Deadline: 20-Oct-21
The European Commission (EC) is pleased to announce a call for proposals for the Affordable Housing Initiative.
Scope
- To set up one European Affordable Housing Consortium to support SMEs, including social enterprises, to collaborate with public authorities and (social) housing providers, in order to implement renovation projects targeting social and affordable housing, to upskill and reskill and integrate the latest digital, environmental and social innovative solutions targeting social and affordable housing and district renovation
- To provide support to local industrial partnerships for implementing the lighthouse districts
- To organise knowledge transfer, capacity building and networking activities for local industrial partnerships
- To facilitate access to funding, financial and technical assistance to local industrial partnerships for implementing the 100 lighthouse districts
- To develop blueprints for replication to deliver successful lighthouse districts
- To create a hub of expertise, networking and knowledge transfer for affordable and social housing districts renovation
- To provide advice towards sustainable financing, better regulation and standards for renovation targeting social and affordable housing districts.
Funding Information
The available call budget is EUR 1 200 000.
Expected Outcomes
- To contribute to strengthening expertise, knowledge and networking for urban regeneration projects targeting affordable and social housing following a district-level and integrated approach
- To reinforce transformation towards a sustainable building stock and smart development of housing (in case of affordable district areas) by supporting renovation projects to ‘go the extra mile’ in terms of technologic, green, social and digital innovative methods, tools and processes
- To improve access to innovations and services by focusing on re-skilling, tools, pooling of resources and joint investments for SMEs operating in several industrial ecosystems to get access and apply cutting-edge technologies in renovation projects
- To improve the presence of SMEs in the significant opportunities offered by MS recovery strategies focussing on social and affordable housing and in the renovation market in general
- To better identify and overcome issues to increase SMEs presence in the renovation of affordable and social housing market
- To facilitate the creation of local long term partnerships involving SMEs for urban regeneration at district-level
- To contribute to better sharing of ideas/experiences/best practices and improved capacity building in the field of construction and renovation of affordable and social housing districts
- To raise awareness of good examples of local industrial cooperation, human-centered business models and successful projects targeting renovation of affordable and social housing at district-level
- To contribute to the implementation of urban development following the 2021-2027 cohesion policy objectives
Eligibility Criteria
- In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:
- be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)
- non-EU countries:
- EEA countries and countries associated to the COSME part of the Single Market Programme or countries which are in ongoing negotiations for an association agreement and where the agreement enters into force before grant signature
- be legal entities forming a consortium, including:
- non-profit organisations (private or public);
- public authorities (national, regional, local);
- universities or educational institutions;
- international organisations;
- non-governmental organisations;
- European umbrella organisations;
- business support organisations;
- research centres;
- profit making entities.
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