Publicity and Education Projects
Invitation Period(s)
Applicant organisations should download a soft copy of the application for
record after submission.
Online Application through Smart ECF
Publicity and Education (P&E) Projects are promotional or educational programmes or activities mainly to enhance children’s and the general public’s environmental awareness and knowledge of environmental issues; and/or environmental projects that mobilise individuals to take direct and positive action to improve and conserve the environment, and induce individual behavioural change with a view to practicing a green and low carbon lifestyle. All P&E Projects should target at bring positive impact on the environment with measurable and tangible outcome against the objectives set for the projects, based on the objectives set for the project, and thus should not be one-off publicity events.
P&E Projects are categorised in the following themes:
Waste Reduction at Source and Waste Recycling
Clean Shorelines
Carbon Neutrality / Low Carbon Living 
Biodiversity
Clean Air
Other theme
(Note : P&E Projects ceases accepting applications for “Special Grant” Projects.)
Each P&EP Project period should normally last for not more than 2 years, unless with justifications accepted by or as required by the ECF Committee for specific reason(s). For projects from First-time Applicant Organisations, the project period normally should not be more than 1 year.
Applications can be submitted online through Smart ECF or by email.
(Note: Paper-based applications submitted in any methods would NOT be accepted in this round of
application.)
Under normal circumstances, application(s) submitted by an applicant organisation with two on-going projects under the same funding scheme will not be approved.
Relevant documents of funding schemes/programmes
Clean Shorelines Small Scale Projects (For new project on this theme, please submit application through the Practice and Action Projects Funding Scheme under the Environment and Conservation Fund.)
Minor Works Projects (Not accepting new applications)
Demonstration Projects (Not accepting new applications)
* For projects with installation facilities only
For other forms and documents related to application and project management, please refer to Forms and Documents in Resources to download.
Slides of The Briefing Session
For each round of new application, the Secretariat of the Environment and Conservation Fund Committee (the Secretariat) will organise briefing session(s) for organisations to understand the application requirements. If you wish to attend the briefing session, please stay tuned for the latest news on this website. For any questions regarding the application, organisations may contact the Secretariat (Tel.: 2835 1234).