One-Stop-Shops for clean energy transition
Establishing and scaling one-stop-shops that deliver integrated renovation services for households and public buildings.
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
16 September 2026, 17:00 (Brussels time)
Published
Opens
Programme
Parent call
Total envelope
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Expected grants
Co-funding rate
Eligibility
Eligible countries
Eligible NUTS regions
—Eligible organisation types
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).
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Activity types
Space relevance
Tier C — space tools could plausibly support the call but aren't named.
Space services
Sources
LIFE-2026-CET-OSS
Ingested May 20th, 2026
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