Climate Change: Seed funding for early-stage innovations, research, entrepreneurial projects, or policy work focused on… Grant
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This call is open to startups, non-profits and universities and 2 others, at idea and R&D stage, prototype and pilot stage and pre-seed. Funding is a grant of Up to $111,000. Coverage is read from the notice itself: any country.
Seed funding for early-stage climate action innovations, research, entrepreneurial projects, and policy work. Eligible applicants include startups, researchers, nonprofits, and policy organizations working on climate mitigation and adaptation solutions.
About this grant
The Toni Piëch Foundation is a Swiss-linked foundation that aims to accelerate positive change by helping innovations and innovators solve real problems and deliver sustainable impact. It concentrates on three areas it considers most urgent: climate action, the global energy transition, and the future of cities and construction, with communication and storytelling as a cross-cutting lens. The foundation notes that the construction sector is a major greenhouse gas emitter and that the built environment shapes resilience, health and societal functioning. The foundation provides seed funding, within a range of 10,000 to 100,000 CHF per year, to help promising early-stage projects gain traction. It funds scientific research, entrepreneurial projects, and policy work, viewed through an innovation and communication lens. Projects must align with the foundation's values of protecting the earth while allowing human societies to thrive. Grant applications are accepted only by invitation and only within the programmatic focus. The foundation works through partners and projects intended to foster broader conversations about a liveable future and to empower networks of like-minded people. Recent publications include a changemaker's guide on transitioning to a regenerative built environment, produced with Bauhaus Earth.
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Eligibility
Applications are accepted only by invitation from the foundation and only within its programmatic focus areas of climate change, energy transition, and future of cities and construction. Projects must be early-stage and in line with the foundation's values. No geographic or organisation-type restriction is stated on the page.
How it's scored
The page states that applications are considered through an innovation and communication lens and that the foundation seeks to help promising projects at an early stage gain traction. Projects must align with the foundation's values. No scoring weights or panel composition are disclosed.
Key requirements
- ✓Early-stage innovation, research, entrepreneurial project, or policy work focused on climate action
- ✓Grants range from 10,000–100,000 CHF per year
- ✓Funder: Toni Piëch Foundation
Frequently asked questions
- How much funding does Toni Piëch Foundation offer?
- Climate Change: Seed funding for early-stage innovations, research, entrepreneurial projects, or policy work focused on… offers up to $111K.
- Who can apply for Climate Change: Seed funding for early-stage innovations, research, entrepreneurial projects, or policy work focused on…?
- Eligibility covers organisations in GLOBAL; startup, nonprofit, university, research-institution, social-enterprise. See the eligibility criteria above for the full conditions.
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