EcoBusiness Plan Vienna, Austria provides services and support to companies implementing environmentally-relevant measures, helping them to reduce operating costs. It funds consultancy services encouraging businesses to reduce their environmental impact. In individual meetings, consultants develop solutions tailored to the needs of each business. The offer includes professional advice, help with the practical implementation of measures, legal certainty, and effective public relations work.

The Circulator is a web-based tool developed in a framework of the project of the same name (funded by EIT Raw Materials) that helps companies to navigate potential circular strategies and learn from inspiring cases.

The tool helps SMEs incease their resilience, or their capacity to face and anticipate changes in the market. Resilience Design helps in the co-creation of sustainable and resilient projects to stimulate business and build a sustainable strategy. The tool offers several analysis methods and can be adapted to various business situations and sectors.

The Ecodynamic Enterprise Label rewards Brussels-based companies that introduce eco-management principles into their activities, especially in terms of waste management and prevention, rational use of energy, management of worker mobility, etc. The Label does not apply to eco-products or eco-services.

For detailed information you can contact the Label Helpdesk.

Construction and renovation projects requiring a town planning permit or notification must meet a number of requirements laid out in the EU's Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD), such as a maximum insulation level (K-level), maximum energy level (E-level), minimum share of renewable energy, and indoor climate quality (adequate ventilation, heating etc.).

The European Regional Development Funds (ERDF) are available to European regions and aim to bridge the gaps between European regions. Interreg programmes target cooperation between different regions. Both ERDF Flanders and ERFD Interreg programmes are centralised along several axes. Within some of those axes, specific SME investment in resource efficiency can be subsidised. For instance, within one of the axis of ERDF Flanders, there is a specific target on increasing SME energy efficiency, including company buildings and production processes.

The government of the Brussels-Capital Region helps organisations (business, non-profit and public) include circular economy principles in their activities. The programme offers several financial instruments to support the organisations: subsidies, grants, tax allowances, but also tools, good practices, training, etc.

Public tenders to support new cicular economy businesses (i.e. use waste as raw material, industrial ecology, eco-conception, etc.); funds to support circular projects; grants to launch sustainable entrepreneurship, and more.

Estonia supports investment in more resource-efficient solutions with a € 111 million fund focusing on SMEs and the manufacturing industry. Activities include raising awareness, training resource specialists/auditors, supporting resource audits and investments in resource-efficient solutions.

After conducting a detailed resource analysis and getting recommended resource-saving solutions from the experts who conducted the audit, the company can ask for funding for:

Estonia supports investment in more resource-efficient solutions with a € 111 million fund focusing on SMEs and the manufacturing industry. Activities include raising awareness, training resource specialists/auditors, supporting resource audits and investments in resource-efficient solutions.

This Operational Programme, draws on the EU's Structural Funds and Cohesion Fund for sustainable and efficient use of natural resources, ensuring environmental protection, active adaptation to climate change, and support for an energy efficient, low-carbon economy. The budget for the programme is € 3.2 billion for the period 2014-2020.