Last chance to apply for EUCF Grant!

Municipalities, local authorities and their groupings as well as local public entities aggregating municipalities/local authorities have a huge potential to drive the energy transition in Europe. With tremendous potential to build comprehensive sustainable energy investment programmes, they can play a key role in pooling smaller projects into larger investment portfolios and in mobilizing significant financial resources for the energy transition. The EUCF will bridge the gap and unlock this local potential to enable municipalities/local authorities and local public entities aggregating municipalities/local authorities in Europe to develop relevant investment concepts.

So far, 6 calls for applications have supported +300 municipalities in Europe to speed up their investments.

The 7th and last call for applications opens on October 15 and closes on December 18, 2024.

EUCF offers €60,000 in lump-sum payments and hands-on support for local actors to develop investment concepts on clean energy and energy efficiency. This grant will allow beneficiaries to act on their needs related to developing investment concepts in support of their sustainable energy and climate plans. 

Previously, beneficiaries have used the funding to conduct a wide variety of actions, including technical feasibility studies, market analyses, stakeholder planning, or legal, economic and financial analyses, but the specific action is up to the applicants, within the topical areas of clean energy or energy efficiency. 

Application process 

Applying for the funding is simple and requirements are similar to previous calls of the Facility and asks for proven political support, potential investment size, feasible energy-related impacts, and plans for governance structure and stakeholder engagement. This information is comparable to what’s needed before accessing most public funding or private financing.  

For the chosen beneficiaries the offer from the European City Facility goes beyond the funding, and includes capacity building, matchmaking offers and dedicated financing tools, all pushing a project idea one step closer to being matched with either private or public financing.  

The EUCF team will present the call and answers questions about the application process in a dedicated EU info-session on October 22, from 15:00 to 16:00 CET.

The deadline to apply for the grant is 17.00 CET on 18 December 2024. 
More information is available on https://www.eucityfacility.eu