Supporting national, regional and local authorities across Europe to prepare for the transition towards climate neutrality within cities

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Code: 33956 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 16/05/2024 | End submission calls: 05/09/2024

Cities are increasingly taking a leading role in the green and digital transition. National and regional authorities have a key role to play to support cities ambition and facilitate the process.

The objective of this action is to strengthen existing national networks in Member States and Associated Countries as well as encourage and support the creation of such structures in countries where this has not yet taken place and empower them to act as clearly identifiable national contacts to support cities in pursuing their climate neutrality ambition and related targets.

Setting up a New European Bauhaus hub for results and impact

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Code: 33954 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-NEB-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

A ‘New European Bauhaus hub for results and impacts’ is required to collect, centralise, manage, monitor and exploit the knowledge produced by the NEB projects, the NEB Community and other relevant NEB actions (e.g. projects resulting from EU-funded calls dedicated to NEB across the different EU programmes, NEB Lab) while also ensuring cooperation and collaboration between them. By having an overview of all the knowledge produced, the progress made, the challenges faced and the research gaps yet to overcome, the hub will be an agile instrument that will contribute to informing the implementation of the NEB Facility and will help to increase its impact. Ultimately, it will contribute to advancing the objectives of the NEB in a coherent manner.

New governance models for the co-design and co-construction of public spaces in neighbourhoods by communities

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Code: 33951 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-NEB-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

Addressing societal challenges such as climate change, energy poverty, the pandemic, ageing population or the increased societal divide will require to rethink the way we develop and live in our neighbourhoods. It is key to empower people to take an active role in co-designing those spaces. This can lead to greater acceptance, enhanced sense of belonging, social trust and an increased willingness to further engage with the community, and thus promote a global positive social impact on people’s well-being and the neighbourhood as a whole.

Building on work carried out in previous projects, proposals will study, refine and validate existing engagement approaches, that allow residents, businesses, cultural organisations and local governments to co-design and co-create public spaces in neighbourhoods. For instance, this should include how to involve citizens in the development and maintenance of public spaces and neighbourhoods; or flexible designs allowing communities to re-create or re-furbish spaces according to evolving needs. Special attention should be paid to involve diverse groups and citizens at risk of exclusion.

Exploiting the potential of secondary bio-based products

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Code: 33949 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-NEB-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 07/05/2024 | End submission calls: 19/09/2024

Although the NEB has been championing for the built environment, more research is needed on products that make use of secondary bio-based construction materials, such as from by-products or waste from other industries or processes, including bio-based composites and residues/by-products from agriculture or from fishing, aquaculture and agro-food industries, in line with the cascading principles. Using such products in the construction sector will reduce reliance on primary resources, hence minimising the environmental impact associated with their extraction and processing.

Proposals should increase the potential of innovative bio-based products making use of materials from secondary sources for construction applications, thereby enhancing the circular bio-based economy in the construction sector, in line with the NEB values and the cascading principles.

Improve design for transformative approaches and build local capacity for implementation of available solutions focused on climate adaptation

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Code: 33947 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Local adaptation to climate change measures should never be taken in isolation. They are part of the socio-economic fabric of the region and its bio-geographic constraints (for example, its position in a certain river basin, along a certain coastline or in mountainous areas).

This topic aims to better integrate the Mission on adaptation to climate change into the regional socio-economic policies and the just transition. This should be also coupled with raising the awareness of local authorities for co-creation opportunities between adaptation and other investments.

Research the complex interplay between the climate and biodiversity crises towards more systemic approaches and solutions

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Code: 33944 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Climate change and biodiversity loss are two interdependent crises that are complex, cascading, and compounding. Tackling them in an effective way must rely on a much more systemic approach than what has been achieved so far, which requires a better understanding of their interdependencies and feedback loops.

This topic is focused on the research of the complex interplay between the climate and biodiversity crises towards more systemic approaches and solutions.

Develop and refine outcome indicators to measure progress on climate resilience at national, regional and local levels, including knowledge and feedback developed from the Mission

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Code: 33942 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic aims at strengthening the EU’s capacity, knowledge, and involvement of relevant stakeholders in the monitoring and evaluation of current adaptation policies. It aims to facilitate policy, financial, corporate, and individual planning and decisions affecting resilience to climate impacts. Lessons learnt from currently available indicators, the literature, efforts underway surveying the use and prospects for indicators within the framework of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and feedback from the experience in the first years of the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change work provide the basis for further developments.

Bringing together the national level with the engaged regional and local levels (multi-level governance)

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Code: 33940 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic focuses to bring together the national level with the engaged regional and local levels (multi-level governance).

The successful project is expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• The national relevant governance for innovation and climate adaptation is further engaged and mobilised to contribute to the objectives of the EU Mission on adaptation to climate change, and benefit from it.
• The EU Mission is deeply connected with national multi-level governance feeding into Member States, regions and local authorities’ efforts to implement the European Climate Law’s requirements on climate adaptation, and to further develop and update their national, regional and local adaptation plans.
• A set of ‘National Adaptation Hubs’ bridge the gap between the EU and regional/local levels, in the Adaptation mission and further disseminate the solutions emerging from the Mission to other regions and local authorities that are not Charter Signatories.
• A robust twinning scheme grouping of regions and local actors facing similar challenges ensures peer-learning and cross-fertilisation of experiences, further strengthening ongoing peer learning opportunities within the EU Mission, and also providing a tool to disseminate EU Mission’s knowledge beyond the regions and local authorities directly participating in the EU Mission.

Bringing available and actionable solutions for climate adaptation to the knowledge of the regions and local authorities

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Code: 33938 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This topic will focus to bring available and actionable solutions for climate adaptation to the knowledge of the regions and local authorities.

Analysing further, regional, local authorities are the target group of the proposed activities and the customers of the in-depth knowledge provision on solutions; as such they are not expected to participate as part of the consortium, but they should receive tailor made services from the project funded by this action, which should primarily use the Mission Implementation Platform’s channels to feed them with new information products, also based on the needs (already) expressed by them.

NGI Zero Commons Fund 3rd Open Call – “Reclaim the public nature of the internet”

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Code: 33930 | Identifier Code: NGI Zero | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 01/06/2024 | End submission calls: 01/10/2024

The goal of this new fund is to help deliver, mature and scale new internet commons across the whole technology spectrum, from libre silicon to middleware, from P2P infrastructure to convenient end user applications.

NGI Zero Core 8th Open Call – “Upgrade the open Internet architecture”

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Code: 33928 | Identifier Code: NGI0 Core | Programme name: 20613 | Start submission calls: 01/06/2024 | End submission calls: 01/10/2024

The NGI Zero Core, project, co-funded from Horizon Europe, foresees the provision of financial support to third parties, as a means to achieve the objectives of the Next Generation Internet initiative and to contribute to a resilient, trustworthy and sustainably open internet.

Community-led actions to restore our ocean, seas and waters

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Code: 33874 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Reaching the ambitious Mission objectives and targets is dependent on mobilising a broad set of actors to take meaningful action to restore our ocean, seas and waters. Practical, easily accessible support is needed for established or emerging communities of actors to facilitate the deployment at scale of innovative actions, measures and initiatives contributing to the EU Mission’s objectives, and the transformations required at national, regional, and local level.

Each proposed action under this topic should address one of the four basins covered by the Mission ‘Restore our ocean and waters by 2030’.

Promoting rights and values by empowering the civic space

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Code: 33872 | Identifier Code: CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-CIVIC | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Projects under this priority should promote rights and values by empowering civil society actors to work together at the local, regional and national levels on the fields covered by the programme.

Protecting EU values and rights by combating hate speech and hate crime

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Code: 33870 | Identifier Code: CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-SPEECH | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Projects under this priority should aim to enable civil society organisations to establish mechanisms of cooperation with public authorities in particular to support the reporting and recording of episodes of hate crime and hate speech; to ensure support to victims of hate speech and hate crime; and to support law enforcement, including through training or data collection methodologies and tools.

Strategic litigation

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Code: 33868 | Identifier Code: CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-LITIGATION | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Strategic litigation involving the rights enshrined in the Charter contributes to a more coherent implementation and application of EU law and to the enforcement of individuals’ fundamental rights.

Strategic litigators are key to fostering the promotion and protection of Charter rights and support should be given to strengthening their capacity and specialised knowledge on the Charter and on how to develop a strategic approach to cases. In this context, the support and assistance to victims provided by civil society organisations, NHRIs and equality bodies and Ombuds-institutions is instrumental.

Supporting an enabling environment for the protection of whistleblowers

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Code: 33865 | Identifier Code: CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-WHISTLE | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

Support will be given to creating an enabling environment for reporting and informing on breaches of the Union law, in particular by building capacity on the effective application of the Directive on whistleblower protection. This Directive provides for an obligation to establish internal and external reporting channels, a strict obligation to maintain the confidentiality of the reporting person as well as for high standards of protection from retaliation and legal remedies for whistleblowers who report on breaches of EU law in a wide range of key policy areas, thus promoting the fundamental values of the rule of law and democracy as well as the right to freedom of expression, enshrined in Article 11 of the Charter.

Capacity building and awareness raising on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights

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Code: 33862 | Identifier Code: CERV-2024-CHAR-LITI-CHARTER | Programme name: 2926 | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights underlines the importance of strengthening the application of the Charter in the Member States, through awareness raising and capacity building initiatives. The projects funded under this priority could address the capacity building and awareness raising needs on the Charter in general, or they could focus on one or several of the topics below:

• Rights enshrined in the Charter and awareness of the Charter’s scope of application.
• Protecting fundamental rights in the digital age.

ERA Fellowships

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Code: 33855 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-WIDERA-2024-TALENTS-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Widening Participation and Spreading Excellence (2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 11/09/2024

Fellowships should be provided to excellent researchers, undertaking cross-border mobility. Applications must be made jointly by the researcher together with a legal entity in the academic or non-academic sector located in a Widening Country.

Fellowships are open to researchers of any nationality who wish to engage in R&I projects by either coming to the EU from any country in the world or moving within the EU to a Widening Country.

European Blue Parks – Offshore marine protected areas

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Code: 33853 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

The proposed activities should cover all following objectives:  

• mapping the distribution and condition of marine (benthic and pelagic) habitats in offshore areas (beyond 12 nautical miles from the coast);
• providing the scientific basis for establishing new marine protected areas (or enlarging existing ones) in offshore areas, including strictly protected ones;
• assessing pressures (including cumulative ones) in offshore areas and establishing the necessary conservation measures for MPAs, including through elaboration of their management plans and monitoring schemes.

Our Blue Future – Co-designing a future vision of a restored ocean and water system in the EU by 2030 and 2050

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Code: 33850 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 23/04/2024 | End submission calls: 18/09/2024

This action will develop and co-design transitional alternative futures of the EU, in which the Ocean, seas and waters are conserved or restored to good health.

To support the implementation of the European Green Deal, the Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters and the related EU climate, biodiversity and pollution targets, project results are expected to contribute to all of the followings:

• Increased confidence in and support for the transitions required by the European Green Deal, by co-designing possible science-based transition scenarios for reaching the Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters objectives and related EU climate, biodiversity and pollution targets, including environmental, social, economic and political considerations.
• Support progress in restoring our ocean and waters, in adapting to climate change, reversing biodiversity loss and pollution, by co-designing inspiring narratives that stimulate effective action by policy-makers, citizens and stakeholders, and by identifying the pathways that are necessary to realise them.
• Increased awareness of decision-makers, stakeholders and citizens, in relation to the urgency of the climate, biodiversity and pollution crises and the central role of restoring the entire water system to address these crises.