BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Driving Urban Transitions Partnership (DUT): Joint Call for Propos als for Research and Innovation Projects DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221121 DTSTAMP:20260511T050352Z UID:45cb55da179f313b73a20ef063656b22ce0d9d6f4dafd7d9ec6b1e08 CATEGORIES:Call for proposal DESCRIPTION:Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable Future is the new p rogramme of JPI Urban Europe\nstarting in 2022. The DUT Partnership steps up the game to tackle urban challenges. Through\nresearch and innovation\, authorities and municipalities\, business\, and citizens shall be enabled \nto translate global strategies into local action. The partnership aims t o develop the skills and tools to make urban change happen and boost the u rgently needed urban transformations towards a sustainable future with enh anced quality of life in cities.\n\nDUT is realised as a European partners hip of more than 60 partners from 27 countries\, involving national and re gional policy makers\, funders and urban-related policy agencies to invest in urban R&I and strengthen a European innovation eco-system for urban tr ansitions. Building upon the JPI Urban Europe achievements\, DUT aims to c reate a strong community around urban transitions and to establish a well- known research and innovation platform that will help cities become more s ustainable\, inclusive and liveable.\n\nIn order to support cities along t heir specific strategies\, the Partnership focuses on three critical urban sectors and their interrelationships:\n\n The Circular Urban Economies Tr ansition Pathway (CUE): The CUE pathway wants to foster the design of urba n places characterized by regenerative urbanism\, by which we mean liveabl e\, inclusive\, and green communities and neighbourhoods that are sustaine d by circular urban economies and resource flows.\n The Positive Energy Di stricts Transition Pathway (PED): The PED pathway aims to optimize the loc al energy system through energy efficiency\, flexibility and local energy generation from renewables in actions towards the (urban) energy transitio n and climate-neutrality and mainstreaming these actions in urban planning processes.\n The 15-Minute City Transition Pathway (15minC): The 15minC p athway focusses on rethinking the existing mobility system and urban morph ology to encourage sustainable mobility choices\, redistribute urban space and reorganize our daily activities so to make our cities more climate ne utral\, loveable and inclusive.\n\n\nEach proposal must involve\, at least \, three partners from three countries who are eligible for funding by the ir respective national/regional funding agency (page 24 and Annex A). In a ddition\, at least two of the eligible applicants must be from different E U Member States or Associated Countries eligible for EC co-funding in this Call.\n\n\nWho funds what and how \n \n\n SFOE Participation:\n\nSFOE wi ll fund successful Swiss proposals to a total of 4 million Euros through i ts Pilot and Demonstration (P+D) programme (page 71). Thus\, the terms and conditions of the P+D programme as well as of this specific call apply. T here is no maximum contribution set per project for the Swiss part. Howeve r\, the SFOE P+D Programme covers max. 40% of the project cost.\n\nEligibi lity type of research and TRL:\n\n\n Eligible topics/Transition Pathways: Positive Energy Districts (PED) and 15-Minute City (15minC)\n TRL range: 4 to 9: The SFOE exclusively funds innovation-oriented approach related pro jects.\n\nEligibility criteria:\n\n\n This call is addressed to all types organizations such as universities\, research institutes\, SME’s and lar ge companies\, public authorities\, NGOs. All partners must comply with th e SFOE P+D Programme directive.\n National requirements have to be fulfill ed (Art. 49 EnG and Art. 54 EnV)\, i.e. the proposed projects will be fund ed by the P+D program and thus have to fulfill the formal criteria and con tent criteria specified in the Appendix IV of the directive of the P+D pro gram.\n The key eligibility criteria and funding conditions are summarized in the SFOE Call document (pages 3 and 4).\n Eligible costs: personnel co sts\, operational costs\, investment costs and subcontracting.\n\n\n\n Pre -proposals to the SFOE are to be sent as pdf to pilot-demo@bfe.admin.ch (S ubject: "DUT Call pre-proposal") by 21 November 2022.\n Full proposals to the SFOE are to be sent as pdf (and xlsx) to pilot-demo@bfe.admin.ch  (Su bject: "DUT Call full proposal") by 3 May 2023.\n\n\nContact person:\nMen Wirz\, pilot-demo@bfe.admin.ch\, +41 58 462 55 97\n\n \n\n Innosuisse  - Swiss Innovation Agency\n\nInnosuisse (page 72) will fund successful Swis s proposals to a total of 2’500’000 Euros. Anticipated number of proje cts to be funded is from 6 to 10 projects. There is no maximum contributio n set per project for the Swiss part. However\, there are co-funding rates defined for different project partners (SMEs 50%\, large companies 25% an d research institutions 50%\; page 72).\n\nEligibility type of research an d TRL:\n\n\n Eligible topics/Transition Pathways: All\n TRL range: 3 to 7: The Swiss Innovation Agency exclusively funds strategic (basic) research\ , applied research\, experimental development related projects.\n\nEligibi lity criteria and costs:\n\n\n Swiss partners must either be registered wi th the Swiss Register of Commerce or be a recognized research institution. \n At least one of the Swiss participants in a consortium must be a for-pr ofit company from Switzerland.\n The share of the total eligible costs of the Swiss for-profit partner/s must be higher than the share of the Swiss academic partner/s.\n Each Swiss partner must cover a part of the project budget through their in-kind contribution.\n Eligible costs: personnel cos ts\, operational costs\, investment costs\, indirect costs and subcontract ing.\n Only costs necessary for the execution of the project are eligible. They are defined in the Ordinance of 20 January 2021 on the measures for the participation of Switzerland in the programmes of the European Union i n the field of research and innovation. Only costs documented by employmen t contracts of Swiss project partners or invoices to Swiss project partner s will be reimbursed.\n\n\nContact person: \nLarissa Beutler\, larissa.beu tler@innosuisse.ch\, +41 58 467 16 05\n\n \n\n SNSF Participation:  \n\n SNSF (page 73) will fund successful Swiss proposals to a total of 600’00 0 Euros. Anticipated number of projects to be funded is up to 2 projects. There is no maximum contribution set per project for the Swiss part. Never theless\, budgets of a collaborative research project must be balanced and the SNSF expects that applicants carefully consider the budgetary request in a relation to the effective needs of the project.\n\nEligibility type of research and TRL:\n\n\n Eligible topics/Transition Pathways: All\n TRL range: 1 to max. 4: The SNSF exclusively funds basic research conducted fo r purposes that are not directly commercial.\n\nEligibility criteria and c osts:\n\n\n Applications must comply with the SNSF Regulations on Project Funding and practices.\n All Swiss applicants submitting to the SNSF and c o-applicants must be eligible for the SNSF Project Funding Scheme (see EPF L Instructions for SNSF Project Funding).\n Eligible costs: personnel cost s\, operational costs and subcontracting. Overhead contributions are not s upported: they are calculated on the basis of the total research funding g iven to a particular institution through all SNSF funding instruments\, an d are paid directly to the applicant’s institution on a yearly basis.\n Note: Swiss-based applicants must submit pre-proposals and proposals via m ySNF at the same deadline as the consortium applications.\n\n\nContact per son:\nMarie Guyaz\, dut@snf.ch\, +41 31 308 22 22\n\nNote: According to th e European Commission\, TRL (Technology Readiness Level) scale uses the pa rameter that evaluates the maturity of a technology according to a series of indicators that go from 1 (the basic principles are documented) to 9 (t he technology is released\, and industrial production is started).\n\nSFOE – Innosuisse – SNSF schedule for applications:\n\n\n Deadline for pre -proposals: 21 November 2022 (13:00 CEST)\n Deadline for full proposals: 3 May 2023 (13:00 CEST)\n\n\nIf interested\, please contact research@epfl.c h to verify your eligibility for the call.\n\nFor further information\, pl ease have a look at the call webpage\, the DUT Joint Call 2022 document (p ages 71-73 are related specifically for Switzerland)\, the pre-proposal te mplate and the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ).\n  LOCATION: STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR