Energy renovation solutions - Making buildings’ renovation faster, deeper, affordable, smarter, service- and data-driven
LIFE Clean Energy Transition
Funding Amount
Up to €2.0M
Deadline
23/09/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution
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What is the Energy renovation solutions - Making buildings’ renovation faster, deeper, affordable, smarter, service- and data-driven Call?
Grant Description
This call supports transnational projects to accelerate energy renovation and improve building performance data across the European Union. Under Scope A, activities must remove market barriers, stimulate demand and deploy scalable business models to increase high-quality energy renovation rates, reduce costs and time, and improve construction sector capacity. Under Scope B, activities must enhance the reliability, consistency and market uptake of Energy Performance Certificates, Renovation Passp...
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
Scope A outcomes:
• Significant increase in the number and rate of standard and deep energy renovations
• Demonstrated reduction in renovation costs and time per building, with cost-effective, scalable business models
• Aggregated demand strategies triggering new investments in building energy renovation
• Measurable improvement in companies’ technical capacity and uptake of new products, materials and processes
• Adoption of industrialised and digitalised renovation processes across multiple actors in the supply chain
Scope B outcomes:
• Improved accuracy, reliability and market uptake of Energy Performance Certificates, evidenced by new EPC schemes and references used by public and private stakeholders
• Deployment of enhanced inspection and assessment tools for EPCs, Renovation Passports and SRI, demonstrating better quality and cost-effectiveness
• Increased availability, quality and use of building performance data by financial institutions, service providers and owners to enable innovative financing products
• Successful roll-out of Renovation Passports aligned with national EPBD frameworks, supported by demand-creation measures
• Robust data-integration methodologies facilitating measurement and monetisation of energy savings, comfort improvements and co-benefits
Common Clean Energy Transition sub-programme impacts:
• Primary and final energy savings (GWh/year)
• Renewable energy generation (GWh/year)
• Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (t CO2-eq/year)
• Cumulative investments in sustainable energy triggered (million EUR)
• Demonstrated quantification of impacts at project end and five years thereafter.
• Significant increase in the number and rate of standard and deep energy renovations
• Demonstrated reduction in renovation costs and time per building, with cost-effective, scalable business models
• Aggregated demand strategies triggering new investments in building energy renovation
• Measurable improvement in companies’ technical capacity and uptake of new products, materials and processes
• Adoption of industrialised and digitalised renovation processes across multiple actors in the supply chain
Scope B outcomes:
• Improved accuracy, reliability and market uptake of Energy Performance Certificates, evidenced by new EPC schemes and references used by public and private stakeholders
• Deployment of enhanced inspection and assessment tools for EPCs, Renovation Passports and SRI, demonstrating better quality and cost-effectiveness
• Increased availability, quality and use of building performance data by financial institutions, service providers and owners to enable innovative financing products
• Successful roll-out of Renovation Passports aligned with national EPBD frameworks, supported by demand-creation measures
• Robust data-integration methodologies facilitating measurement and monetisation of energy savings, comfort improvements and co-benefits
Common Clean Energy Transition sub-programme impacts:
• Primary and final energy savings (GWh/year)
• Renewable energy generation (GWh/year)
• Reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (t CO2-eq/year)
• Cumulative investments in sustainable energy triggered (million EUR)
• Demonstrated quantification of impacts at project end and five years thereafter.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
1. Choice of one evaluation scope (A or B) clearly identified in the proposal; any cross-scope approach must be explicitly justified.
2. Transnational implementation: activities must be carried out in more than one eligible country.
3. For Scope A: projects must address one or both of the following areas:
• Increasing renovation rates via demand aggregation, replicable business models and performance guarantees
• Improving construction-sector company capacity and productivity through industrialised processes, digitalisation and circular materials
4. For Scope B: projects must address one or more of:
• Enhancing EPC data quality, consistency and reliability via new assessment methods and data sources
• Improving transparency and market value of EPCs and RPs; rolling out Renovation Passports compatible with national EPBD schemes
• Digital tools for coordinated EPC/RP/SRI assessments
• Methodologies to collect and integrate building performance and energy data to support financing
5. Quantification of results and impacts using provided indicators (and any project-specific indicators) at end of project and 5 years post-project.
6. Alignment with the EU Renovation Wave strategy, revised EPBD and New European Bauhaus principles; exploration of synergies with Horizon 2020/Europe projects.
7. Consortium composition:
• Minimum of three independent beneficiaries from three different eligible countries (mandatory for Scope B; recommended for Scope A).
2. Transnational implementation: activities must be carried out in more than one eligible country.
3. For Scope A: projects must address one or both of the following areas:
• Increasing renovation rates via demand aggregation, replicable business models and performance guarantees
• Improving construction-sector company capacity and productivity through industrialised processes, digitalisation and circular materials
4. For Scope B: projects must address one or more of:
• Enhancing EPC data quality, consistency and reliability via new assessment methods and data sources
• Improving transparency and market value of EPCs and RPs; rolling out Renovation Passports compatible with national EPBD schemes
• Digital tools for coordinated EPC/RP/SRI assessments
• Methodologies to collect and integrate building performance and energy data to support financing
5. Quantification of results and impacts using provided indicators (and any project-specific indicators) at end of project and 5 years post-project.
6. Alignment with the EU Renovation Wave strategy, revised EPBD and New European Bauhaus principles; exploration of synergies with Horizon 2020/Europe projects.
7. Consortium composition:
• Minimum of three independent beneficiaries from three different eligible countries (mandatory for Scope B; recommended for Scope A).
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
• Single-stage submission by 23 September 2025, 17:00 Brussels time.
• Funding rate: up to 95% of eligible costs.
• EU contribution considered appropriate up to €2 million (other amounts may be proposed).
• Proposals must respect page limit and layout rules (Part B of the application form).
• Eligible countries, financial/operational capacity and exclusion criteria as per sections 6 and 7 of the call document.
• Award criteria, scoring, thresholds and evaluation timeline defined in sections 8–9 of the call document and the Online Manual.
• Legal and financial set-up governed by LIFE Regulation (2021/783), EU Financial Regulation (2024/2509) and the LIFE MGA.
• Proposals need not address all listed impacts and indicators but must establish clear causality between activities, results and impacts.
• Beneficiaries must comply with EU Grants AGA, Model Grant Agreement and portal terms and conditions.
• Funding rate: up to 95% of eligible costs.
• EU contribution considered appropriate up to €2 million (other amounts may be proposed).
• Proposals must respect page limit and layout rules (Part B of the application form).
• Eligible countries, financial/operational capacity and exclusion criteria as per sections 6 and 7 of the call document.
• Award criteria, scoring, thresholds and evaluation timeline defined in sections 8–9 of the call document and the Online Manual.
• Legal and financial set-up governed by LIFE Regulation (2021/783), EU Financial Regulation (2024/2509) and the LIFE MGA.
• Proposals need not address all listed impacts and indicators but must establish clear causality between activities, results and impacts.
• Beneficiaries must comply with EU Grants AGA, Model Grant Agreement and portal terms and conditions.
Important dates
Open from: 24/04/2025
Deadline:23/09/2025
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