Discover the programme
The Innovation Fund, financed by EU Emissions Trading System revenues, is one of the world’s largest funding programmes for the demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies. The Fund focuses on highly innovative clean technologies and big flagship projects with European added value that can bring significant emission and greenhouse gas reductions.
Innovation Fund projects cover a wide range of innovative technologies in areas such as energy- intensive industries, renewables, energy storage, net-zero mobility and buildings, hydrogen, and carbon capture, use and storage. They are located in the EU, Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway.
Opportunities
Find funding for your project through calls or auctions.
Evaluate Innovation Fund proposals.
Support for applicants
Calculate the greenhouse gas emission avoidance potential.
Upcoming Innovation Fund info days in EU countries.
Tailor-made support from the EIB to improve project maturity.
Get personal support in your country.
New funding opportunities going straight into your inbox.
Manage your EU funded project
Communication and visibility requirements
Necessary guidance and documents.
Disseminate acquired project knowledge.
Create your profile and find new partners
News
The Innovation Fund’s 2023 call for proposals for net-zero technologies (IF23 Call) has received 337 applications from 27 countries.
39 new, groundbreaking cleantech projects selected under the 2022 Innovation Fund large-scale call gathered for the first time with the European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) and the Directorate-General for Climate Action at the Cleantech Conference in Brussels.
