Deadline: 21-Nov-22
The Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership and the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) invite you to participate in the matchmaking platform for the DUTCall 2022.
The Call is opened to a wide range of scientific disciplines and welcomes interdisciplinary approaches. It intends to support a large range of activities, from research to innovation and implementation. It also asks to engage explicitly stakeholders (companies, public authorities, NGO) in the projects and to consider users’ needs in the identification of the project goals.
DUT Call 2022 is funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Partnership scheme. The call is also part of the MICall 2022 to contribute the Urban Transition Mission of Mission Innovation.
The purpose of this Call is to support transnational research and/or innovation projects addressing urban challenges to help cities in their transition towards a more sustainable economy and functioning. The challenges are grouped into three themes called Transition Pathways: Positive Energy Districts (PED), the 15-Minute City (15mC) and Circular Urban Economies (CUE).
Each proposal must involve, at least, three partners from three countries of this list and eligible for funding by their respective national/regional Funding Agency. The added value of transnational collaboration should be clearly stated.
Thematic focus
- The purpose of the DUT Call 2022 is to support transnational research and/or innovation projects addressing urban challenges to help cities in their transition towards a more sustainable economy and functioning. The challenges are grouped into three themes called Transition Pathways:
- The Positive Energy Districts Transition Pathway (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 (15mC) focusses on rethinking the existing mobility system and urban morphology to encourage sustainable mobility choices, redistribute urban space and reorganise our daily activities so to make our cities more climate neutral, liveable and inclusive.
- The Circular Urban Economies Transition Pathway (CUE) wants to foster the design of urban places characterized by regenerative urbanism, by which we mean liveable, inclusive, and green communities and neighbourhoods that are sustained by circular urban economies and resource flows.
Aims, approaches and recommendations for the proposals
- Focus on urban areas, in the context of achieving climate-neutral and sustainable cities
- Projects are expected to be focussed on urban area (including peri-urban area) issues and challenges. Where appropriate, they may also consider the effects and impact on other territories like rural areas or take into account the urban-rural relationships.
- Transdisciplinarity, involvement of “stakeholders”, practitioners, citizens, community groups, NGOs.
- The complex societal challenges addressed in the DUT Partnership also ask for knowledge on and insight in transition, innovation and implementation processes, acceptance of new systems and services and insight in mid- and long-term behaviour of stakeholders.
- Therefore, collaboration and co-production of knowledge with research users and, in particular, professionals in companies and governments, citizen groups or NGOs (grouped under the generic name of “stakeholders”), is highly relevant.
- All projects must clearly engage stakeholders and demonstrate user needs relevant to the project goals
- Stakeholders might, for example, be involved in the choice of the topic of the proposal, in the design and advising on the project and/or in carrying out parts of the work programme. Therefore, consortia submitting proposals to this Call are asked to describe how stakeholders are involved in the project (such as throughout the various stages of project design, implementation, analysis and dissemination). The extent of involvement may vary according to the context of the project proposed and national/regional regulations of participating funding organisations.
- Stakeholders may be associated to the project as full partners (particularly for R&I proposals, see the definitions), or as associated co-operation partners that do not directly receive funding but can contribute to the project through various forms (steering committee, advisor, provider of data…). For individual funder rules. Projects are expected to take a transdisciplinary and preferably co-creative approach from the early project formulation stages.
- Scientific disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches
- This Call is open to a very wide range of scientific disciplines, in social sciences and humanities and arts, in environmental sciences, in natural and technical sciences and application fields such as architecture, spatial planning and policy development.
- Moreover, the complexity of urban sustainability usually requires interdisciplinary approaches to analyse the challenges and find solutions. Projects should mobilise the necessary disciplines required to address all aspects of the issues they wish to tackle.
- Inclusion of diversity (including gender dimension) or specific population considerations
- Applicants are highly encouraged to integrate diversity considerations in submitted proposals, as well as to consider underrepresented populations in the planned research.
Funding Information
- The total available budget for this Call is approximately EUR 90 M, including support from the European Commission (EC) through Horizon Europe.
- Project duration: Projects may be funded for a maximum of 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- The projects selected within this Call 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.
- Applicants are defined as organisations/institutions/companies (i.e. legal entities) that apply for funding. Applicants can be:
- Research organisations (universities, university colleges, research institutes or other entities with research undertakings),
- Companies and commercial organisations,
- Urban government authorities (such as regional and local government institutions, municipalities and municipal organisations, city authorities, urban public administrations, and infrastructure and service providers),
- Consumers and civil society representatives (e.g. local and community organisations, non-governmental organisations, not-for-profit organisations, citizens’ representatives, etc.).
- The Main Applicant is the body responsible for coordinating and managing the project (i.e. project coordinator). It will be the contact point with the DUT Call Secretariat on behalf of the whole consortium and is responsible for the administrative management of the complete project. The Main Applicant is responsible for overseeing the project activities and ensuring that the work programme is on track.
- Co-applicants are Applicants other than the Main Applicant, eligible for funding from a Funding Agency. There may be more than one Co-applicant from any participating country. If there is more than one Co-applicant from a country, one of them needs to be identified as the National Contact Point.
- Co-operation Partners are partners that are not eligible for funding from Funding Agencies (e.g. partners from countries not participating in this Call or not eligible for funding by any of the Funding Agencies), but may be included in a project as Co-operation Partners if
- they finance their activity from other sources and
- the consortium in general fulfils the requirements on the number of eligible applicants from participating countries. A clear description/indication of the role and form of engagement of these Cooperation Partners should be included in the proposal. A written commitment (Letter of Intent) from Cooperation Partners, participating with their own funding or with an in-kind contribution should be submitted with the full-proposal. It should be noted that Co-operation Partners do not count toward the minimum of three eligible applicants from at least three participating countries outlined in the transnational eligibility rule.
- Partners generically covers Applicants and Co-operation Partners.
- The Principal Investigator (PI) is defined as the person who is the lead investigator for an Applicant.
For more information, visit https://dutpartnership.eu/dut_call_2022/