From pilot testing to whole-city transformation for climate neutrality

Enabling City Transformation

The Enabling City Transformation Call invites Mission Cities to propose innovative actions to overcome systemic challenges faced when implementing climate action. This eighteen-month programme aims foster large-scale, city-wide transformation, building upon and progressing beyond the Pilot Cities programme.

With a budget of 22.8 million Euros under Horizon Europe, the programme aims to create practical, replicable solutions that support sustainable urban development, and climate neutrality across European cities.

The Call to participate in the Enabling City Transformation Programme is open from 5 June 12:00 CEST until 14 October, 17.00 CEST.

INFORMATION WEBINARS

  • 12 June 2024, 14.00-15.30 CEST – Ambition, Approach & System and technical information, watch the recording >> / download the presentation slides >>
  • 19 June 2024, 11.30 – 13.00 CEST – Eligibility and Assessment Criteria, watch the recording >> / download the presentation slides >>
  • September (date to follow) – Impact Framework and Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL)
  • September (date to follow) – Refresher: Ambition, Approach & System and technical information. Registration coming soon.
  • September (date to follow) – Refresher: Eligibility and Assessment Criteria, and Q&A. Registration coming soon.

CALL DOCUMENTS

Call Guidelines

Application Templates

SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

To submit your proposal, follow the instructions below to submit your application for the Call for Proposals ‘Enabling City Transformation’:

  • If not already registered with the system, use this link to register. 
  • If you have previously registered with the system (i.e. for applying to one of the Pilot Cities Programme calls): please use this link (and bookmark it!) to log-in. 
  • If you do not remember your password, please use these password reset instructions

Guidance on how to submit your application: 

TIMELINE

Enabling City Transformation Programme

The Enabling City Transformation Programme is an eighteen-month initiative focused on fostering innovation for comprehensive city transformation. Open to Mission Cities only, the programme aims to explore and implement enabling innovations that support large-scale, practical, and replicable learning. It is intended that the learnings made in this programme can support many other cities across Europe. By building the necessary conditions for city-wide transformation, the programme seeks to create a strategic portfolio of interventions that supports the implementation of the EU Cities Mission.

Selected cities will propose innovative actions to address systemic implementation challenges. This builds upon and progresses beyond the testing and experimentation approach developed in the Pilot Cities Programme, advancing towards large-scale implementation to achieve EU Cities Mission goals, paving the way for the sustainable, long-term transformation required for city climate neutrality.

Under the Horizon Europe framework, the total available budget for this call is 22.8 million Euros.

5 June 2024 - 14 October 2024

Open Call – Enabling City Transformation

6 December 2024

Decision communication

11 December 2024

Publication of Call outcomes and selection

December 2024 - March 2025

Contract development

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Coming soon!

We will be adding answers to frequently asked questions throughout the duration of the call.

If you have questions, you can reach out to us via email!