OPEN CALL

Pilot Cities Programme – Call for Pilot Cities, Cohort 3 (2024)

CALL FOR
Propsals

DEADLINE
2024-03-18 17:00: CET

Details

The aim of this call is to select from Mission Cities a cohort of Pilot Cities, which will explore and test pathways to accelerated change towards 2030 climate neutrality goals — relevant to a city’s key emission domains — and to generate accelerated learning that can inform subsequent replication and scaling efforts in all other EU cities. 

Activities eligible for funding are:

  • Pioneering activities to support climate-neutrality, including the deployment of innovative (new or improved) technology, product, process, service, solution, policy, or governance model at city level, explored in a cross-sectoral and systemic manner.
  • Systemic, science-based innovative initiatives that strengthen cities’ use of scientific research and ensure translation of research results into policy actions, to accelerate climate neutrality in the sectors/domains of water, food, energy, industry, housing and deep building retrofitting, transport, and mobility through the levers of green technology (i.e., digitalisation), behavioural/lifestyle change, social innovation, culture, policy and regulation, finance, and new business models (e.g., circular economy). These innovations shall account for co-benefits (e.g., health promotion) and the “Do No Significant Harm” (DNSH) principle.
  • Activities to support climate-neutrality to establish new knowledge and build capacity and capabilities of city government and associated local actors through training, workshops, and other forms of learning.
  • Activities aiming to build more collaborative communities, to advance new governance models at city level, and to engage citizens (including vulnerable/marginalised groups) and enable them to act on climate change in a systemic and cross-sectoral manner.
 

How to apply

Applications are submitted online via the grant management platform AMPimpact. For instructions on how to register on this platform and to apply, please follow the instructions on the “apply to the call for pilot cities” section of the project website.

Important dates

  • Deadline:18 March 2024, 17:00 CET