Subsidies, tax schemes and loans for innovation, investments and staff, organised by category.
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Tax credit on wage costs and other costs and expenses for research and development (R&D). Reduces the payroll tax payable, or income tax for self-employed entrepreneurs. Must be applied for before the R&D period.
Profit from self-developed innovations with an R&D declaration is taxed at an effective rate of 9%. Applied through the corporate income tax return.
A very broad focus area, mainly aimed at supporting SMEs with innovation and the transition to a low-carbon, green economy.
For regions hit hardest by the climate transition, focused on economic renewal and softening the negative effects on employment.
For companies that want to test or apply energy and climate innovations in a pilot or demonstration, resulting in CO₂ reduction or energy savings in the Netherlands.
Supports SMEs in exploring the feasibility of an innovation before large-scale R&D, and in R&D collaboration on new technology, including AI.
For (large) consortia doing R&D on practical system solutions for the energy transition. Minimum project costs €2,000,000.
Investigates whether an innovative sustainability measure in industry is technically and economically feasible, or maps out its environmental and CO₂ effects.
For partnerships doing research and development into cheaper, climate-neutral or circular products and services.
A risk-bearing loan, not a subsidy, for the technical or clinical development of an innovative product, process or service. Only repaid if successful. Minimum project costs €150,000.
Subsidy for partnerships of SMEs developing circular products, processes or services.
Regional innovation subsidy for SMEs in the northern Netherlands.
Funding for research and innovation in healthcare and prevention, through changing programmes and calls.
Funds high-risk, high-impact and deep-tech breakthrough innovations so they can scale up internationally fast, from early research to market launch.
Large-scale Research & Innovation Actions and Innovation Actions, aimed at large consortia across several countries.
Large public-private partnerships with multi-year agendas and their own calls, with a strong focus on industrial scale-up.
For the roll-out and demonstration of innovative net-zero and low-carbon technology to accelerate large-scale industrial decarbonisation.
International, market-oriented R&D collaboration with foreign partners. Projects are funded through national programmes.
Networks of businesses, education and research that help start-ups grow, with relatively small grants and a strong focus on knowledge sharing.
Mainly funds the roll-out and adoption of digital capabilities, not primarily fundamental research.
Funds projects that put environmental policy, nature restoration and climate action into practice.
EU programme under ERDF that funds cross-border, transnational and interregional collaboration.
Helps SMEs scale up internationally, including outside the EU, with demonstrations, feasibility studies and investment preparation.
European agricultural policy with subsidies for sustainability and innovation in the agricultural and biobased sector.
Tax scheme that lowers investment costs for energy-efficient business assets and technologies.
Tax benefit for businesses investing in environmentally friendly technologies.
Operating subsidy for projects that produce renewable energy or apply CO₂-reducing technologies, in industry, mobility, electricity, agriculture and the built environment.
Investment subsidy for manufacturing for a climate-neutral economy: lower investment costs for (components of) electrolysers, batteries and solar panels.
Investment subsidy for CO₂ reduction in industry.
For construction companies that buy, lease or rent out new zero-emission construction machinery or hydrogen-powered machines.
Subsidy for purchasing heat pumps, solar water heaters and other sustainable energy installations.
Subsidy for making public buildings, such as schools and healthcare facilities, more sustainable.
National investment scheme for industrial climate projects: direct CO₂ savings, large-scale process efficiency, electrification and hydrogen.
Helps SMEs and partnerships encourage learning and development in the workplace.
Contribution for employers offering work-based learning places, or supervising PhD candidates and engineering doctorate trainees.
Supports SMEs in purchasing technology that helps employees with a work-limiting disability at work or in finding work.
Aimed at people in a vulnerable position on the labour market: training, intake and guidance, absence costs and wage cost subsidy.
Retraining, upskilling and investments that contribute to the transition to a circular and climate-neutral economy in the region.
Have a strategic digitalisation or robotisation plan drawn up, or purchase and implement hardware and software.
Subsidy for partnerships between vocational education, businesses and government.
Indicative amounts and percentages per scheme. Conditions differ per funding round. Where it says "see rvo.nl", the current figures of the implementing agency apply. Scheme names are the official Dutch names where no English name exists.
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