ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures
Overview Open December 15, 2015 Close March 15, 2016 Application 2-step Call budget approx. 24.5 M Countries 18 Established by JPI Urban Europe and Horizon 2020
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About the call for proposals In the ERA-NET Cofund Smart Urban Futures call for proposals, cities and civil society in Europe can address urgent and long-term challenges by co-creating ideas and projects. Three topics : 1. Concepts and strategies for smart urban transformation, growth and/or shrinkage 2. New dynamics of public services 3. Inclusive, vibrant and accessible urban communities
Call topic 1: Concepts and strategies for smart urban transformation, growth and shrinkage Introduction While patterns of transformation, growth and shrinkage pose challenges to cities across Europe, they also offer opportunities. The idea of the topic The projects should create a better understanding of the interplay between cities and their surrounding rural areas. Addressed are terms of land-use, transport, environment, energy, identify how transformation, growth and shrinkage dynamics can be exploited as an opportunity to revise spatial structures, decision processes and stakeholder cooperation and strengthen favorable practices towards better livelihoods and quality of life.
Call topic 2: New dynamics of public services Introduction The urban areas in Europe have seen a significant change in the structure and organisation of public service provision. The idea of the topic The projects should aim to understand users service needs and promote equal access to these services ensuring acceptability, fairness and equality in service provision. The projects will propose tools, actions, governance structures as new socio-technological methods that contribute to an optimal utilisation of the new dynamics in public services. Addressed are the potential of using Open Data for linking new public and private services to cities and citizens, pre-commercial procurement processes that enable new Private-Public (-People) solutions and corporate activities.
Call topic 3: Inclusive, vibrant and accessible urban communities Introduction New individual and community practices, new urban governance, businesses, infrastructures can support sustainable urban development and the peaceful integration of diverse communities. The idea of the topic New technologies, infrastructures, social developments and business models as new forms of interconnectivity across former divides. Addressed are co-creative urban planning, smart integrated urban development, development of new business models such as social entrepreneurship, crowdsourcing, new technologies to offer new forms of community self-organisation and to promote cohesion and political participation.
Type of projects wanted New and innovative approaches: transdisciplinary co-creation, living labs, co-production of knowledge Smart inter-urban development, ecity and digital issues Involving citizens and different groups of stakeholders Practices - further developing of existing projects
Who can apply? Researchers, practitioners, innovators, cities, municipalities, consumers, companies, NGOs, research institutions and other stakeholders dedicated to the development of European urban areas Project consortia consisting of at least three eligible applicants from at least three participating countries Partners from third countries are welcome in consortia but need funding from other sources
Project partners Country Austria Belgium Cyprus Denmark Finland France Italy Latvia Lithuania Agency FFG F.R.S. FNRS FWO Innoviris RPF IFD Tekes AKA ANR MIUR VIAA LMT
Project partners Country Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Slovenia Sweden Turkey United Kingdom Agency NWO RCN NCN FCT UEFISCDI ARRS Formas Swedish Energy Agency VINNOVA TÜBITAK AHRC EPSRC ESRC Innovate UK
Further information For all details ENSUF call text Regularly updated information www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu FAQ www.jpi-urbaneurope.eu Further reading JPI Urban Europe Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
JPI Urban Europe call secretariat Johannes Bockstefl FFG Austrian Research Promotion Agency Telephone: +43 5 77 55-5042 E-mail: johannes.bockstefl@ffg.at Joanna Komperda NCN National Science Centre Poland Telephone: +48 12 34 19 138 E-mail: joanna.komperda@ncn.gov.pl Contact your national funding agency for France : Agence Nationale de la Recherche Pascal Bain, pascal.bain@agencerecherche.fr
Special conditions for French participants 1. ANR funds only basic research and applied research (no experimental development) ; 2. To be eligible for ANR funding, the consortium should contain at least one French research organisation 3. The coordinator (if French) should not have submitted another project as coordinator to another ANR call for proposals 4. The project should not be «similar» to another project submitted the same year to another ANR call for proposals