Green Platform Initiative

Green Platform Initiative

Funds Norwegian industry consortia leading green transition projects with partner support from Innovation Norway.

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

The Green Platform Initiative 2026 is Norway's largest single innovation programme call of the year, co-funded by three agencies: the Research Council of Norway (RCN), Innovation Norway (Innovasjon Norge), and Siva. The total pool is NOK 644.5 million. Individual grants run from NOK 30 million to NOK 80 million over 24 to 36 months, making this one of the highest-value R&D instruments available to Norwegian industry. The programme targets transformative green transition projects across Norwegian industry sectors, including maritime, offshore energy, manufacturing, food, and agriculture. The submission deadline was 3 June 2026 and this call is now closed.

Eligibility requires a Norwegian industry company to lead the consortium. Research organisations, public agencies, and other industry partners may participate alongside the lead company. Projects must demonstrate a primary focus on achieving measurable reductions in greenhouse gas emissions or otherwise accelerating the low-emission transition; green outcomes must be central to the project design, not incidental. The three co-funding agencies each assess proposals according to their own evaluation criteria, and applicants must satisfy all three funders' requirements simultaneously.

Given award sizes of NOK 30–80 million, winning consortia are typically large multi-partner structures uniting multiple companies, at least one Norwegian research organisation, and often an international dimension. Applicants who secured funding in previous Green Platform rounds — the scheme was introduced to consolidate major green transition investments — typically combined strong industry partners with research institutions that had demonstrated track records in relevant clean technology domains. Budgets require separate justification against each co-funder's scheme rules, and match-funding requirements appear in the full call documentation rather than the index page.