Climate Software and Data grants
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Climate software is the hardest sustainability category to fund non-dilutively, most public-money programmes require capex deployment or hardware, and software-only plays compete in narrower calls. The strongest options are EU Horizon Cluster 4 (Digital), Innovate UK Smart Grants, EIT Climate-KIC, EU Pathfinder, ARPA-E SCALEUP, and Breakthrough Energy Catalyst Software. ARIA UK is opening to software-led decarbonisation in 2026. Listed below are the open climate software and data grant calls in that landscape, taken from each funder's own notice and re-checked on every refresh.
Funding for the enabling layers, data, software, finance infrastructure and community-facing work, comes from innovation agencies such as Innovate UK, the European Innovation Council and Horizon Cluster 4, environmental protection agencies, and a significant amount of foundation money on the justice and equity side. Software-only proposals are eligible far more often than teams assume, though several programmes still require a hardware or deployment partner.
This page lists open climate software and data grants currently tracked by Raise Lens — 562 of them right now, sorted with the soonest deadline first. Every listing has been classified against the sustainability taxonomy rather than matched on keywords, so what appears here is climate software and data work rather than anything whose description happens to mention it.
The funders publishing climate software and data grants here include 51660589, 51102019, 51106210, among 2 others. Who is funding matters as much as what: eligibility, reporting burden and the realistic timeline to a decision vary far more between funders than between individual calls.
Geographic coverage on this page spans EUROPE, GLOBAL, AFRICA, LAC, LATAM. Eligibility is usually tied to where the work happens or where the applying organisation is registered, and the two are not always the same — worth checking before investing time in an application.
17 of these close within the next 30 days. Deadlines are taken from the source listing and re-checked on every refresh, but the originating funder remains the authority — always confirm against the official notice before you submit.
Coordination of the European software-defined vehicle platform
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This is a Coordination and Support Action (CSA) grant funding the coordination of the European software-defined vehicle platform, a key initiative under the EU's Chips Joint Undertaking for 2026. The grant supports consortia to coordinate research, standardization, and deployment activities around software-defined vehicles, a critical technology for the automotive sector's digital and electrification transition.
technical Assistance preparation of CLIMA SIPs
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This grant provides technical assistance funding (up to €200,000) to help organizations prepare Sectoral Integration Plans (SIPs) under the EU's CLIMA programme, supporting climate mitigation policy development. It is designed for entities developing climate strategies and sectoral decarbonization roadmaps within the LIFE funding framework.
Climate Governance and Information
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This is a European Union LIFE Programme grant supporting climate governance and information projects, offering up to €4 million per project to advance climate policy implementation and knowledge-sharing. It targets public authorities, NGOs, and other organizations working on climate mitigation and adaptation governance across EU member states and associated countries.
Fostering competences for the green transition
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This Horizon Europe grant funds research and innovation actions to develop competences, skills, and training programmes that support the green energy transition, with emphasis on education, digital tools, and social sciences. It targets consortia (universities, research institutions, training providers, and industry partners) across EU member states and associated countries.
Standardising and supporting climate services for climate adaptation
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This Horizon Europe grant funds the standardisation, development, and deployment of climate services to support climate adaptation across Europe and partner regions. It targets research institutions, consortia, and public bodies working to operationalise climate information systems that help communities and sectors adapt to climate impacts.
Monitoring soil health in practice: equipping stakeholders to sample, analyse, and interpret soil health indicators
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This Horizon Europe grant funds the development and deployment of practical tools and methodologies for stakeholders to monitor soil health through sampling, analysis, and interpretation of soil indicators. It supports the EU's Soil Deal for Europe Mission and targets farmers, land managers, researchers, and policymakers who need to assess and maintain soil quality.
Towards a European network of ocean technology testing sites
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This grant funds the establishment and coordination of a European network of ocean technology testing sites to advance marine innovation and ocean observation capabilities. It supports infrastructure, digital tools, and collaborative frameworks for testing ocean technologies aligned with the EU's Restore our Ocean and Waters Mission.
Regional (sea-basins) components of the EU Digital Twin Ocean
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This grant funds the development of regional sea-basin components for the EU Digital Twin Ocean, a digital infrastructure for ocean observation, monitoring, and operational forecasting. It targets research institutions, consortia, and organizations implementing the EU's Restore our Ocean and Waters Mission through advanced oceanographic data systems and AI-driven ocean intelligence.
Leveraging long-term field experiments and other datasets to develop AI-ready decision support systems for sustainable soil management
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This Horizon Europe grant funds the development of AI-powered decision support systems for sustainable soil management, leveraging long-term field experiments and monitoring datasets. It targets research institutions and consortia across Europe working on soil science, biodiversity, and digital agriculture to advance the EU's Soil Deal for Europe Mission.
FY 2024–2026 Broad Agency Announcement
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NOAA's Broad Agency Announcement solicits new research and project proposals aligned with NOAA's strategic priorities across ocean, atmospheric, fisheries, and environmental satellite domains. Eligible entities include universities, nonprofits, research institutions, and other organizations working on NOAA mission-aligned climate, ocean, weather, and environmental science initiatives.
New technologies and innovation: digitalisation of road transport - works
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This grant funds infrastructure works and projects that digitalize road transport through new technologies and innovation, including autonomous vehicles and smart mobility systems. It targets transport authorities, infrastructure operators, and consortia implementing CEF-eligible smart and interoperable mobility infrastructure across Europe.
Enhanced resilience in multimodal passenger transport through digital technologies and generative and discriminative AI
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This Horizon Europe Innovation Action funds research and deployment of digital technologies and AI (generative and discriminative) to enhance resilience in multimodal passenger transport systems. It targets consortia developing solutions that integrate AI, digital infrastructure, and transport resilience to improve system robustness and passenger experience.
Generative AI for smarter CCAM: enhancing perception, decision-making, and validation
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This Horizon Europe research call funds development of generative AI technologies to enhance perception, decision-making, and validation capabilities for Connected, Cooperative, and Automated Mobility (CCAM) systems. It targets consortia of research institutions, industry, and technology providers working on AI-driven autonomous vehicle and mobility solutions.
Supporting sustainable and smart urban mobility in Europe
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This Horizon Europe grant supports the development and deployment of sustainable and smart urban mobility solutions across European cities, with funding up to €4 million. It targets cities, consortia, and research institutions working on low-emission transport, digital mobility systems, and climate-neutral urban transport transitions.
Increasing competitiveness and resilience of multimodal freight transport and logistics for competitive supply chains
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This Horizon Europe grant funds innovation in multimodal freight transport and logistics systems to enhance competitiveness and resilience of supply chains. It targets research, development, and deployment projects that integrate digital technologies and sustainable practices across rail, road, maritime, and air freight modes.
Flagship-pilot: large-scale demonstrations of CCAM
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This is a large-scale demonstration funding call under the EU's Horizon Europe programme supporting Connected, Cooperative and Automated Mobility (CCAM) deployments and pilot projects. It targets consortia implementing real-world CCAM solutions to advance sustainable and intelligent mobility systems across Europe.
Global Competition for Climate and Environmental Business Ideas 2026
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ClimateLaunchpad Global Competition 2026 is the world's largest green business ideas competition offering free boot camps, coaching, and mentorship to climate-focused startup founders across 51 countries. Participants progress through national, regional, and global finals to develop and validate their climate innovation business models.
Quantum Genesis Q Competition from a US federal energy agency
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The DOE Quantum Genesis Q Competition funds quantum computing research and development projects aligned with renewable energy and clean energy innovation. The competition is open to organizations working on quantum technologies that advance the Department of Energy's clean energy and sustainability goals.
Advancing atmospheric and aerial autonomy
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This grant funds proof-of-concept development and deployment of autonomous systems for atmospheric science research and environmental monitoring. Applicants must be based at UK research organisations eligible for NERC funding.
FY2026 Earth System Science and Services Partnership
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This grant funds collaborative research, monitoring, modeling, and service development to advance understanding and prediction of Earth system changes (atmosphere, oceans, coasts, land, ice) and their impacts on weather, ecosystems, and communities. It targets scientists and professionals working with NOAA on climate and Earth science priorities through partnerships.
Reimagining Circularity: full stage
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This is a three-year NetworkPlus funding call from EPSRC and Defra to build research capacity and strengthen community capabilities in circular economy, specifically focused on data/metrics or textiles. Eligible applicants are UK research organisations funded by EPSRC.
Climate security and civil preparedness – new ways to develop pre- and post-crisis climate-change related scenarios for a more resilient Europe
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This Horizon Europe grant funds research and innovation to develop climate-change scenario modelling and crisis-management tools that enhance Europe's resilience to climate-related disasters. It targets consortia of research institutions, public authorities, and end-users to create pre- and post-crisis situational awareness capabilities and validate advanced technologies for civil preparedness.
Multi-hazard approach and cumulative / cascading impacts
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This funder call funds development and validation of next-generation multi-hazard risk assessment and disaster-resilience systems that integrate cascading and cumulative effects across meteorological, geophysical, and technological hazards. Projects should improve early warning, forecasting, data interoperability, and decision-support tools for disaster risk management affecting societies, economies, and critical infrastructure.
Transformative sustainable AI technologies
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This grant funds high-risk, speculative research projects aimed at making future AI systems more sustainable, with up to £602,500 available per project. Applicants must be based at UK research organisations eligible for UKRI funding.
Additional activities for the European Partnership on Agriculture of Data
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This Horizon Europe call funds additional activities under the European Partnership on Agriculture of Data, supporting digital innovation, data infrastructure, and AI applications in precision agriculture and farm management. It targets consortia developing data-driven solutions for sustainable and smart farming across Europe.
Environmental Impact Assessment Grant
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This grant funds predictive environmental impact assessments, impact modeling studies, and stakeholder engagement for small-scale field tests of new climate intervention technologies. It targets researchers and organizations conducting early-stage testing and evaluation of climate solutions.
Environmental Impact Assessment Grants
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Grants up to $75,000 to fund predictive environmental impact assessments, impact modeling studies, and stakeholder engagement for small-scale field tests of new climate intervention technologies. Eligible applicants include organizations conducting early-stage climate technology pilots with a focus on rigorous environmental evaluation.
Data sharing to support the training and development of AI foundation models in the energy sector
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This Horizon Europe call funds data-sharing initiatives and AI foundation model development specifically for the energy sector, supporting digital transformation and decarbonization. Eligible applicants include research institutions, companies, and consortia across EU member states and associated countries.
The Genesis Mission: Transforming Science and Energy with AI
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The Genesis Mission funds interdisciplinary teams developing AI models and workflows to accelerate scientific discovery and R&D across energy, environmental, and nuclear challenges aligned with DOE priorities. Eligible applicants include National Laboratories, academia, U.S. industry, and consortia, with Phase I small-team and Phase II large-team tracks across nine topic areas.
ROSES 2025: A.4 Rapid Response and Novel Research in Earth Science
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NASA's ROSES 2025 A.4 program funds rapid-response and novel research projects in Earth science, including climate and environmental monitoring. The program is open to researchers and institutions capable of conducting innovative Earth science investigations with flexible timelines and funding amounts.
Start Path Emerging Fintech Program
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The funder's Start Path Emerging Fintech Program funds innovative later-stage fintech and climate startups with product-market fit and revenue generation, focusing on solutions that advance banking, payments, commerce, sustainability, and financial inclusion. The program targets experienced founders building solutions aligned with the funder's strategy across fintech, climate tech, and sustainable economy sectors.
Tribal Colleges Research Grants Program
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This grant funds research capacity development at tribal colleges in agriculture, natural resources, and human sciences, with emphasis on innovative agricultural technologies including AI, data science, and robotics. It targets undergraduate student training to prepare them for competitive careers in agriculture and related digital-forward fields.
Automated Scientific Discovery – Food (RAISE pilot)
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This Horizon Europe RAISE pilot funds automated scientific discovery and research automation applied to food systems, alternative proteins, and food ingredients—leveraging AI, robotics, and self-driving labs to accelerate innovation. It targets research institutions and consortia across the EU seeking to deploy cutting-edge laboratory automation and precision fermentation technologies.
Africa-EU CO-FUND action on climate
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This is a co-funded research and innovation call under Horizon Europe supporting climate action projects with Africa-EU collaboration. It targets climate mitigation, adaptation, and digital solutions with up to €15M available for consortia-based R&D and deployment projects.
Assessing the performance of policy instruments to inform climate change mitigation action
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This Horizon Europe research and innovation call funds projects assessing the effectiveness and performance of climate change mitigation policy instruments to generate evidence for better policy design and implementation. It targets research institutions, consortia, and organizations across EU member states and associated countries working on climate policy evaluation, digital tools, and AI-enabled analysis.
Advancing understanding, modelling and prediction of extreme events in a changing climate
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This Horizon Europe research and innovation call funds collaborative projects to advance scientific understanding, modelling, and prediction of extreme weather and climate events in the context of climate change. It targets research institutions, universities, and consortia across EU and partner regions to develop tools and knowledge for climate risk assessment and adaptation.
Palaeoclimate science for a better understanding of Earth system dynamics
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This Horizon Europe research grant funds palaeoclimate science and Earth system dynamics research to advance understanding of climate processes and their implications. It targets research institutions and consortia across EU member states and associated countries, with up to €14M available for Research and Innovation Actions.
Better understanding and attribution of land and ocean carbon sources and sinks
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This Horizon Europe research and innovation call funds collaborative projects to improve understanding, monitoring, and attribution of carbon sources and sinks in land and ocean ecosystems, with emphasis on digital tools, AI, and data infrastructure. It targets research institutions, consortia, and organizations across EU, Africa, and LAC regions working on climate mitigation science and blue/green economy solutions.
Understanding and avoiding maladaptation to climate change
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This Horizon Europe research and innovation call funds projects to understand climate maladaptation—unintended negative consequences of adaptation measures—and develop strategies to avoid them. It targets research institutions, consortia, and organizations across EU member states and associated countries working on climate adaptation science, policy, and implementation.
Next generation scenarios for informing climate and sustainability transitions
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This Horizon Europe research and innovation call funds next-generation climate and sustainability scenario development to inform policy and transition pathways. It targets consortia of research institutions, universities, and innovation actors across Europe and international partners to co-design integrated assessment models, climate scenarios, and sustainability transition frameworks.
Energy efficiency and sustainability of AI data processing in Data Centres (IA)
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This Horizon Europe Innovation Action funds research and deployment projects to improve energy efficiency and sustainability of AI data processing in data centres, addressing the growing energy footprint of AI workloads. Eligible applicants include universities, research institutions, companies, and consortia across EU member states and associated countries.
Gateway, Direct TA and MEL
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FCDO is funding CLEAN to provide three integrated services: a Gateway website for climate and environment mainstreaming guidance, direct technical assistance on Paris Agreement alignment, and monitoring/evaluation of UK ODA climate commitments. This is a direct service-delivery contract to support UK government climate policy implementation and donor alignment.
Climate, Environment And Nature (CLEAN) Helpdesk
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CLEAN is a technical assistance helpdesk facility funded by UK FCDO to support programme teams with climate mainstreaming, Paris Alignment compliance, and nature-proofing across international climate finance initiatives. The facility succeeds the Climate Mainstreaming Facility and provides advisory services on climate policy integration and environmental safeguards.
Large scale operational validation and upscaling of state-of-the-art (Generative) AI tools and models powering a next generation digital energy system
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This Horizon Europe Innovation Action funds large-scale operational validation and deployment of generative AI and advanced AI tools to modernize and optimize digital energy systems. It targets consortia (research institutions, industry, SMEs) across EU member states and associated countries to translate state-of-the-art AI into next-generation grid, storage, and energy-management solutions.
Tools and technologies to support health adaptation to climate change
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This Horizon Europe grant funds the development and deployment of tools, technologies, and early-warning systems to help health systems and communities adapt to climate change impacts, including heat stress, air pollution, and climate-sensitive diseases. It targets research institutions, consortia, and innovation actors across EU member states and associated countries.
Data-driven circular economy for e-mobility ecosystem
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This Horizon Europe Innovation Action funds data-driven solutions for circular economy models in the e-mobility sector, supporting the transition to sustainable electric vehicle ecosystems. It targets consortia developing digital tools, AI, and FAIR data infrastructure to optimize battery reuse, recycling, and resource efficiency across the e-mobility value chain.
Autonomous vessels in short sea shipping and inland waterways
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This Horizon Europe Innovation Action funds development and deployment of autonomous vessel technologies for short sea shipping and inland waterway transport, advancing decarbonization and digitalization of maritime logistics. Eligible applicants include research institutions, SMEs, large companies, and consortia across EU member states and associated countries.
Fire prevention and mitigation for EVs in confined areas
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This Horizon Europe Innovation Action funds research and development of fire prevention and mitigation technologies for electric vehicles in confined spaces (e.g., underground parking, tunnels, ferries). It targets consortia of research institutions, industry, and SMEs across EU member states and associated countries.