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One-Stop-Shops for clean energy transition

Open
Annual
Grant
Tier C
LIFE-2026-CET-OSS

Establishing and scaling one-stop-shops that deliver integrated renovation services for households and public buildings.

Climate mitigation / energy
Urban regeneration

Description

Objective

Supports the creation or replication of One-Stop Shops (OSS) for the clean energy transition in private buildings, in line with the EED, the EPBD, and the Commission Recommendation on one-stop shops. Addresses the gap between fragmented demand (private owners lacking the capacity to navigate complex sustainable-energy improvements) and limited supply (developers facing high delivery costs and limited access to financing).

Market segments (proposals must focus on one)

  • Residential buildings owned by a physical person (owner-occupied or rental housing)
  • Residential buildings owned by a professional landlord
  • Commercial tertiary buildings, in particular those occupied by SMEs

Integrated services typically delivered by an OSS

Technical assessment and renovation design; selection of qualified professionals and contractors; contracting and coordination of works; facilitation and/or provision of financing solutions (e.g. loans); supervision of works, performance verification and quality assurance.

Key requirements

Proposals should establish OSS services that reduce complexity and trigger first investments through pilots, build dedicated structures (legal entities or organisational consortia) capable of delivering end-to-end renovation services, demonstrate sustainable business models that minimise reliance on public funding, and articulate clear progress beyond comparable initiatives in the national context.

What this means for cities and regions

Cities and regional energy agencies often lead or co-found One-Stop Shops, sometimes as joint ventures with banks, installers and chambers of commerce. Single applicant allowed; topic budget €9M at 95% co-financing.

Key facts

Submission deadline

September 16th, 2026

16 September 2026, 17:00 (Brussels time)

Published

April 21st, 2026

Opens

April 21st, 2026

Programme

LIFE Programme

Total envelope

Per project

Expected grants

Co-funding rate

Eligibility

Eligible countries

AT
BE
BG
HR
CY
CZ
DK
EE
FI
FR
DE
EL
HU
IE
IT
LV
LT
LU
MT
NL
PL
PT
RO
SK
SI
ES
SE
IS
LI
NO
AL
ME
MK
RS
BA
TR
UA
MD
GE
AM

Eligible NUTS regions

Eligible organisation types

Municipality
Intermunicipal authority
Region (NUTS2)
Province (NUTS3)
Public utility
Public transport operator
Regional development agency
National authority

Min. consortium size

Min. partner countries

Eligibility notes

Who can apply

  • Legal entities, public or private — municipalities, regions, intermunicipal authorities, public utilities, public transport operators, regional development agencies, NGOs, SMEs and large enterprises all qualify.
  • Established in EU-27 (including Overseas Countries and Territories), EEA countries (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway), or countries associated to LIFE 2021–2027.
  • The coordinator must be established in an eligible country.

Consortium rule for this topic

Proposals can be submitted by a single applicant from an eligible country (no minimum consortium size).

Restrictions and special cases

  • Natural persons are not eligible, except sole traders.
  • International organisations are eligible; the eligible-country rules do not apply to them.
  • EU bodies cannot participate, except the Joint Research Centre.
  • Financial support to third parties is not allowed (except where the topic explicitly provides for it).
  • Co-financing rate: 95% of eligible costs (standard for LIFE CET Coordination and Support Actions).

EU restrictive measures (TEU Article 29 / TFEU Article 215) and EU conditionality measures (Regulation 2020/2092) apply. Currently this excludes Hungarian public-interest trusts established under Hungarian Act IX of 2021, or any entity they maintain (Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/2506, 16 December 2022).

Classification

Thematic domains

Climate mitigation / energy
Urban regeneration

Activity types

plan_development
demonstration
capacity_building

Space relevance

Tier C — space tools could plausibly support the call but aren't named.

Space services

Sources

EU Funding & Tenders Portal

LIFE-2026-CET-OSS

Ingested May 20th, 2026

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