financial support

This fund is the energy-efficiency support service for SMEs in England, Wales and Scotland. It provides direct funded support through energy assessments, training workshops, equipment procurement support and up to £ 5 000 (~€ 5 600) capital contribution per company towards energy-saving equipment...

The objective of the Catalan Circular Economy Projects Programme is to promote the transition of companies into a Circular Economy model, improving efficiency in the use of materials and decoupling global economic development from resource consumption. Companies or groups of companies that have at...

Subsidies to companies for environmental investments aimed at: protecting the environment (up to 60 %), adaption to future EU standards (up to 20 %), carrying out environmental studies (up to 70 %), waste recycling and reuse (up to 55 %), sanitation of contaminated sites (100 %), and external...

Support for Basque companies applying for European RTD funding, mainly Horizon 2020 and LIFE. Project proposals under these EU programmes need to demonstrate their excellence and score very well to succeed. Small grants to cover time and expenses (flights to attend meetings, paying experts, etc.)...

This programme offers grants for new business models and actions serving the circular economy, whether it is improvements to a company's own products or those derived from industrial remanufacturing, secondary materials or other waste-reducing business ideas. Budget: € 1.6 million per year Funding...

A programme to promote new circular economy business opportunities in the Basque country by conducting semi-industrial or industrial tests (demonstration projects) that confirm the environmental-economic-technical feasibility of new solutions to separate, collect or recover secondary materials...

Funded by the Scottish Government, SMEs can access interest-free, unsecured loans (5 % for renewables where government subsidies are claimed) of £ 1 000 to £ 100 000 (~€ 1 130 to € 113 000) for investments in equipment resulting in cost and carbon savings. Supported measures include commercial and...

As part of Germany's national high-tech strategy, this initiative by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research fosters interdisciplinary research in the field of materials technology, including for example materials-based product and process innovation. Funding depends on the following R&D...

The Environmental Protection Programme, an initiative of the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU), supports projects contibuting to environmental protection, with particular focus on small businesses. Depending on respective calls for proposals, topics of eligible projects might include...

The Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety in Germany funds industrial-scale pilot projects in key environmental sectors, such as climate protection and resource efficiency. These projects show how innovative technologies can be implemented to help...

The r+Impuls initiative by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) aims to boost R&D in resource efficiency (e.g. through pilot installations, industry-ready reference plants or mature prototypes). The programme supports high-risk and application-oriented industrial research as...

With this programme the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) helps SMEs by supporting high-risk and application-oriented industrial research as well as pre-competitive development projects in the field of resource and energy efficiency. Examples of eligible projects include (read...