EU Innovation Fund, Net-Zero Technologies call

The Innovation Fund pays lump-sum grants covering up to 60% of the costs of building and operating first-of-a-kind clean tech plants, from pilot to full commercial scale. For hardtech teams building physical decarbonisation equipment, batteries, electrolysers, CCUS or industrial process tech, it is one of the largest non-dilutive sources in Europe for the capital-heavy scale-up phase.

Grant EUSENODKFIIS European Commission / CINEA (European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency)

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Deadlines

No upcoming deadline is published right now. Check the program page for the next call.

No call is open right now. The last Net-Zero Technologies call (IF25 NZT, EUR 2.9 billion) closed on 23 April 2026. Five IF26 instruments are confirmed to open in December 2026: the Net-Zero Technologies call, a new SME call, a new Maritime call, a Heat Auction and a Hydrogen Auction. No specific opening or deadline dates have been published yet. Projects need real technical and financial maturity, this is not a program for concept-stage teams. Apply through the EU Funding & Tenders Portal once a call opens.

Checked 2026-10-12 against cinea.ec.europa.eu , climate.ec.europa.eu , zabala.eu , civitta.com . Confirm on the official page before you plan a submission.

Who can apply

Open EU-wide, including Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland. Legal entities (single applicants or consortia) with projects located in EU member states, Iceland, Norway or Liechtenstein. Projects must be technically mature, demonstrate innovation beyond the state of the art and deliver significant, verifiable greenhouse gas emission avoidance, typically TRL 6-9 (pilot to commercial deployment).

Amount

Up to 60% of eligible project costs, no fixed cap per project. Small-scale projects: CAPEX EUR 2.5-20 million. Medium-scale: EUR 20-100 million. Large-scale: above EUR 100 million. The 2025 Net-Zero Technologies call carried a total budget of EUR 2.9 billion

Other programs

EIC Accelerator Next deadline 4 Nov 2026 (12 days) EIC Pathfinder Next deadline 28 Oct 2026 (5 days) EIC Transition No published deadline right now Eurostars Next deadline 4 Mar 2027 Horizon Europe Cluster 4 and Cluster 5 calls Next deadline 1 Dec 2026 (39 days) Nordic Innovation open calls Next deadline 5 Nov 2026 (13 days)

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