Introduction
🚀 We are introducing the Innovation Fund - one of the world’s largest funding programmes for the demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies.
Directly managed by the European Commission, it has a budget 💰 of €4.6 billion to boost net-zero technologies, electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing and renewable hydrogen.
This initiative is designed to support innovative investment projects in energy-intensive industries, renewable energy, energy storage, industrial carbon management, net-zero mobility (including maritime, aviation, and road transport), and sustainable buildings.
Innovation Fund - Net-Zero Technologies 2024 - 2025
This initiative is designed to support innovative investment projects in energy-intensive industries, renewable energy, energy storage, industrial carbon management, net-zero mobility (including maritime, aviation, and road transport), and sustainable buildings.
🔑 Key details:
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Budget: €4.6 billion
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Funding intensity: Up to 60%
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Multiple funding streams based on project size:
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Small-scale: CAPEX €2.5 – 20 million,
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Medium-scale: CAPEX €20 – 100 million,
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Large-scale: CAPEX €100 million+
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Application Process
If your preliminary review via the self-check questionnaire/online form was positive, here’s how you can move forward:
- ✅ Review the application process requirements 📄🔍
- 📌 Understand the necessary documents and evaluation criteria before proceeding. The application process is explained in the Call for proposals / Programme guideline (click here for direct access)
- 🌟 Get inspiration from previously funded projects 💡🚀
- 📌 Explore success stories and case studies in your sector. Previously funded projects / project examples from the past (some of which may be in your sector) – Explore here
- 🤔 Decide if you want to go ahead ✅❌
- 📌 Assess feasibility, alignment with funding priorities, and potential impact.
- 🎯 Select the right funding stream 💰📊
- 📌 Choose the best-fit funding category based on your project scale and objectives. small scale - medium scale - large scale.
- 📌 Choose the best-fit funding category based on your project scale and objectives. small scale - medium scale - large scale.
- 📝 Start your application! 🚀🖊️
- 📌 Begin preparing your submission with all required information. For starting an application you need to register/ sign in via the Funding & Tenders portal click here (all relevant document are available here).
- 📌 Begin preparing your submission with all required information. For starting an application you need to register/ sign in via the Funding & Tenders portal click here (all relevant document are available here).
More about the application process here.
Project examples, insights & statistics
📊 Key Highlights from Previous Calls:
- 125+ projects funded across multiple sectors
- €6.6 billion in EU contributions already supporting transformative projects
- 444.7 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions avoided – driving real climate action
- 277 project participants, including 39 SMEs
Resources & Latest updates
We particularly suggest looking into the Innovation Fund 2024 Net Zero Technologies – General decarbonisation – Small-Scale Projects
📚 For more details, here are some useful resources:
How can Winnovart help You
- Offer a personalised presentation of the funding programme and application process (including requirements) in a direct / online workshop
- Preliminary project fit and funding readiness review, including a direct workshop to optimise your project concept
- Managing your online application via the funding & tenders portal (online account, Application Form Part A, Application Form Part B, Part C)
- Prepare, together with you, the mandatory annexes (budget, participant information, GHG emission avoidance calculator, feasibility study, business plan, detailed financial model, project shareholders’ financial resources)
- Help prepare the supporting documents
- Assign an independent expert with experience in assessing funding proposals (Horizon Europe and similar) to review your application file and provide feedback (pre-submission)
At Winnovart, it is part of our mission to bridge the gap between stakeholders of the grants-funding market space across Europe. We believe in the potential of grants to create ecosystems that drive innovation, and growth and reduce disparities between the regions of Europe. Our aim is to support innovative SMEs, private investors and funding agencies to become part of this ecosystem and make the most of it.
Our presence in Western, Eastern and Northern Europe enables us to create international business cases for our clients, in the context of attractive funding programmes as well as beyond it, by opening up international development opportunities.
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