CFPs for Designing Sustainable Urban Mobility

Application is open for the CFPs for Designing Sustainable Urban Mobility. Topics under the call “Supporting the transition towards climate neutrality within cities” aim to strengthen the operational capacity of the Mission Platform[11] that provides its services to cities participating in the Cities Mission, to support the setup of national mission networks and to foster collaborative local governance models. Topics under the call “Research and Innovation actions to support the implementation of the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission” will provide support to innovative approaches to integrated urban planning and design, large-scale demonstrations of Positive Clean Energy Districts, to activities that strengthen the innovation and inclusiveness potential of public transport and urban mobility, and to the setup of a platform to coordinate the international dimension of the Mission. Overall, the actions funded under the Work Programme will also foster the engagement of citizens and urban stakeholders as well as the mainstreaming of social innovation and of user-friendly and secure digital services.

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Eligibility

Eligible countries for CFPs for Designing Sustainable Urban Mobility: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes

A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.

Other eligibility conditions: described inAnnex B of the Work Programme General Annexes

Benefits

Proposals should set out a credible pathway to contributing to the main objectives of the Cities Mission, and more specifically to the following impacts:

• Capacity building among European cities, in particular the 100 cities under the Cities Mission, to design and roll out their Climate City Contracts[14] and reach climate neutrality by 2030;
• Sector integration, cross-sectorial collaboration and synergies, supported by digital solutions, new value chains for increased energy and resource efficiency, better performing grids, resilience in cities and surroundings/ urban areas, communities and infrastructures, and enhanced competitiveness of the European industry;
• Deployment of inclusive, replicable deep renovation, renewable energy, demand response, heating & cooling as well as system integration solutions including for different building types; establishment of participatory system integration projects, renewable & citizens’ energy communities and intensified city-business collaboration in related energy transition planning and implementation, prevention and reduction of energy poverty;
• Deployment and increased modal share of inclusive, clean, shared and alternative mobility modes and services in urban and peri-urban areas while internalizing the negative externalities of transport such as traffic congestion, air and noise pollution, road collisions and accidents, as well as contribution to avoid mobility-poverty;
• Establishment of innovative and inclusive local and/or regional governance models and institutional partnerships and frameworks to increase the innovation capacity of local/regional administrations and foster integrated cross-sectorial planning approaches and accelerate the take-up of innovative smart solutions in key areas such as energy, transport, spatial planning, environment, industry and SMEs, digitisation and (big) data handling;
• Development of new co-creation and co-management methods and approaches based on co-creation that ensure a better engagement of citizens and stakeholders, longer-term planning certainty and better integration of their needs within the community’s strategies and plans;
• Establishment/development of interoperable, scalable and replicable digital innovative solutions across the Mission’s cities, using shared standards and data models, open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and open source software where relevant;
• Contribute to the availability of relevant data in the European common Data spaces for Mobility, Green Deal and Energy to enable further reuse of information to support the wider community;
• Increased synergies and complementarities with all the relevant EU policies, programmes and initiatives linked to cities, in particular, the DIGITAL programme and the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy.

Application process

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