Deadline: 28-Oct-2020
The European Commission has announced a call for proposals for the European Green Capital Award 2023.
The Green Capital Award enables cities to inspire each other and share examples of good practices in situ. All winning cities are recognised for their consistent record of achieving high environmental standards and commitment to ambitious goals.
The award is open to cities over 100.000 inhabitants from EU Member States, EU Candidate Countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
Objectives
- Reward cities that have a consistent record of achieving high environmental standards;
- Encourage cities to commit to on-going and ambitious goals for further environmental improvement and sustainable development;
- Provide a role model to inspire other cities and promote best practice and experiences in all other European cities.
Outcomes
The outcome of the selection process of the European Green Capital Award is to:
- Award the title of European Green Capital 2023 to one winning city;
- Award a financial prize of EUR 600.0006 to the winning city.
Eligibility Criteria
- This call for entries to the competition for the European Green Capital Award 2023 is open to the following applicants:
- Applicant cities from EU Member States, EU Candidate Countries, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland.
- Applicant cities from the countries listed above which have more than 100,000 inhabitants.
- In countries where there is no city with more than 100,000 inhabitants, the largest city is eligible to apply.
- A ‘city’ is understood to be an urban area, including metropolitan areas (excluding agglomerations), and is understood as an administrative unit governed by a city council or another form of democratically elected body.
- In any given year, cities can apply for either the European Green Capital Award or European Green Leaf Award, but not both at the same time.
- Past winners may not apply again after they have been awarded the European Green Capital title.
- The signatory should be the Mayor or highest ranking city representative, authorised by national law to legally represent the city.
- Candidate cities are invited to comply with the following formal requirements when drafting their application. Applications which do not follow these requirements at preselection stage shall not be examined further:
- The full application shall be written in one of the official languages of the European Union. However, submission of the application form in English is encouraged for the smooth and timely running of the assessment of the applications.
- Candidate cities shall answer all the questions and complete all sections of the application form. In the event that a question cannot be answered, reasons should be given.
- For the pre-selection stage, applications shall adhere to the word limits indicated per section of the application form. Any words above the specified limit will not be taken into account and may leave application responses incomplete. Text included in the body of graphics/tables will be included in the word count. Text included in the captions and headings (titles) of graphics/images/tables will not be included in the word count, however these should not exceed 20 words. Cities may be contacted by the Secretariat in case of clerical and / or administrative errors or for missing documents.
- There is a limit of graphics/images/tables to be provided per Indicator Area, City Introduction and Context section and Good Practice section of the application form that should be adhered to.
- For the pre-selection stage, applicants shall submit their application in word document format within the official EGCA 2023 application form and upload this through the application portal on the European Green Capital Award website.
Evaluation Criteria
The selection of a city awarded with the title of European Green Capital is assessed on the basis of twelve environmental indicators:
- Air Quality
- Noise
- Waste
- Water
- Nature and Biodiversity
- Sustainable Land Use and Soil
- Green Growth and Eco-innovation
- Climate Change: Mitigation
- Climate Change: Adaptation
- Sustainable Urban Mobility
- Energy Performance
- Governance
For more information, visit https://ec.europa.eu/environment/europeangreencapital/news/EGCA-2023_EGLA-2022_Competition_Open.html