CSIT seed grants.
NJ CSIT Pilot Clean Tech Demonstration Grant
🇺🇸NJ CSIT · United States
Funds New Jersey clean-tech companies demonstrating technologies through CSIT pilot grants.
Termo: Heating and Cooling in the Future Energy System
🇸🇪Energimyndigheten (Swedish Ene · Sweden
Funds companies, universities and research bodies working on heating and cooling in the energy system through a Swedish Energy Agency Termo call.
Bando Valore per il Territorio
🇮🇹CDP · Italy
Funds university-led research in Italy on regional innovation and territorial development.
Nysnø Direct Equity Investments
🇳🇴Nysnø · Norway
Invests minority equity in Norwegian climate-tech companies alongside private investors who retain control.
Globalstars
EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds joint research and development projects that pair an organisation from a EUREKA member country with an independent partner in a market outside the network, such as Japan, Taiwan, India or Uruguay.
MIT R&D Cooperation Projects
🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch SME teams doing joint R&D to develop or renew products, processes or services.
UKRI Translation: Impact Acceleration Accounts 2027
🇬🇧UKRI · United Kingdom
Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.
Michigan State Trade Expansion Program (MI-STEP)
🇺🇸MSF · United States
Funds Michigan small businesses pursuing export growth through pre-approved trade reimbursements.