Deadline Date: February 19, 2026
The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) has launched an auction call for proposals under the Innovation Fund to support the market uptake of electrified and direct-renewable industrial process heat solutions.
The focus areas of the opportunity are the objective to reduce direct GHG emissions in industry by cost-effectively supporting the market uptake of electrified and direct-renewable industrial process heat for medium temperature heat and small capacity installations; and the activities that can be funded, including the production of industrial process heat between 100 °C and 400 °C and resulting in GHG abatement by projects electrifying industrial process heat via technologies such as heat pumps, direct and indirect resistance heating, electromagnetic and dielectric heating, plasma heating; or using direct-renewable solar thermal or geothermal heat for industrial heat processes; or hybrid projects of these technologies.
This call is implemented under the regulatory framework established by Regulation 2024/2509 and the Innovation Fund Regulation 2019/856 alongside the ETS Directive 2003/87. It operates under the 2025 Financing Decision and supports applicants seeking to contribute to industrial decarbonisation through innovative heat production technologies. The funding envelope available for this topic is EUR 350 000 000, intended to accelerate the transition toward low-carbon heat solutions across multiple industrial sectors.
Eligible applicants include legal entities from any country in the world, provided they are properly registered and validated in the EU Participant Register. International organisations are eligible, and entities without legal personality may participate if they can undertake legal obligations and provide sufficient financial guarantees. EU bodies, except for the European Commission Joint Research Centre, are not allowed to take part.
This opportunity targets projects capable of demonstrating measurable GHG abatement through electrified or renewable industrial heat systems, ensuring meaningful contribution to climate objectives while enhancing industrial innovation capacity.
For more information, visit European Commission.
