Programme Category
Programme Name
Programme Description
Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
Identifier Code
Call
Summary
Cities are the home of complex, inter-dependent challenges related to resource depletion, climate change impacts, environmental degradation, water, air and soil pollution, health issues and social exclusion. A co-funded partnership on Urban Transitions to a sustainable future is expected to make a considerable contribution towards filling up the following gaps in:
knowledge, evidence, innovation, technology, data, capacity, skills, lack of integrated approaches and deficit in applying research and innovation results to actions exist that prevent successful implementation of such transitions, lack of shared vision, goal and direction regarding the transition process.
Detailed Call Description
A co-funded partnership on Urban Transitions to a sustainable future is expected to make a considerable contribution towards filling up these gaps.
The partnership should develop holistic, integrated, systemic and cross-sectorial approaches, foster co-creation processes involving all relevant urban stakeholders and actors and harness the potential of social innovation and citizen’s engagement to deliver place-based portfolios of solutions, measures and tools, facilitate their replication, upscaling, up-taking and mainstreaming and foster market accessibility to increase the return to investments.
It should experiment and promote technological, nature-based, social, economic, cultural, planning and governance innovation and new business and finance models.
Major efforts should be invested in facilitating replication, upscaling and up-taking of technologies, solutions, tools and practices and fostering accessibility to knowledge and evidence, individual and collective behavioural changes, knowledge sharing, dialogues, peerlearning, awareness raising, communities and capacity building and skills enhancement to enable urban actors, practitioners, society and citizens to become drivers for transformative transitions towards urban sustainability.
Activities could potentially be structured along the following building blocks:
- Implementing joint calls for challenge-driven R&I
- Setting-up of a multi-stakeholder community of practice to facilitate science-policybusiness-society dialogues and sharing of experiences
- Pursuing communication and dissemination measures to make R&I results accessible for
all stakeholder groups - Preparation of methodologies, guidelines, references and tools for replication and
mainstreaming of good “practice” - Clustering of projects and synthesising of R&I results
- Setting-up a knowledge hub, organising training activities, fostering ULLs and
experience sharing on new approaches and solutions to support capacity building among
urban actors - Addressing standardisation, certification or, wherever necessary, legislative issues
- Setting-up rigorous monitoring to assess progress towards achieving the objectives of the Partnership and its contribution to relevant EU policies
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
Expected EU contribution per project: € 37,00 million
The total indicative budget for this co-funded Partnership is: € 130 million, committed in annual instalments over multiple year (€ 18,5 million from the 2021 budget and € 18,5 million from the 2022 budget).
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties. Financial support provided by the participants to third parties is one of the primary activities of this action to allow the partnership to achieve its objectives. Therefore, the € 60,000.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia
P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Phone Number: +357 22205000
Email Address: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Mr Christakis Theocharous
Scientific Officer A’
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 029
Contact Email: ctheocharous@research.org.cy
Mr George Christou
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 030
Contact Email: gchristou@research.org.cy
(Publish Date: 21/07/2021-for internal use only)