Applying for funding from the Green Transition Fund

• Application process: who to contact, who will make decisions on funding?
• Applying
• Application period and processing time
• Evaluation criteria

The Green Transition Fund is part of the Sector for Vitality of the City of Porvoo, which is responsible for granting and managing aids. The fund’s investments, assets, and monitoring are conducted by the service area for Financing and Strategy, which is part of the Sector for Group Services.

The fund’s contact person is the Economic Developer, who pre-processes the applications and presents them to the Advisory Board consisting of sustainability and business experts. The Advisory Board evaluates applications and makes its recommendations to the Vitality Board to support decision-making. The Advisory Board evaluates whether the funding object applied for has sufficient effectiveness, and also the feasibility of projects. The Vitality Board decides on the granting or denial of funding. Decisions may also be conditional and require, for example, implementing other funding for the project. Decisions may also require budgetary changes.

The Advisory Board may also, based on the application, make a conditional recommendation, for example, on the content to be funded. After this, the Board negotiates with the applicant who may change their application as required if they so wish. The granting of funding is submitted to the Vitality Board for decision only after this, with a corrected application.

Please note: All application documents are currently available only in Finnish or Swedish. The application form may also be filled in in English, in which case the necessary text parts of the application will be translated into Finnish and/or Swedish by the fund.

Funding from the Green Transition is applied for electronically, using the application form at the e-Porvoo digital service. To use the form an identification with a suomi.fi authorisation is required. The application does not need to be filled in at one time, but it may be saved, and one may return later to continue it at e-Porvoo via My Services. However, this requires that information about the applicant and the basic information of the funding (the first five tabs of the application) have been entered on the form and saved on the first time. We recommend compiling application data and texts into a separate file, from which they can be copied to the application.

Please note, that in principle, after submitting an application it may no longer be edited unless it is clearly a question of, for example, a typing error or other similar easy-to-correct fact. Instead, based on the feedback from the Advisory Board and the Vitality Board, the applicant may try to apply for funding later again.

In several applicants’ projects, one main coordinator is selected among the applicants, whose contact person will compile and fill in the application and reporting as well. Funding will be paid via this main coordinator.

The recipient of the funding shall submit a credit rating report, a certificate of tax debts, as well as a certificate of entry into the preliminary tax withholding register, the VAT register, and the register of employers (if appropriate).
The summary and basic information of the project are public and may also be published on the fund’s website or used in the fund’s communications. However, the entire document is on request public under the Act on the Openness of Government Activities, so the applicant is asked to mark and compile as its own attachment those parts of the application that are possible trade secrets.

Please read carefully all information and instructions regarding the fund before completing the application.

If you wish, you can familiarize yourself with the questions in the electronic application form using the practice form below. The file is a draft version of the application, so it is neither complete nor an identical copy of the actual electronic form. However, it includes most of the questions and can be used to help you outline your application if needed.

Call for applications for the Green Transition Fund is constantly open. The estimated processing time for applications is on average 1 to 4 months from the submission of the application. Please note: At the moment, applications will only be processed at the beginning of 2026.

The processing time of the application is affected by, among other things:

• Quality of the application: an application prepared clearly and in a sufficiently concrete manner in accordance with the instructions and the necessary appendices, will accelerate the process.
• Requests for additional information and supplementation: if supplements are required for the application, the processing time will be longer.
• The number of applications received, and a possible backlog may extend the processing time.
• Meeting timetables for decision-making bodies: the application is processed both on the Advisory Board and the Vitality board, whose timetables affect the time of processing applications.

We aim to process your application as smoothly as possible. If the timetable is particularly crucial to you, we recommend that you contact us already when planning for applying.

The Green Transition Fund primarily funds development measures whose effects on green transition and increasing competitiveness extend beyond the applicant’s own operations. Therefore, the applicant’s carbon handprint is also promoted in addition to its own green transition, which means helping others to operate more sustainably as well as supporting others to develop their competitiveness. The effectiveness of the green transition may also be related to the conservation/enhancement of biological diversity.

The fund aims to support, in particular, the leaps of green transition, which genuinely promote progress towards a green economy, focusing on creating new, rather than maintaining receding courses of action. Projects may vary in size and objectives.

The evaluation also pays attention to the feasibility of the project and the ability of the implementers to conduct the project as a whole.

The following criteria are used to evaluate project applications:

• Effectiveness in the context of the green transition. The project genuinely promotes green transition and helps to take the innovative steps involved. The effects shall also extend beyond an individual operator. The projects funded under the fund seek the broadest possible, multiplier effect on the progress of the green transition.
• Effectiveness in the context of increasing competitiveness. The effects shall extend beyond an individual operator. The evaluation draws attention to the project’s ability to influence the competitiveness of different actors and/or region and the ability to create new business opportunities.
• The feasibility of the project and the ability of the applicant to implement the project. The project’s objectives shall be in relation to the funding and credibly feasible. The implementers shall also allocate sufficient resources and ability to manage the risks relating to the project and the overall implementation of the project.
  

In addition, the conditions for the applicant, projects, and eligible costs of the fund shall be met.