Reducing soil sealing through sustainable urban and territorial design in the New European Bauhaus
Joint Call between the New European Bauhaus Facility and the Soil Deal for Europe Mission · HORIZON-IA · TRL 6 to 8 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds projects that design and test urban and territorial planning solutions to stop soil sealing and unseal already sealed land, while improving soil health, food systems, climate resilience and biodiversity. Solutions must be demonstrated in at least three different neighbourhoods across urban, peri urban and rural areas in different countries, with plans for scaling up and new funding models to sustain them long term. Two grants of around 15 million euros total are expected.
climate adaptation · biodiversity · environmental monitoring · smart cities · circular economy · regional development
Who wins this
A multidisciplinary consortium spanning several EU countries that brings together planners, architects, local authorities, researchers and community groups to pilot and scale nature based soil unsealing solutions across urban, peri urban and rural sites.
Could you win this call?
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €7.5M
- Funding model
- Budget-based. Reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium: from 3 countries.
- Also required
- Solutions must be demonstrated in at least three neighbourhoods, one urban, one peri urban and one rural, located in different Member States and or Associated Countries.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Israel, Türkiye, Ukraine, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Georgia, Armenia, Moldova, Tunisia, New Zealand
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility Conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible Countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligible Conditions described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions