Grants for individuals: housing, mobility, training

Support for individuals falls into three main families. Each has its own dedicated sub-page and free simulator.

• Housing grants: housing allowances, energy renovation grants, home-ownership incentives, rental guarantees. These exist in most member states in very different forms.
• Mobility grants: incentives to buy clean vehicles, driving-licence support, transport help for jobseeking or training.
• Training grants: vocational training funding, individual learning accounts, scholarships, retraining schemes.

Each area follows a different logic. Housing grants often depend on your income and family situation; mobility grants target the green transition or the return to work; training grants generally fall under employment and lifelong-learning policy.

Contrary to popular belief, there is no single European catalogue of grants for individuals. The European Union sets broad directions (energy transition, sustainable mobility, lifelong learning) but each member state designs and funds its own schemes.

In practice, an energy-renovation grant in Germany (via KfW) looks nothing like its French, Spanish or Polish equivalent. The amounts, income conditions, supporting documents and administering bodies differ each time.

Each simulator asks a few questions about your situation (country of residence, income, project) then cross-references your answers with a database of real schemes. You get a list of grants you are likely to access, with a cautious estimate of the amounts and a link to the official sources.

We do not ask for any unnecessary sensitive data and we never invent figures: when reliable information is not available, we say so clearly rather than putting forward an approximate amount.

The simulators are free and require no account to get a first result.

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