MOOI industrial innovation grant
Grants for consortia developing industrial feedstock conversion or energy-hub technologies that help make industry climate-neutral and circular.
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MOOI: Industrie supports connected research and development towards a climate-neutral, circular industry integrated into the energy system. The 2026 mission covers two themes:
- Convert new carbon- and nitrogen-containing feedstocks, such as bio-based or synthetic methanol, synthesis gas or ammonia, efficiently into industrial products such as plastics, solvents or fertiliser. Carbon capture and long-term carbon storage are outside this theme, as are system changes without innovation in conversion technology and value chains.
- Develop technologies for industrial Multi-Commodity Energy Hubs: groups of companies connecting electricity, heat, hydrogen or other energy carriers. Research must show how the technologies fit into a hub. Building a hub without industrial technology research, or improving one isolated technology without examining its use in a hub, does not qualify.
The innovation must reach its first application within ten years of the project starting. This means demonstrating it in a working industrial environment by implementing it in part of an industrial process; full-scale rollout is not required.
The 2026 grant is capped at €4 million per project. Eligible project costs must be at least €2 million, with research organisations accounting for no more than 50%. Each funded participant must qualify for at least €25,000. A participant contributing without requesting a grant can count its costs only if those costs would generate at least €25,000 at the applicable grant rate.
Maximum rates are 60% of eligible costs for small businesses, 50% for medium-sized businesses and 40% for large businesses. Research organisations receive up to 80% for non-economic activities, such as independent research rather than commercial contract research. Business rates fall by 15 percentage points unless either: the collaboration includes an SME and no business bears more than 70% of eligible costs; or research organisations bear at least 10% and may publish their own research results.
Eligible research and development costs include staff, consumed materials, third-party work and machinery or equipment costs subject to depreciation and residual-value rules. Routine changes are not research and development. Other activities contributing to the project can also be supported, but their grant is limited to 5% of total eligible project costs, €350,000 per project and €300,000 per business. Other economic activities require a de-minimis declaration: the business and connected businesses must have room under the €300,000 limit over three consecutive years. For research organisations, only broad, non-exclusive and non-discriminatory dissemination of results qualifies as other non-economic activity.
Other national-government grants reduce the MOOI grant. The manual lists SDE++, Horizon 2020, EU-REACT, NOW and grants from provinces, municipalities, water boards and public bodies as not deducted in advance, but combined support must stay within the permitted aid ceiling.
Eligibility
- Substantiate how the technology works and its prospects for success in the Dutch market and society.
- Work in a varied consortium with at least three businesses that are independent of one another. Participants bear their own costs and risks, contribute meaningfully and involve future users or customers. You cannot outsource the entire project.
- Business recipients must have a permanent establishment or subsidiary in the Netherlands when subsidy is paid. This means a durable business presence with personnel and technical resources, rather than a mailbox. Foreign businesses without that presence may contribute without receiving subsidy. Eligible research organisations include universities, universities of applied sciences, Dutch applied-research institutions and equivalent foreign institutions.
- National government, provinces, municipalities and public bodies governed by the Dutch joint-arrangements law can participate but cannot receive this grant. Water boards can receive it.
- Secure and substantiate funding for your own share when applying. RVO must have confidence in technical and economic feasibility and the consortium’s ability to finance the work. Your own share cannot consist solely of your own working hours calculated at the fixed all-in hourly rate.
- Businesses must pass RVO’s financial-distress decision tool and submit the resulting decision summary and signed declaration. A business classed as an undertaking in difficulty can instead apply under de-minimis rules if sufficient allowance remains within the €300,000 three-year ceiling; it must still demonstrate sufficient project financing.
- Start no work, incur no project costs and enter no commitments before submitting the full application. Start within six months after the award and finish project activities within four years.
- With a research-organisation partner, send RVO a signed collaboration agreement before project activities start. It must cover contributions, risks, results and intellectual-property rights, preventing businesses from receiving indirect aid through the research partner.
- Plan to share project knowledge during the project; commercially sensitive information need not be shared. Other project activities exclude businesses in fisheries and aquaculture, primary agriculture and the agricultural-processing or marketing cases specified in the de-minimis regulation.
How to apply
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- Ανοίγει
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- Closed. Only timely complete preliminary registrations that received committee advice could progress; no direct entry at this stage.
- One full application per preliminary registration; advice was non-binding.
The 2026 round is closed. Compulsory preliminary registration ran from 17 March to 16 April 2026; full applications ran from 2 June to 3 September 2026. A full application required a timely complete preliminary registration and the MOOI advisory committee’s advice. New applicants could not enter directly at the second stage. Advice was non-binding, so a negative assessment did not prevent an improved full application; each preliminary registration could lead to only one full application.
The consortium appoints a lead participant, authorised by each partner, to submit through RVO’s online application service using eHerkenning level 3 with the RVO authorisation. The full application includes the project plan, budget, committee advice and applicable signed declarations and authorisations. It must be complete by the deadline; missing items cannot be added after the tender closes.
RVO ranks qualifying proposals competitively and funds the best projects until the budget is used. Existing applicants can view their application and submit project updates or the final subsidy-settlement request through the official MOOI application page. Projects lasting more than twelve months require annual progress reports.
The project plan must identify who does each activity, its costs and measurable milestones, with decision points showing when results determine whether work continues.