Deadline: 31 October 2025
Do you want to help make the city climate-neutral? Do you have a business idea to reduce greenhouse gases, and are you eager to bring it to life in Vienna? Are you working on a development proposal for more efficient use of resources and energy, or are you planning to implement environmentally friendly machines in the future? Are you planning to launch a circular product, or are you looking to conserve biodiversity? If yes, then this call is for you!
They provide the Vienna Planet Fund to assist companies, both local and international, as well as founders from all business sectors, in developing climate-friendly products, technologies, or services.
Funding Information
- Maximum funding amount: 250,000 euros per project
- Minimum project value: 30,000 euros
- Funding rate: 45%
- Women’s bonus: 10,000 euros.
- Startup bonus: 5,000 euros.
- The women’s bonus is awarded if your development proposal is managed by a woman with the necessary qualifications. If a new company is founded as part of the development proposal, they’ll also pay a startup bonus.
- Maximum project duration: 2 years
Eligible Costs
- Consultation and development costs, costs for patent registrations, as well as training and professional development, payroll costs, costs for machines, devices, equipment, consumables, intellectual property rights, and licenses.
Eligibility Criteria
- Austrian and international companies that implement their climate project in Vienna. Existing small, medium-sized and large companies as well as company founders in Vienna. They also support universities, universities of applied sciences, associations or non-university research institutions as part of partnership funding applications.
Application Requirements
- A duly completed online funding application, an application confirmation, as well as a de minimis declaration, your latest annual financial statements, and/or an income statement.
For more information, visit Vienna Business Agency.
