Deadline: 6-Sep-22
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce a call for proposals to deliver solutions that help achieve climate neutrality in cities, covering both personal mobility and goods/urban logistics using all transport modes.
Proposals should aim at focusing activities on communication and event organisation and coordination of living lab activities continuing and enhancing the operation of the platform, to facilitate the continued coordination and knowledge exchange between the urban mobility projects that have been, or that will be funded under the CIVITAS initiative (not exclusive).
The project selected under this topic will help to ensure the long-term support for the CIVITAS projects offering governance, and an organisational and logistical framework that guarantees the wide dissemination and take up of urban mobility project results.
Proposals should aim at putting in place a common communication and dissemination strategy to maximise the impact of the CIVITAS initiative. Proposals should ensure the monitoring of activities, events and results of the urban mobility projects and communicate about their progress and achievements.
Applicants should also review the common ‘CIVITAS Process and Impact Evaluation Framework’ and ensure the continuity of the CIVINETs. They should ensure continuity and provide a smooth transition from the previous Coordination and Support Action, CIVITAS ELEVATE.
Funding Information
The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for:
- public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and
- cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).
Expected Outcomes
Projects are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:
- Increasing the extent and speed of the take up of innovative, replicable urban mobility solutions in Europe, targeting responsible authorities and other stakeholders, in order to contribute to the priorities of the European Green Deal, which stresses that “transport should become drastically less polluting, especially in cities. A combination of measures should address emissions, urban congestion, and improved public transport”:
- Develop, and put in place a communication, dissemination and promotion strategy that will clearly distinguish the identity of the CIVITAS initiative amongst other European city initiatives.
- Provide a common communication and dissemination framework for CIVITAS urban mobility projects and their living labs, but also other projects that express interest in receiving CIVITAS support (referred to from now on as ‘the projects’), including providing a common corporate identity and producing a monthly newsletter that includes project results as well as wider developments in the field of sustainable urban mobility.
- Provide a common realistic and user-friendly evaluation framework with dedicated support for its implementation.
- Reach out to national transport press correspondents and relevant European media, the Horizon project community and a wider European and international audience of cities and professionals with the aim of increasing the visibility of the network and urban mobility projects.
- Monitor results and implementation activities in the projects and provide the European Commission with a bi-annual report.
- Facilitating exchanges among the projects and the European Commission with the aim of disseminating project key milestones and results.
- Organising capacity building, replication and twinning sessions and three site visits per year, based on latest results and best practices from the projects, to support the take up of innovative urban mobility solutions.
- Organise a CIVITAS Forum once per year to share results and best practice from the projects.
- Collaborate on the organisation of the Urban Mobility Days (flagship conference on innovative, clean and integrated urban mobility
- Collaborate on the organisation of the Urban Mobility Days (flagship conference on innovative, clean and integrated urban mobility and transport).
- Disseminate project results as well as wider developments in the field of sustainable urban mobility, European media outlets, of cities and professionals.
- Assess the CIVITAS newsletter database and increase it by 20% every year.
- Offer the projects’ liaison activities, collaboration and synergy building with the different urban mobility communities and initiatives at European level, such as the ELTIS, EIP SCC, Driving Urban Transitions Partnership, EIT Urban Mobility and the Climate Neutral and Smart Cities Mission.
- Maintaining, optimising and promoting the CIVITAS website through usability tests, and improving its functionality, to ensure that it remains the main platform for the dissemination of relevant European urban mobility innovation results increasing the minimum of unique visitors with 20% every year.
- Increase the CIVITAS twitter followers by 20% every year. Provide a strategy for social media engagement.
- In collaboration with European Commission services, prepare two policy papers per year on innovative solutions, good practices, and their replication, putting in place three ad-hoc Thematic Groups (based on the thematic areas of CIVITAS) to analyse developments and prepare recommendations.
- Organise minimum two meetings per year of the CIVITAS Policy Advisory Committee, with one policy paper issued per year, to facilitate a continued dialogue between mayors, businesses and civil society.
- Prepare policy recommendations and key learnings addressed to cities, Member States/Associated Countries and the European Commission based on latest technological and planning trends, research and innovation as well as results from ongoing projects.
- Updating, promoting and enlarging the CIVITAS cities network, with at least 20 new European cities added per year.
- Providing support and funding to existing CIVINETS, maintaining the secretariat for the CIVITAS initiative, and actively engaging with local, regional or national stakeholders, aiming to overcome language and other barriers.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
- eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe
- low- and middle-income countries.
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