NetZeroCities ECT2: Enabling City Transformation 2

Open call a cascata (sostegno finanziario a terzi) del progetto UE Specific Grant Agreement n°3 to the FPA to reinforce the operations of the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission Platform (SGA3-NZC), finanziato dal programma Horizon Europe (HORIZON). Stato: aperta. Prossima scadenza: 03/12/2026 (single-stage). Testo ufficiale (in inglese): ECT2 will expand the existing portfolio of whole-city transformation activities and interventions by focusing on implementation barriers shared by cities across the Mission. The core shift introduced in this call is a move away from broad, domain-based support towards a more focused model that organises action around clearly defined systemic barriers and bottlenecks. To this end, ECT2 is organised around six challenge areas which represent critical city-wide implementation barriers that currently prevent cities from translating Climate City Contract ambitions into replicable and scalable outcomes. The challenge areas are: Place-based heating and cooling Nature Based Solutions at city scale Urban energy systems City finance innovation for climate neutrality Large-scale building retrofits and renovations Decarbonising urban mobility and logistics All applicants must: Choose the challenge area that resonates most and anchor the rationale for intervention within this area. Within their chosen challenge area, formulate an adequate context-specific impact pathway following the impact framework. While the impact pathway describes how the…