Joint Call for Proposals for Research and Innovation Projects – European Partnership – Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Call 2024
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Summary
The purpose of this Call for proposals is to support transnational research and/or innovation projects addressing urban challenges to help cities in their transition towards a more sustainable economy and functioning.
Detailed Call Description
The challenges are grouped into three themes called ‘Transition Pathways’: Positive Energy Districts (PED), the 15-minute City (15mC) and Circular Urban Economies (CUE).
The call is open to a wide range of scientific disciplines and welcomes interdisciplinary approaches. It intends to support a large range of activities, from research to innovation and implementation. It also asks applicants to engage explicitly with stakeholders (including but not limited to public authorities, companies and NGOs) in projects and to consider users’ needs in the identification of project goals. Projects are expected to take a transdisciplinary and preferably co-creative approach from the early project formulation stage.
The DUT Partnership focuses on three following critical urban sectors (and their interrelationships) which are laid out in its roadmap as Transition Pathways (TP):
Positive Energy Districts Pathway (PED) aims at supporting urban energy transitions through innovative solutions for the planning, large-scale implementation and replication of PEDs with the mission to have at least 100 PED by 2025. Furthermore, it will contribute to the Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by building a portfolio of PED related solutions towards climate neutrality. PEDs build on the optimisation of energy efficiency, (local) energy generation from renewables and energy flexibility and will be synergistically connected to the energy system in Europe.
- PED topic 1: Local PEDs in a multi-level perspective
- PED topic 2: Towards the climate-neutral city: PEDs, system integration and urban strategies
- PED topic 3: Managing the urban energy transition: data management and decision support systems
15-minutes City Transition Pathway (15mC) TP sets out to connect measures of mobility, logistics, public space and planning to promote liveable neighbourhoods and climate-neutral cities. The 15mC TP coordinates and drives DUT’s activities on urban mobility transitions, in a broad and holistic understanding of the city as a system. Thus, it connects to the ambition of the 15mC concept and sees it as attractive narrative advocating the qualities of a polycentric city, consisting of integrated neighbourhoods.
- 15mC topic 1: Advancing Urban Mobility: Innovations for Inclusive and Youth-Centric Mobility Systems
- 15mC topic 2: Reconsidering Urban Mobility Systems: Towards System Innovation and Proximity Policies for Sustainable City Regions
- 15mC topic 3: Evidence for the urban mobility transition – data and indicators for effective decision-making
Circular Urban Economies Pathway (CUE) aims to support the planning and design of inclusive urban spaces sustained by circular resource flows. Thus, it encourages a multitude of tools and approaches that combine efforts towards increased urban resource efficiency and liveability.
- CUE Topic 1: Creating a New Paradigm for Urban Water Cycles
- CUE Topic 2: Circular Models for Regenerating, Repurposing, Protecting and Conserving Urban Space for Biodiversity
- CUE Topic 3: Multi-City Strategies for Circular Urban Economy Monitoring and Management
Further details:
The call also provides a Matchmaking Platform .
The DUT Partnership will also host an Info Day on 10 September 2024. More information here.
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Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The national/regional Funding Agencies (outlined in Annex A, page 45), which are partners of the EC grant under the DUT Partnership project, are not eligible for funding under this co-funded Call. Each national/regional Funding Agency will provide funds directly to their eligible beneficiaries in accordance with the agencies’ rules and regulations.
Tables 1 and 2, provided in Annex A, (pages 45-48), give an overview of the national and regional budgets dedicated to this Call by each Funding Agency and of their positioning on which topics they can fund and who they can fund.
Table 3, provided in Annex A, (Czech Republic: page 64, Greece: page 75), presents the funding rules and guidelines for each national/regional Funding Agency.
Thematic Categories
- Culture
- Education and training
- Public Administration
- Regional Development
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Urban Development
Eligibility for Participation
- Associations
- Businesses
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- Local Authorities
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
In order to be eligible, the applicants (organisations/institutions/companies (i.e. legal entities) can be:
- research organisations (higher education institutions including universities, university colleges, research institutes or other entities with research undertakings);
- companies and commercial organisations;
- urban government authorities (such as regional and local government institutions, municipalities and municipal organisations, city authorities, urban public administrations, and infrastructure and service providers);
- consumers and civil society representatives (e.g. local and community organisations, non-governmental organisations, not-for-profit organisations, citizens’ representatives, etc.);
- from the culture and creative sectors (e.g. artists and designers).
The projects selected within this call will be funded directly by national/regional Funding Agencies from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan (Chinese Taipei), Türkiye, and the United Kingdom.
Eligibility rules for the consortia and Applicants:
- Each proposal must be submitted by a consortium consisting of at least 3 eligible applicants from at least 3 different participating countries. In addition, at least 2 of the eligible Applicants must be from different EU Member States (MS) or Associated Countries (AC)eligible for EC co-funding in this Call.
- The Main Applicant (project coordinator) must be eligible to be funded and request funding by its national/regional participating Funding Agency.
- A Principal Investigator (PI) must only participate in a maximum of two proposals , and only once as the PI of a Main Applicant.
- Consortia must include at least 1 urban government authority (city, municipality or entity providing key urban services) either as a Main Applicant, Co-applicant or Cooperation Partner, depending on the national/regional eligibility criteria.
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EU Contact Point
For questions on the general Call process and proposal submission, you can contact the Call Secretariat: Call@dutpartnership.eu.