the next call for ideas
Project Funding
We fund selected projects that promote cross-border climate action in Europe. Funding of between 120,000 and 1 Million euros will be awarded per project, following a Europe-wide call for project ideas that we put out every year. The last application window was open from 25 November 2022 to 13 January 2023.
Are you interested in EUKI funding? The 8th EUKI call for project ideas is expected to start in November 2023. Read the financing information on the last call for project ideas to get an overview.
Is your organisation eligible for funding?
Your organisation is eligible if it is:
- a non-governmental organisation (NGO)
- a regional or local authority
- a non-profit enterprise; or
- a University or other educational insitiution.
Your organisation is headquartered in:
- an EU member state or
- one of the following EU candidate countries or potential candidate countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia or Serbia.
In which countries does the EUKI support climate projects?
- The EUKI funds projects in all EU member states and the (potential) candidate countries of the Western Balkans.
- The regional focus is on Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the Baltic States and the Western Balkans. At least half of the project funds must go to the target countries in these regions.
- The EUKI supports cross-border cooperation: funded climate projects should have partner organisations in several European countries.
What exactly does the EUKI fund?
The EUKI projects work in the following areas:
- Climate-Neutral Mobility
- Climate Policy
- Carbon Removals and Sinks
- Energy Transition and Climate-Neutral Buildings
- Just Transition
- Sustainable Economy
Three steps to get funded
Step 1: Submit a project outline
The first step is to provide an outline of your project: explain the existing challenges and goals, and the actions needed to achieve them. You can find the information on financing and all other necessary documents in the document box below:
All project outlines received in full by the deadline will be reviewed based on fixed criteria. The next call for project ideas is expected to start in November 2023.
Step 2: Submit a complete project proposal
If your project outline is selected by the EUKI, you will be invited to prepare a full project proposal in Step 2. You must submit this within four to six weeks of the invitation.
We will send you a link to the documents you need to fill in with the invitation.
Step 3: Start implementing your project
Congratulations! Once your project proposal has been accepted and the grant agreement (see example) signed, you can start implementing project activities. At the same time, you will also begin the financial management of the project. You find all the key information about managing your project, including some helpful tutorials, on the For Projects page.
About the EUKI funding
„Germany is to be climate-neutral by 2045. In Europe we have set the goal to achieve this by 2050. We can only meet those challenges when we think of climate action, energy policy and economic development as joint European efforts. This is why we use EUKI to fund projects which accelerate the phase-out from fossil fuels and the expansion of renewable energies across borders.”
The EUKI funding enabled our project Young Energy Europe to educate 843 young professionals in eight CEE countries to become Energy Scouts. They receive an energy efficiency training and directly apply the knowledge in their companies in a practical project, reducing energy consumption, related costs and saving CO2 at the same time. The results are impressive – since 2018 Energy Scouts revealed total savings of 116.000 MWh of electricity and 106.000 tons of CO2 per year in their workplaces.
„In our Clean Heat project, EUKI funding enabled us to conduct analyses of air pollution in the country and draft strategies or low-emission heat generation. The results were published in 2020 by the Polish Ministry of Climate and Environment, and significantly informed the decision to stop burning coal in cities by 2030 and villages by 2040.“
Timetable: Selection procedure 2022/2023
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The application window for the 7th EUKI call for project ideas closed on 13 Januar 2023.
Updates on the next EUKI call for project ideas will be pusblished on this webseite, in the EUKI newsletter and on our Social Media channels Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.
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At the Info Day, the teams behind EUKI and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) will give an overview of the eligibility criteria, financing objectives and target groups. This event will help you to write a suitable project proposal for the focus topics.
Please carefully read the full Information on Financing for the 7th call for project ideas before submitting your project outline.
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Project outlines should be prepared in English, indicating the issue to be addressed, project goals and planned measures. These must be submitted by the deadline using only the online application tool (platform for project outlines) on the EUKI website.
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All project outlines received in full by the deadline will be evaluated. A shortlist of promising project ideas will then be drawn up based on the selection criteria and limited by the available budget.
Project ideas not selected for financing will be notified by email.
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Organisations on the shortlist will be invited to submit a full project proposal within four to six weeks. The invitation is sent by email to the main implementer.
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Information sessions on proposal development will be offered to the organisations selected. It is provisionally scheduled to take place in June 2023.
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Shortlisted applicants will be asked to submit their full project proposals.
Incomplete project proposals – including proposals without English translations – can result in exclusion from the selection procedure and thus from any project funding.
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Congratulations! You’ve made it and your project can start.