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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. For the 2025 selection procedure, the projects provisionally selected will be asked to submit a full project proposal, probably in June 2025. The first projects are scheduled to start in December 2025.

Two steps to get funded
Timetable

Are you interested in EUKI funding? At the start of the next ideas competition, you will find the necessary financing information here. Subscribe to our newsletter to stay up to date.

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 institution.

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:

Two 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, when the application phase starts:

All project outlines received in full by the deadline will be reviewed based on fixed criteria.

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 the proposal within four to six weeks after the invitation and find the relevant documents below.

Project Proposal Development Package (zip,2 MB)

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.

This video explains the EUKI Selection Procedure in three minutes

About the EUKI funding

Dr. Joana Maćkowiak-Pandera, President and Founder of Forum Energii

„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.“

Marco Trisciuzzi, Managing Director of AHK Slovakia

“Thanks to EUKI funding, the German Chambers of Commerce Abroad have trained over 1,600 young professionals from 14 Central and Eastern European countries to become Energy Scouts as part of the Young Energy Europe project. The Energy Scouts receive energy efficiency training, with the aim of applying their newly acquired knowledge in a practical project within their company. This reduces energy costs and resource consumption, as well as CO₂ emissions, in the participating companies. Since 2018, Energy Scouts have successfully identified potential savings of over 200 GWh of electricity and over 160,000 tonnes of CO₂ in the workplace.”

For your assessment: The selection procedure 2025

The application period for the 9th EUKI call for project ideas starts on 28 January 2025 and will be closed on 10 March 2025; 15:00 CET (Central European Time).

All relevant information on the 9th EUKI call for project ideas will be published on this website, in the EUKI newsletter and on our social media channels Facebook and LinkedIn.
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 also read the Information on Project Financing in full before you apply.
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.
All project outlines received in full by the deadline (10 March; 15:00 Central European Time) 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.
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.
Information sessions on proposal development will be offered to the organisations selected. It is provisionally scheduled to take place in July 2025.
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.
Congratulations! You’ve made it and your project can start.