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DUMAVA

To qualify, a project must aim to make social real estate more sustainable and meet certain requirements. You are eligible if the property is owned by a social institution in the following sectors:

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Facts up front

Target audience

Government

Budget

€405 mln

Deadline

16.10.2026

Location

National

DUMAVA – the key facts at a glance

To qualify, a project must aim to make social real estate more sustainable and meet certain requirements. You are eligible if the property is owned by a social institution in the following sectors:

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Target audience

Social institutions that own the property
Decentralised authorities, safety regions and public bodies
Institutions in education, healthcare and culture
Religious institutions and owners of buildings with a public function
Owners of registered monuments (not private homes)

Conditions

Social real estate located in the Netherlands
Application before work starts and before the contractor agreement
Measures based on a suitable sustainability assessment
No other subsidy received for the same measures
Free of natural gas at project completion for buildings delivered after 1 January 2012

Eligible costs

Individual sustainability measures (20%, minimum €2,500 subsidy)
Integrated sustainability projects (30%, minimum €25,000 subsidy)
Integrated projects with very high energy performance (40%)
Insulation, renewable energy generation and energy-saving technologies
Energy advice, and for an integrated project also the energy label

Details about the DUMAVA

To qualify, a project must aim to make social real estate more sustainable and meet certain requirements. You are eligible if the property is owned by a social institution in the following sectors:

  • Decentralised government
  • Education
  • Healthcare
  • Culture
  • National, provincial or municipal monument (not a private home)
  • Religious institutions
  • Other buildings with a public function
  • Registered national, provincial or municipal monument (not a private home)
  • Safety regions for their social real estate

The subsidy provides financial support for a range of energy-saving and CO₂-reducing measures. Think of projects involving measures such as insulation, renewable energy generation and energy-saving technologies. The emphasis is on measures that help reduce the ecological footprint.

Specific conditions apply to a DUMAVA application and must be met:

  • Apply for the subsidy before you start the sustainability work or contract a contractor. Starting before the award? Then you risk receiving no subsidy at all.
  • Carry out the measures on the basis of a suitable sustainability assessment.
  • Choose an integrated sustainability project or implement 1, 2 or 3 individual measures. The conditions and subsidy amounts vary per project.
  • Have you received subsidies for the same measures through another scheme? Then no additional DUMAVA subsidy is possible.
  • Free of natural gas: was the property delivered after 1 January 2012? You only qualify for DUMAVA if it is free of natural gas before the project is completed. This condition does not apply to older buildings.

The application period for DUMAVA runs from 1 June 2026 to 16 October 2026.

We have more than 25 years of experience applying for subsidies and tax schemes for businesses, education and government. Ignite Group has in-house specialists for all (tax) schemes, including DUMAVA. We are glad to help you with your application.

What does a funding advisor do?

A funding advisor is an expert who guides companies through the complex process of applying for public funding and secures the best funding for their projects – from selecting the right programmes through the application to the final report.

At Ignite we work success-driven: we only make you an offer when we are convinced your project is eligible. You are supported comprehensively throughout the process while you concentrate on your core business – we take on the time-consuming part.

Our services as funding advisors

Analysis and identification

  • Assess company & project
  • Find the right programmes
  • Aimed at maximum grants

Strategy development

  • Tailor-made strategy
  • Aligned with your goals
  • Combine programmes

Application and documentation

  • Complete application drafting
  • Documents complete & correct
  • Higher approval chances

Communication with funding bodies

  • Contact with authorities
  • Coordination with funding bodies
  • Representing your interests

Project support and aftercare

  • Support across the project term
  • Meeting funding conditions
  • Disbursement & final report

The advantages of our funding advisory

Time saved

  • Focus on your core business
  • The workload sits with us
  • A faster application

Access to hidden funding opportunities

  • Lesser-known programmes
  • Clever combinations
  • Full funding potential

A higher success rate

  • Expertise from many applications
  • Better approval chances
  • Fewer rejections

Maximising the funding amount

  • The highest possible funding
  • Every lever used
  • More from every project

Legal certainty

  • All requirements met
  • Audit-proof evidence
  • No clawback risk

Numbers you can hold us to

15,000+

Funding applications in the last five years

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Frequently asked questions about DUMAVA

It is the Dutch acronym for the Act for the Promotion of Research and Development Work. The scheme reduces the payroll tax you remit for staff working on R&D.

A maximum of four times per calendar year: one first application plus up to three supplements. Every application runs until December and supplements the earlier ones. The last supplement has to cover at least three months, which in practice means September at the latest.

Yes. The benefit runs through payroll tax rather than profit tax. The condition is that you have your own staff on the payroll. Hired-in workers do not count.

From the moment you have the R&D declaration, you can offset the reduction in the remaining tax return periods. You set the pace yourself: in one go where there is enough payroll tax space, or spread across several periods. What you do not use in one period can be offset in a later one, as long as that period ends within the validity of the declaration.

RVO announces an audit in advance and visits to verify that the reported activities actually took place and that all requirements are met. The focus is on the time records and the project administration. Contact us when an audit is announced and we prepare it with you.

Seven years, so that RVO can inspect it in a later audit.

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Active in research and development, with development and production in the last 4 years? Get in touch now and benefit!

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