Boosting the transformation towards climate-neutral cities, the net-zero economy and open strategic autonomy through Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP)
Supporting the implementation of the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission · HORIZON-PCP · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds groups of public procurers (cities) that join forces to jointly buy research and development of new solutions that cut greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions. It doesn't fund companies or researchers directly - instead it pays cities to run a pre-commercial procurement process, so companies compete to develop and pilot climate solutions that cities can later purchase and scale up.
climate adaptation · smart cities · renewable energy · energy efficiency · mobility transport · regional development
Who wins this
A consortium led by a city from the EU Mission's 112 climate-neutral cities, together with other public procurers, aiming to run a joint pre-commercial procurement for emission-reducing technologies.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €7M–€12M
- Funding model
- Budget-based — reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Pre-commercial Procurement
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium — at least 3 partners.
- Eligible applicants
- public body
- Support to third parties
- Beneficiaries may give financial support to third parties as grants to incentivize end-users to adopt solutions, capped at EUR 200,000 per third party.
- Also required
- This topic funds only consortia of public procurers (not companies/researchers directly); at least three cities from the EU Mission's 112 selected climate-neutral cities must participate, with the lead procurer being one of them; special PCP conditions in Annex H apply, including possible EU/Associated Countries place-of-performance and participation restrictions.
- 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, IL, TR, UA, RS, MK, ME, AL, BA, XK, GE, AM, MD, TN, NZ
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 The specific conditions for actions with PCP/PPI procurements in section H of the General Annexes apply to grants funded under this topic. 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 Grants awarded under this topic will be linked to the following action(s): HORIZON-MISS-2021-CIT-02-03 Collaboration with the Cities Mission Platform[[ Conceived through the Horizon 2020 project NetZeroCities - Accelerating cities' transition to net zero emissions by 2030, Grant Agreement n. 101036519, and scaled up through the topic HORIZON-MISS-2021-CIT-02-03: Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) for the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission Platform. ]] is essential and projects must ensure that appropriate provisions for activities and resources aimed at enforcing this collaboration are included in the work plan of the proposal. The collaboration with the Cities Mission Platform must be formalized through a Memorandum of Understanding to be concluded as soon as possible after the project starting date. The Cities Mission Platform should in particular support cities with the preparatory work for the PCP and facilitate the upscaling as well as the replicability of the solutions that will be developed through the PCP[[ Resources for this are foreseen under the Specific Grant Agreements to the Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) for the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission Platform.]]. The beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties to provide financial incentives to final end-users to adopt the solutions. The support to third parties can only be provided in the form of grants. The maximum amount to be granted to each third party is EUR 200 000. This amount is justified since the FSTP actions need to allow procurers to provide financial incentives to final end-users to adopt the solutions; therefore, the amount needs to be sufficient to support the deployment and maximise the impact of the project outcomes. Projects funded under this topic, which target the higher end of the budget range, should demonstrate a greater degree of ambition in terms of innovation level and/or deployment scope. PCP/PPI procurement costs are eligible. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions Not applicable.
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