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EU Innovation Fund - Industrial Process Heat Auction

Innovation Fund Industrial Heat Auction (IF25/IF26 Heat Auction)

Status

Usually opens in December and February

Projected from the months this call usually opens — not a date the funder has confirmed.

Opens soon

Projected from the pattern of past calls — confirm on the funder's page before planning around it.

Amount
Not published

IF25 Heat Auction budget up to EUR 1 billion; a second round in 2026 also carries a EUR 1 billion budget. Support is auctioned to the most cost-effective CO2 abatement bids.

Funder

European Commission (DG CLIMA) / CINEA

public · supranational

Deadline: One call a year — IF25 Heat Auction closed (19 Feb 2026; 85 bids, EUR 1 billion budget oversubscribed 1.4x). The IF26 Heat Auction call opens in December 2026.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
quick

Quick — mostly identity and bank details.

Who can apply

Open to all industrial sectors and project sizes; technologies include heat pumps, electric boilers, resistance and induction heating, solar thermal and geothermal, and hybrids.

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/eu-funding-climate-action/innovation-fund/calls-proposals_en

"A second round of the IF Heat Auction will be held in 2026 with a budget of EUR 1 billion."

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: climate.ec.europa.eu

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