3.5 Zmniejszenie uciążliwości wynikających z wydobywania kopalin

Purpose

Energy, environment, infrastructure

R&D relevance

0 of 3

Poland eligible

Yes

Country limit

Poland

Region

Any

Consortium

Unclear

Readiness level (TRL)

—

Topics

• Mineral extraction
• Mining impacts
• Environmental protection

Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026

Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.

Applicant typeApplicant type by product form and project type; programme listing is not an applicant-specific eligibility determination.

The programme’s eligible applicant classes are product-form-specific: grant: statutory entities whose state-funded tasks and activity fall under the named 2013 and Geological/Mining Acts; local governments/unions; mining rescue units; entities named by the Hard Coal Functioning Act; research institutes supervised by the minister responsible for energy raw materials (or successor); and academic universities and Polish Academy of Sciences institutes only for project type 12. Combined grant+loan and loan-only: entrepreneurs under the Entrepreneurs Law. Transfer of funds: state budget units. The call notice and programme allow a grant application to be reclassified as a loan under programme conditions.

Application restrictionApplication gate and assessment, with conditional type-12 additional opinion; exact legal/financial status remains applicant-specific.

Access criteria include on-time current-form filing, complete properly signed application and required attachments, eligible beneficiary and purpose, contract-repayment/public-law compliance, the prior-three-year NFO contract-termination restriction with its mutual-agreement exception, unfinished undertaking, programme-consistent period and form/intensity, and the parallel-loan requirement for the specified grant type. Quality scoring requires positive opinions from the ministers named in programme §7.3/§7.5(12); ordinary projects need the energy-raw-materials minister/office and Higher Mining Office opinions, and type-12 projects also need a positive environment-minister opinion. Overall threshold is at least 60 points and 60% in each scoring area; some 0-point results cause rejection. Finance/public-aid is separately screened where applicable.

Application restrictionRegulations and call notice; exact application status/current GWD acceptance not tested.

Applications are submitted through GWD with a legally equivalent electronic signature. Without such signature, applicant sends the electronic GWD application and submits/dispatches the generated barcode printout and required signed statements to the NFOŚiGW office. Filing outside the notice period is rejected. Only one application for the same undertaking under the same support form is considered (first received); rejection at access or quality stage does not bar a new application during the same call.

Application restrictionExact snapshot row and linked current route; source identifier code is 2019 while page title/package is 2026. Status derives from local snapshot, not a live GWD submission check.

Fresh exact row is the open continuous NFOŚiGW entry with composite identifier 57/NC/KO/2.6/2019/górnictwo-DOTACJA and 58/NC/KO/2.6/2019/górnictwo-POŻYCZKA; row dates are 15 July 2019–30 December 2034 (snapshot as of 22 October 2026). The linked current page says applications are open continuously for the 2026 programme package from 15 July 2019 through 30 December 2034, 15:30, or until allocation exhaustion. Do not infer actual available balance or submission-system acceptance.

Eligible project scopeProgramme §7.5; exact applicant, project type and legal approvals remain to be assessed per application.

Projects must reduce environmental impacts caused by mineral extraction or mine closure. Eligible project types in §7.5 cover: (1) reclamation of degraded or devastated extraction land, including thermal-anomaly remediation, processing deposited extractive waste and resource recovery; (2) new, modernized or expanded installations reducing extraction/processing waste and dust, recovering such waste/dust or managing associated minerals, waste, dust or industrial water; (3) installations reducing greenhouse gases or harmful emissions, including mining-machine-engine emissions; (4) protecting land and water from underground/borehole extraction effects, including backfilling voids, strengthening pillars, underground waste placement or eliminating subsurface voids; (5) collecting, discharging, treating or retaining mine industrial wastewater and minewater, including saline water, and retention/dosing systems; (6) building, modernizing, relocating or expanding minewater desalination facilities; (7) noise reduction; (8) rescue equipment for mining-rescue units/stations; (9) environmental work of the President of the Higher Mining Office, including publications and Geological Survey Archive equipment; (10) mining-supervision equipment to monitor extraction and methane emissions; (11) environmental research by the identified minister-supervised research institutes; and (12) circular-economy research/testing of optimal mine technologies to protect surface waters from excess salinity caused by minewater discharge, only for the university/PAN beneficiary classes in §7.4(1)(f)–(g).

Other conditionCurrent linked checklist; items are conditional on project type and specified circumstances; not an exhaustive checklist for any unidentified application.

The linked 2026 attachment checklist is project-type-specific. Depending on project type it requests legal title to all project land/assets through implementation and durability; current technical design except design-and-build; scope/cost/design consistency statement; cost estimate or market research/contract evidence; required planning/environment/building/water/waste/operating permits; mine movement-plan statements for mining-impact projects; environmental and mining approvals; ecological agreements where relevant; evidence of annual/multi-year work plans for equipment/research types 8–12; and a foreign-funding-unavailability analysis where required. The checklist adds a specific alternative-solutions analysis for individual loans/grants exceeding EUR10m for certain technical pollution-control equipment. Which documents apply depends on exact project type and circumstances.

Other conditionProgramme §6 and linked guide; applicant-specific cost period/approval remains unknown.

Programme eligible-cost period is 1 January 2015 through 31 December 2038. Eligible costs must also fall within the detailed programme catalogue and NFOŚiGW Eligible-Cost Guidelines, subject to programme-specific restrictions and any foreign-programme rules for co-financed projects.

Other conditionGeneral guide qualifications across programme cost claims; exact foreign programme/award not known.

The current general guidelines apply to NFOŚiGW priority-programme-funded projects, but the programme and contract may impose restrictions, exclusions, detail or expansion. For this continuous call, the guideline version effective on application date governs unless the NFOŚiGW Board decides otherwise. For co-financing with foreign funds (including FEnIKS/FEPW/KPO/LIFE), the foreign programme’s eligibility rules and NFOŚiGW foreign-funds agreement govern eligible costs, VAT, penalties, indirect and in-kind costs unless this priority programme says otherwise.

Other conditionLoan conditions; forgiveness and pre-filing start depend on the specific loan form.

Loan tranches may be disbursed only as reimbursement. Preferential loans may be partially forgiven under general NFOŚiGW rules, but market-based loans and loans for projects also receiving an NFOŚiGW grant are not forgivable. Market-based loan projects may begin before filing; no equivalent early-start permission is stated for other forms.

Other conditionLoan instrument; market or preferential pricing chosen/negotiated under applicable public-aid and NFO rules; actual rate is not known.

Loans may be market-based and non-aid, priced at the European Commission reference rate subject to specified NFO general rules, or preferentially priced at WIBOR 3M but not below 2% per year. Interest is paid quarterly in arrears; first payment is due at the end of the calendar quarter following the quarter of the first disbursement.

Other conditionNegative and unresolved boundaries after source review; exact project-specific approval and hiring unknown.

The reviewed package does not state a per-applicant or per-project PLN award ceiling or current remaining call balance; the PLN1.96bn is a programme-wide allocation. No unconditional hiring requirement, job title, staffing count, salary rate, or named pay entitlement is stated. Employee salary is only a potentially eligible cost category under the general guideline if duties are expressly identified and salary apportioned to project work; the programme and cost catalogue control and may narrow general rules.

Funding per beneficiary, maximumAnnual grant payout maximum across all projects for each eligible research institute under §7.4(1)(e).

PLN 10,000,000

Applies to grant payment for research institutes under §7.4(1)(e); rate also limited to 70% eligible costs.

Call allocationNon-repayable forms at whole-programme level, not product-specific current balance.

PLN 1,360,000,000

This is a programme ceiling, not the available call amount; subject to programme changes.

Call allocationWhole priority-programme allocation, not the current call balance, any exact product-form allocation, or per-applicant award. Do not infer a project cap.

PLN 1,960,000,000

The programme splits this pool between non-repayable and repayable support; a February 2026 amendment increased total programme budget by PLN 700 million. Current call amount and remaining balance are unknown.

Call allocationRepayable forms at whole-programme level, not product-specific current balance.

PLN 600,000,000

This is a programme ceiling, not the available call amount; subject to programme changes.

Eligible costSpecial programme cost catalogue; project-specific eligible items remain subject to application, necessity review, source conditions, and NFO agreement.

The special catalogue expressly lists: intangible assets (patents, licences and specified technical/organizational know-how); rescue, mining-supervision, methane-monitoring and mine-documentation archive equipment; construction/assembly works, demolition, reclamation preparation and reclamation works; studies/databases; geological-project research and drilling; geological and works supervision; equipment purchases/installation and commissioning consumables; backfilling, protective, stabilization and technological underground works; and specified technical publishing costs of the Higher Mining Office. These categories are subject to the general NFOŚiGW cost guidelines and programme-specific necessity/acceptance.

Eligible cost limitOnly qualifying institutes/universities under §7.4; indirect-cost amount is capped against personnel remuneration, not all eligible costs.

30 percent of personnel salary costs; lump-sum indirect-cost ceiling

Limited to institutes and universities named in §7.4; these include type-12 research university/PAN beneficiaries. Costs still subject to applicable NFO rules.

Funding intensity, maximumGrant part of combined grant+loan support for entrepreneurs under §7.4(2).

30 percent of eligible costs

This grant form is paired with an NFOŚiGW loan; grant amount cannot exceed 50% of that NFOŚiGW loan; total grant+loan cannot exceed 100% eligible costs; applicable state-aid ceilings may further constrain intensity.

Funding intensity, maximumFor grant only, entities in §7.4(1)(a)–(d),(f),(g), with (f),(g) restricted to type 12.

100 percent of eligible costs

Public-aid regulations apply where relevant; total repayable and non-repayable support cannot exceed 100% eligible costs.

Funding intensity, maximumGrant for research institutes in §7.4(1)(e).

70 percent of eligible costs

Also subject to a PLN 10m maximum amount payable in one year across all undertakings for a beneficiary; this is an annual aggregate, not a per-project cap.

Funding intensity, maximumLoan-only or loan component for programme-authorized beneficiaries; exact form/product choice determined by programme §7.4.

100 percent of eligible costs

Subject to public-aid rules if applicable and negotiated underwriting; combined grant+loan total cannot exceed 100% of eligible costs.

Funding intensity, maximumTransfer of funds to state budget units under §7.4(4).

100 percent of eligible costs

Transfer form is limited to state budget units; terms follow the cited public-finance regulation and incorporated NFO criteria/rules.

Funding intensity, maximumCombined repayable and non-repayable support for the same undertaking.

100 percent of eligible costs

Aggregate across repayable and non-repayable forms; public-aid rules may impose lower ceilings.

Grace period, maximumMaximum principal repayment grace period; measured from last loan tranche to first principal instalment, and capped at six months after completion.

6 months after project completion (and defined tranche-to-first-principal interval)

May be applied; not automatic. Exact schedule negotiated.

Loan term, maximumMaximum loan financing period from planned first-tranche disbursement to planned final principal repayment.

180 months

The programme allows no more than 15 years; the NFOŚiGW negotiates exact financing period and schedule.

• Conditional eligible-cost category under the current general NFOŚiGW guide §3.3 incorporated by priority programme §6(2); not an employment vacancy or staffing commitment.

  Other role · Staff cost the grant can fund

  Potential eligible salary cost only if the employee’s project duties are expressly identified in a position description or duties, and salary is prorated to project tasks. The current programme requires costs to conform to its special catalogue and the NFO guidelines; no hiring obligation, job title, headcount, employment duration or pay amount is stated. For research institutes/universities, programme §6(2) separately allows eligible indirect costs up to 30% of personnel remuneration.

• Continuous-call regulations for the mineral-extraction priority programme

  gov.pl

• Call announcement, current package as published on the exact route page

  gov.pl

• Detailed eligible-cost catalogue, current programme attachment

  gov.pl

• NFOŚiGW general Eligible-Cost Guidelines, current at source retrieval

  gov.pl

• Official NFOŚiGW general-information page linking the current general eligible-cost guidelines

  gov.pl

• Official NFOŚiGW mining programme and continuous call page

  gov.pl

• Priority Programme: Reducing nuisance resulting from mineral extraction, current 2026 version

  gov.pl

• Official notice describing NFOŚiGW Board-approved 2026 programme changes

  gov.pl

• Application attachment list, current 2026 version

  gov.pl

Opens

15 Jul 2019

Provider

NFOŚiGW · Gospodarka o obiegu zamkniętym, w tym gospodarowanie odpadami, ochrona wód i gospodarka wodna

Source

gov.pl

Checked

24 Oct 2026

Review status

Partial review

Independent QA

No published hold

Reviewed

23 Oct 2026