Funding

Funds the coordination of the CIVITAS initiative: sharing and scaling sustainable urban mobility solutions across European cities.

Demonstrates energy-efficient urban and sub-urban public-transport solutions complemented by shared mobility for climate-neutral cities.

Demonstrates the transition to low-temperature heating in multi-apartment buildings supporting climate-neutral city goals.

Joint Cities × NEB × Built4People × CCRI demonstration topic on circular-economy models in construction.

Designs new ways of risk awareness and enhanced disaster preparedness for communities and authorities.

Develops tools and processes for virtual and physical stress tests of critical infrastructure against natural, accidental and malicious threats.

Addresses security challenges arising from the green transition in urban and peri-urban areas.

Develops a multi-hazard approach addressing cumulative and cascading disaster impacts.

Develops climate-security and civil-preparedness solutions covering pre- and post-crisis phases.

Drives the uptake of innovative disaster-risk-management solutions through demonstrations and market analysis.

Builds targeted innovative capabilities for the resilience of critical entities to natural hazards.

Develops tools, equipment and technologies — drones, robotics, remote sensing, communications — for search and rescue in hazardous disaster conditions.

Researches maladaptation — adaptation measures that backfire — and produces guidelines and tools to prevent and correct it.

Pre-commercial procurement of tools and technologies that help health systems and communities adapt to climate change.

Open topic for breakthrough solutions that implement the European Water Resilience Strategy: a restored water cycle, a water-smart economy, clean and affordable water.

Uses the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative to strengthen clean, circular urban manufacturing in support of the Clean Industrial Deal.

Funds living labs that deploy circular systemic solutions at city or regional scale under the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative.

Demonstrates solutions that make riparian and coastal areas, waterfront cities and islands more resilient to climate change.

Demonstrates climate-resilience solutions for risks that cross internal EU borders, such as river floods, droughts and wildfires.

Researches how AI can turn climate data into actionable adaptation knowledge and decisions for regions and local authorities.

Develops community-driven business models for sustainable coastal, river and lake tourism that protect local habitats.

Tests and scales solutions that make harbours and ports greener, more circular and more resilient, in line with the Mission Ocean targets.

Deploys innovative urban wastewater and stormwater management adapted to climate change, with energy and resource recovery and water reuse.

Pilots ways to map, restore and expand urban green space and tree canopy, including along transport networks, for cooling, biodiversity and health.