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    HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-REGEN-02

    Advancing sustainable maintenance and repair measures for existing buildings

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    Beautiful, inclusive and sustainable neighbourhoods for communities · HORIZON-IA · TRL 6 to 8 · Needs partners

    1 Dec 2026
    Deadline
    €5M
    Indicative, per project
    ~2
    Grants expected
    8
    Past winners in this family

    What this call funds

    This call funds innovation projects that develop and demonstrate tools and methods for smarter, more sustainable maintenance and repair of existing buildings. It seeks a decision support tool based on life cycle assessment for predictive maintenance, plus a package of repair measures that extend a building's life while being sustainable, affordable and minimally disruptive. Solutions must be demonstrated on three real buildings across three different countries, including a heritage building and a social or affordable housing project.

    construction built environment · circular economy · climate adaptation · sustainable materials · smart cities

    Who wins this

    A transdisciplinary consortium of construction, building science and social science partners across at least three countries, with access to demonstration buildings including a heritage site and social housing, is best suited to this call.

    Could you win this call?

    Only the website is required.

    The call in detail

    Indicative grant size
    €5M
    Funding model
    Lump sum. Paid per completed work package, with no financial reporting of actual 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
    Proposals must demonstrate solutions on three buildings located in three different Member States or Associated Countries, including at least one heritage building and one social or affordable housing project, and must allocate at least 0.8% of budget to engage with the New European Bauhaus hub.
    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 Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025) [[This decision is available on the Funding and Tenders Portal, in the reference documents section for Horizon Europe, under ‘Simplified costs decisions’ or through this link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/guidance/ls-decision_he_en.pdf ]]. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions

    Who has won calls like this

    Organisations that most often win this call family · 8 past winners

    POLITECNICO DI TORINO · IT
    3 wins
    COMITE EUROPEEN DE COORDINATION DE L'HABITAT SOCIAL AISBL · BE
    2 wins
    VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V. · BE
    2 wins
    E2ARC ARCHITECTURE RESEARCH FOR CITIES · BE
    2 wins
    ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH (ICLEI EUROPASEKRETARIAT GMBH) · DE · SME
    2 wins
    FUNDACION TECNALIA RESEARCH & INNOVATION · ES
    1 win

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