Environmental technology development grants
Grants for companies, researchers and other applicants developing and testing environmental technology, including flood prevention and drought adaptation.
Esta oportunidade está atualmente disponível em inglês.
MUDP funds technology development, testing and demonstration. The 2026 priorities include methods for preventing floods and adapting to drought, including nature-based solutions. The terms below describe the closed 2026 round.
Funding depends on the activity and each applicant’s company-size classification:
- Industrial research, which develops new knowledge and skills for new or improved products, processes or services: up to 50% of eligible project costs for large companies, 60% for medium companies and 70% for small companies.
- Feasibility studies before research or experimental development: up to 50% of eligible study costs for large companies, 60% for medium companies and 70% for small companies.
- Experimental development, including testing and demonstration of new or improved solutions: up to 25% of eligible project costs for large companies, 35% for medium companies and 45% for small companies.
These are ceilings; the board can award less. Ownership links to other companies affect the size assessment. Publicly owned companies, universities and knowledge institutions are treated as large companies.
Eligible costs include project staff, travel, external expertise and directly related operating costs. Staff costs use actual wages and project hours plus documented project overhead. Costs included in overhead cannot also be claimed elsewhere in the budget. The overhead audit-certificate requirement excludes state institutions subject to state audit. An owner who is neither employed by the company nor paid a salary can instead claim up to DKK 350 per hour for developer, technician or support work, plus project overhead. Equipment costs cover depreciation during its project use, rather than the whole purchase price. Buildings follow the same project-use depreciation rule, with possible exceptions when the technology being developed concerns the building itself; rent can cover the project-use period.
The grant reimburses actual eligible spending at the approved rates. Payments normally occur at most twice a year, including the final payment.
Eligibility
- Private and publicly owned companies, public and private research institutions, self-governing institutions, trade organisations, associations and groups of these applicants, and individuals can apply. Public authorities, including municipalities and regions, cannot be lead applicants or co-applicants.
- Companies with a commercial interest in the results must help drive the project. Explain the technology’s novelty, environmental benefits and route to customers, with concrete estimates of environmental and business effects. Improved existing technology can qualify; the programme is not restricted to completely new inventions.
- You must provide the required own contribution. Companies in payment suspension or bankruptcy, companies unable to finance their contribution, and companies with an outstanding recovery order for unlawful EU state aid are excluded. The 2026 call also excludes an “undertaking in difficulty” under Article 2(59) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2472; the required declaration must establish that the company is not in difficulty when the grant is awarded.
- Do not start the project before the grant award. Starting earlier prevents payment.
- Other public grants towards the same eligible costs must stay within the applicable maximum public-funding percentage. If another programme awards your project aid under the EU’s de minimis rules, the project cannot receive MUDP support. Publicly owned companies cannot use other public money as their own contribution.
- Research institutions and other bodies mixing economic activities, such as contract research, with their core non-economic activities must keep their costs and funding separate. Contract research and other economic activities must be priced on market terms covering full costs plus a reasonable margin.
- Patent applications and patent searches, marketing, obtaining authority approvals and preparing or entering contracts are not eligible costs. If subcontractors account for more than 30% of the total project budget, explain why their work is needed and cannot be performed by the applicants.
The guide directs applications mainly focused on energy, such as energy efficiency, to EUDP, and those focused on agriculture and food to GUDP.
Projects can take place in Denmark or abroad, and foreign applicants can use an equivalent national identification number. Overseas projects must address significant local environmental problems with new Danish environmental technology. Repeating a test already performed under the same conditions does not qualify. Describe country-specific challenges, your experience there and the technology’s growth and export potential, and help arrange any inspections. Clearly separate the supported work from any wider local project.
If the project has no connection to the applicant’s existing activities in that country, or the company has no activities there, include an initial phase for permits, a detailed schedule and any partner agreements. Payment for later phases depends on obtaining the necessary local and national approvals. The 2026 guide excludes costs of obtaining approvals and preparing contracts.
All partners must keep project time records and provide expenditure documents when requested. Publish the project results, with possible allowance for patents and intellectual-property protection, and provide information on longer-term effects after completion. Submit project changes to MUDP; minor budget reallocations need only notification where the award letter allows this. Safeguard supported equipment during the project, including insurance. For five years after completion, supported equipment and software cannot be transferred, rented out or repurposed without the board’s approval.
How to apply
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- Closed 2026 round. Terms describe this historical call.
The 2026 round is closed. Use MUDP’s official round page to check its application materials and subsequent announcements.
For the 2026 round, the lead applicant submitted the signed application and required attachments through MUDP’s digital self-service module using MitID. A foreign company acting as lead applicant instead submitted directly to the secretariat by email at ecoinnovation@mst.dk. Prepare the project timetable, key staff CVs, MUDP budget spreadsheet, each applicant’s latest annual accounts or an audited first-year budget for a newly established company without approved annual accounts, and the required non-difficulty declarations for co-applicants.
Most of the application can be in English, but the main information, short project description and budget must be in Danish. An English application also needs a substantial Danish summary covering purpose, scope and main results.
The lead applicant coordinates reporting and final accounts. Final payment requires Miljøstyrelsen to approve the final report and accounts, including the required audit documentation, and all partners and the project leader to complete the closing questionnaires. The regulation requires an audit where the project grant exceeds DKK 100,000, with an exception for recipients supervised by Rigsrevisionen, Denmark’s National Audit Office; this does not remove the duty to submit accounts and reports.