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Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) European Partnership in Lancashire

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Background

Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) is a new programme of JPI Urban Europe and one of 49 European Partnerships under Horizon Europe. It is the only partnership dedicated to urban development in its complexity, and has a close link to the European mission of 100 climate-neutral and smart cities.

DUT is formed of 60 partners from 27 countries, involving national and regional policy makers, funders and urban-related policy agencies to invest in urban R&I and strengthen a European innovation ecosystem for urban transitions.

Objectives of Fund

DUT will build upon the achievements of JPI Urban Europe and will aim to strengthen joint efforts towards sustainable urban development, bringing knowledge and evidence into action. It aims to create a strong community around urban transitions and to establish a well-known research and innovation platform that will help cities become more sustainable, inclusive and liveable.

The DUT partnership aims to tackle grand challenges immediately, many of which must be addressed within cities and by urban communities. The DUT partnership therefore aims to address these challenges with an integrated approach to offer decision makers in municipalities, companies and society the means to act and enable the necessary urban transformations.

Value Notes

Individual Calls specify the budget available to support proposals.

Each project partner applies individually for regional/national funding and is therefore subject to funding limits determined on a national/regional level as well as the funding rules of the respective regional/national programmes.

Who Can Apply

Generally, proposals must be submitted by a consortium consisting of at least three eligible applicants from at least three different participating countries. In addition, at least two of the eligible applicants must be from different EU Member States or Associated Countries eligible for European Commission co-funding.

A wide spectrum of actors may participate in Calls, including researchers, practitioners, entrepreneurs, municipalities, companies, NGOs, and other stakeholders.

Specific eligibility and selection criteria depend on the specific topics of a Call and may vary.

Calls are based upon multi-lateral cooperation, therefore, applicants must comply with the respective national and funding agency related eligibility criteria and funding rates (these may differ between the participating funding agencies).

Participants that are not eligible for funding may join a project (proposal), however, they will be responsible for arranging their own funding sources.

Location

Projects will be funded directly by national/regional Funding Agencies from the following countries: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Eligible Expenditure

In order to support cities along their specific strategies, the Partnership focuses on three critical urban sectors and their interrelationships.

  • The Circular Urban Economies Transition Pathway (CUE) - CUE aims to foster the design of urban places characterised by regenerative urbanism, which means liveable, inclusive, and green communities and neighbourhoods that are sustained by circular urban economies and resource flows.
  • The Positive Energy Districts Transition Pathway (PED) - PED aims to optimise the local energy system through energy efficiency, flexibility and local energy generation from renewables in actions towards the (urban) energy transition and climate-neutrality and mainstreaming these actions in urban planning processes.
  • The 15-Minute City Transition Pathway (15minC) - 15minC aims to foster a rethink of the existing mobility system and urban morphology to encourage sustainable mobility choices, redistribute urban space and reorganise daily activities so to make our cities more climate neutral, liveable and inclusive.

How To Apply

Calls usually follow a two-stage procedure with pre-proposals and full proposals. Only those successful at the pre-proposal stage are invited to submit a full proposal.

Applications should be submitted in English via the UEFISCDI electronic submission system.

Pre-proposals for the Third Joint Call For Proposals for Research and Innovation Projects should be submitted between 2 September 2024 and 14 November 2024.


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Contacts

For further information on how to obtain this fund, please contact the following:

  1. Aurélien Gaufrès and/or Pascal Bain
    Call Secretariat
    Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR - French National Research Agency)
    50, avenue Daumesnil
    75012 Paris
    France
    Email: enuac@anr.fr
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