Integrated peri-urban areas in the transition towards climate neutrality

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Code: 34815 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 11/02/2025

Peri-urban areas lie at the periphery of cities. They are the interface between rural and urban environments and are often the subject of high pressure from the urban core which results in an un-controlled and uneven urban expansion towards the rural territory often triggering environmental degradation. While dispersed and heterogenous in terms of land-occupancy, density and services and amenities distribution, the peri-urban territory integrates mutual inter-dependences within the urban-rural continuum. These can be associated with people (inwards and outwards migration or socio-demographic change) as well as with linkages and flows between a variety of rural and urban related functions and activities (ranging from industrial and recycling manufacturing, agriculture production and food processing, sanitation, waste disposal, drinking water provisions, to housing – including slums and gated communities – transport and associated infrastructure, large-scale commercial sites, and large recreational areas such as parks or forests), which juxtapose, collide and mesh in unintended and unplanned ways.
Peri-urban areas are also the subject of weaker governance structures and limited institutional capacity, which in return limits the capacity to regulate economic activities and land-use and land coverage and makes it difficult to implement effective and integrated local, regional, and functional urban area wide policies and programs.

This topic aims to foster the integration of green and smart mobility, energy, industry and governance solutions and measures within the current peri-urban development and planning practice to reduce these areas GHG emissions and to improve their liveability.

Mobility Management Plans and Behavioural Change

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Code: 34812 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 11/02/2025

The shift towards a decarbonised transport system is considered as challenging compared to other sectors of the economy. Achieving urban mobility decarbonisation can involve a variety of policy and technology measures and solutions. Technological innovations should be complemented by measures tapping into changes that target travel patterns and generate a shift in the daily mobility behaviour.
The objective of this topic is to explore, analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of mobility management schemes (influencing behavioural change, travel demand and travel supply) in achieving a decarbonised and energy-efficient urban mobility system.

Rethinking urban spaces towards climate neutrality

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Code: 34810 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 11/02/2025

With our cities being overly populated and dense, the scarcity of urban public space requires smart urban design, planning, management and prioritisation in urban space allocation to different uses, amenities, and services. From the reallocation of the urban public space to more sustainable forms of transport and energy generation and use, intermodal hubs, and interchanges to the dynamic management of the street profile and curb side, and the integration of suburban/peripheral areas in the general urban fabric and patterns, current and future research should aim to make urban public spaces more liveable while enabling better a connectivity, accessibility, social interaction, inclusion and transit in the context of a changing climate. Concepts like the “15-minute city” and “superblocks” are gaining momentum and have an enormous potential in shaping the urban planning and design practice and the mobility services based on the principle of proximity.

Zero-pollution cities

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Code: 34808 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 11/02/2025

Cities are concerned by various types of pollution, including air, water, soil and noise pollution, and their negative impacts on human health and the environment. Many of these pollutants emanate from the same sources as greenhouse gas emissions being tackled in the context of the EU Mission Climate-Neutral Smart Cities, so it is clear there are potential environmental co-benefits from reducing GHG emissions. Designing effective policies to protect city dwellers from pollution depends on solid evidence as well as on cooperation and communication between and with policy makers and citizens.
Due to resource constraints, city administrations may often need to prioritise between different actions on different forms of pollution – and for this a solid risk-based evidence-base of the exposure to, impacts of and measures against pollution will allow to arrive at more informed and cost-effective local measures.
More informed, coherent and targeted local measures will help European cities to deliver environmental co-benefits under the EU Mission for Climate-Neutral, Smart Cities, comply with or exceed EU legislative standards for air and water quality, and supporting the delivery of environmental objectives such as the targets of the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan and commitments under the Green City Accord.

Applicants should propose projects that deliver better and innovative local measures against pollution through, among others, improved knowledge on the exposures of citizens to pollution and improved health impact assessments and strategies to reduce health impacts related to air, water, soil and/or noise pollution.

Resource Efficiency of PV in Production, Use and Disposal

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Code: 34806 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-07 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

Photovoltaic power generation is pivotal in the transition to a clean energy system and the achievement of a climate-neutral economy. To this end, it is important to enhance its sustainability while creating wealth and additional employment opportunities in Europe.

Consequently, project results are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• Reduce the environmental footprint associated to PV technology deployment across all the phases of the system lifetime (production, transport, installation and end of life).
• Define design and processing guidelines to optimally address circularity of PV systems for one or several PV technologies (silicon, thin film, organic PV, perovskite PV, etc.).

Industrialisation of sustainable and circular deep renovation workflows (Built4People Partnership)

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Code: 34804 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on the industrialisation of sustainable and circular deep renovation workflows.
Several recent projects and calls have focused on prefabrication for deep renovation, but more work is needed to develop innovative, seamless workflows from design to off-site prefabrication, to installation, construction on-site, maintenance and future dismantling, reuse and recycling of prefabricated elements, duly considering life cycle performance, sustainability, and the potential to use the buildings as carbon sinks.

Digital solutions to foster participative design, planning and management of buildings, neighbourhoods and urban districts (Built4People Partnership)

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Code: 34802 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

The transition to a climate-neutral society requires that Europe’s building stock also becomes climate-neutral. At the same time, Europe’s building stock has to become climate resilient. This requires a comprehensive approach beyond individual buildings, namely at the level of neighbourhoods or urban districts. However, the decarbonisation of the built environment and its adaptation to a changing climate and to societal needs in terms of comfort, accessibility, inclusiveness, and aesthetics cannot happen without active participation of the buildings’ users and occupants, individual / collective property owners, and energy communities as beneficiaries of the value chain. Professionals, such as project developers, architects, engineers, building owners, planners and statutory authorities, require solutions that develop, analyse, model, visualise and present a multitude and complex set of information in such a way that facilitates such co-design processes. This topic focuses on the development of digital solutions for a stronger participation of end users, citizens and other relevant stakeholders in the design, planning and management of the renovation of existing buildings, neighbourhoods and / or districts.

Support to the activities of the SET Plan Key Action area Renewable fuels and bioenergy

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Code: 34800 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-13 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic supports the activities of the SET Plan Key Action area Renewable fuels and bioenergy.

Proposals under this topic should address the following SET Plan sector:

• renewable fuels
• bioenergy

Market Uptake Measures of renewable energy systems

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Code: 34798 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on market Uptake Measures of renewable energy systems. The proposal is expected to develop solutions addressing at least 2 of the expected outcomes (shown below) either for the entire renewable energy market or focusing on a specific energy sector, such as electricity, heating, cooling or renewable fuels.

Expected outcomes:

• Facilitate the wider uptake of renewable energy systems (RES) in the energy, industrial and residential sectors leading to an increased share of renewable energy in the final energy consumption by 2030 and beyond.
• Contribute to provide open source validated tools and methodologies for policy makers and stakeholders for developing more informed RES policy and for analysing the market dynamics when including all renewable energies.
• Contribute to the development of markets and respective financial frameworks that can operate in an efficiently and incentive-compatible manner while accommodating massive shares of renewables.
• Improve social acceptability of renewable energy facilities and installations.

BIM-based processes and digital twins for facilitating and optimising circular energy renovation (Built4People Partnership)

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Code: 34796 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on the improvement of Building Information Modelling and Digital Twinning over the full life cycle of buildings, including construction and renovation of buildings, towards enhanced energy efficiency and sustainability and in compliance with circular economy and resource efficiency principles.

Robotics and other automated solutions for construction, renovation and maintenance in a sustainable built environment (Built4People Partnership)

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Code: 34794 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

The transformation of the built environment should take place in a way that minimises the environmental impact of the works themselves. With the increasing rollout of highly energy efficient, sustainable buildings and deep renovation, there is a growing need for the development of robotic and automated solutions to support sustainable building construction, renovation and maintenance processes that are less disruptive, cleaner and faster.

Innovative, Community-Integrated PV systems

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Code: 34792 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

PV is growing fast, from domestic and commercial, up to utility scale systems. In the years ahead PV systems and solutions will be an integral contributor of distributed generation, pivotal in building functional energy communities, aggregated and operated through advance distributed controls in hierarchical set up with the integrated grid.
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Increase the profitability and penetration of PV systems in renewable energy communities.
• Engage actively citizens and communities in the clean energy transition in particular through the uptake of energy cooperatives and the development of decentralized platforms.

Minimisation of environmental, and optimisation of socio-economic impacts in the deployment, operation and decommissioning of offshore wind farms

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Code: 34789 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

The aim is to develop and promote the use of modelling tools and objective holistic assessment metrics for realistic in-depth analysis of (cumulative) impacts of wind installations on the environment and on local communities and to integrate these in design tools for the deployment and decommissioning of offshore wind farms. It will be as well necessary to find innovative solutions to minimize the environmental impact during all stages of the life cycle of offshore wind farms but especially for the construction and decommissioning phase. An assessment framework for installations is needed with nature inclusive design options valuing ‘created habitats’ vs ‘natural habitats’.

Demonstrations of innovative floating wind concepts

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Code: 34787 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-09 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

The overall aim is to accelerate the cost-effective construction and deployment of floating wind farms, facilitating their rapid and sustainable deployment across Europe and lower their overall costs.

DACCS and BECCS for CO2 removal/negative emissions

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Code: 34785 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-12 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic focusses on DACCS and BECCS, which are technologies that can help reaching climate neutrality by 2050 by creating the carbon sinks required to balance out residual emissions in 2050.

The objective of this topic is to further the technological development of DACCS and BECCS, and addressing the environmental, social and economic challenges and benefits with the view of establishing this concept as a viable technology to fight climate change.

CCU for the production of fuels

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Code: 34782 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

Conversion of captured CO2 is not only a means to replace fossil fuels, but also a promising solution for seasonal energy storage. There are still some scientific and technological challenges to overcome to be able to exploit CO2 as a fuel feedstock, the main challenge being that the utilisation of CO2 is limited by the highly energy intensive conversion process.
Proposals will aim at the development of energy-efficient and economically and environmentally viable CO2 conversion technologies, including energy storage and/or displacement of fossil fuels that allow for upscaling in the short to medium term.

PV-integrated electric mobility applications

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Code: 34772 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

Photovoltaic power generation is pivotal to a clean energy system and the achievement of the net zero-emissions target. To this end, it is important to enhance affordability, sustainability and exploit the modularity and synergies of application of PV technologies. PV technology can contribute to improved features of electric mobility systems not just in terms of CO2 (and air-pollution) emissions reduction but also regarding product aesthetics and user experiences.

Design for adaptability, re-use and deconstruction of buildings, in line with the principles of circular economy (Built4People Partnership)

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Code: 34769 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D4-02-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

Project results under this topic are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes:

• Improved adaptability of buildings and building units to new uses.
• Increased reuse and recycling of building elements and products.
• Extended service life of buildings.
• Increased awareness on best practices for design for adaptability, reuse and deconstruction.

Critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms

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Code: 34767 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on critical technologies for the future ocean energy farms. Specigfically, the results of projects under this topic, are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

• Increased performance of ocean energy technologies with the focus on sustainability, operation and maintenance of ocean energy devices.
• Improved knowledge on how to operate ocean energy devices, their availability, maintainability, reliability, survivability, and sustainability.
• The reduction of the levelized cost of energy (LCOE).

Development of smart concepts of integrated energy driven bio-refineries for co-production of advanced biofuels, bio-chemicals and biomaterials

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Code: 34765 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL5-2024-D3-02-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Climate, Energy and Mobility (Cluster 5)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 17/09/2024 | End submission calls: 04/02/2025

This topic is focused on the development of zero-waste and neutral or negative carbon emission energy-efficient biorefinery concepts for enabling the production of low-cost advanced biofuels through co-production of added value bio-based products and bioenergy.