Transformation of places on the ground calls 2023-2024

Support an additional number of highly innovative projects. The call will fund projects to deliver tangible, real-life examples of New European Bauhaus interventions integrating the three core values of the NEB.

• Dates: October 2022 – January 2023                   
• Budget: EUR 50 million                    
• For whom: Public authorities                       
• Funding instrument: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Dedicated Call
• Further information: European Urban Initiative
• Work programme:
• Info session:

The ultimate objective of the proposed action is the development of a set of lighthouse affordable housing districts that each have followed a different approach, focussing on one or a combination of different innovative strands. The proposed action supports the New European Bauhaus and Affordable Housing Initiative, as lighthouse districts should display the application of the New European Bauhaus practices focussing on co-creation with the affected populations as well as on their improved quality of experience (including in terms of aesthetic or cultural meaningfulness) resulting from the renovation and building of social housing districts.

• Dates: December 2022 – April 2023
• Budget: EUR 10 million
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus' dedicated call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 7. Digital, Industry and Space
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session: 12-14 December 2022

The objective of this topic is to explore and demonstrate how to operationalise collaborative climate mitigation and adaptation urban planning approaches deploying “greening” and renaturing solutions for regeneration, re-purposing, rehabilitation and pollution abatement purposes. The co-created plans should be in line with the guiding principles of the European Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus initiative.

• Dates: January – April 2023
• Budget: EUR 40 million
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus' dedicated call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 12. Missions
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session: 17 January

This topic is calling for a proposal addressing four specific needs, out of which three are connected with the New European Bauhaus. One project will be selected for the development of skills in sustainable construction in the framework of the NEB Academy (New European Bauhaus – LIFE in the building and construction). Two projects will be supported for the reconstruction of Ukraine (Phoenix: Project for a holistic orientation towards environmental new infrastructure in Ukrainian Cities – waste; Phoenix: Project for a holistic orientation towards environmental new infrastructure in Ukrainian Cities - Water). ' Phoenix' aims to develop and put Ukrainian cities cutting-edge expertise from the New European Bauhaus (NEB) community at the disposal in affordable and sustainable reconstruction. The initiative also connects Ukrainian cities with like-minded ones in the EU to exchange experiences on their way to climate neutrality and more energy efficiency.

Dates: April 2023 – September 2023

Budget: EUR 3 million (budget for New European Bauhaus projects, including ‘Phoenix’)

For whom: All eligible entities under LIFE

Funding instrument: Programme for the Environment and Climate Action (LIFE)

Type of call: New European Bauhaus' contributing call

Further information: call

Work programme: LIFE Work Programme 2021-2024

Call document

Info session: 25-26 April 2023; 25 May 2023

Presentation:

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With this topic, the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking aims to support the establishment of the NEB Academy network in order to facilitate the re-skilling and upskilling of the construction ecosystem, to make it more attractive for younger people, and to enable the uptake of new, innovative circular and bio-based solutions. This topic will help advance the transition from an extractive, mineral-based and fossil hydrocarbon-fuelled construction economy to a regenerative bio-economy and circular system of material reuse.

Dates: July 2023 – October 2023

Budget: EUR 1 million

For whom: all legal entities from EU and associated countries eligible for Horizon Europe

Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)

Type of call: New European Bauhaus dedicated call

Further information: call

Work programme: Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking Annual Work Programme and Budget 2023

Info session: 20 April 2023

The overall purpose of this Co-Create NEB Call for Proposals is to demonstrate new solutions to boost the transformation of cities, rural and peri-urban areas, by bringing individuals and communities closer to nature, bringing a sense of belonging, addressing the needs of territories, and communities that needed specific attention, and transforming value chains and life of materials towards circularity.

The grant will award products and services (including rapid prototypes) and/or the co-design of of public realm and commons, addressing at least one of the EIT Community NEB Challenges based on the New European Bauhaus four thematic axes:

• Reconnecting with nature
• Regaining a sense of belonging
• Prioritising the places and people that need it the most
• The need for long-term, life cycle thinking in the industrial ecosystem

Dates: July 2023 – October 2023

Budget: EUR 120,000

For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  

Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)

Type of call: New European Bauhaus dedicated call

Further information: 

• Co-create NEB Call for proposals
• Call Manual

Info session: Recording available here. 

Match making session: 8 September 2023. Register here.

The New European Bauhaus, closely connected to culture and cultural heritage, brings a cultural and creative dimension to the European Green Deal. Proposals should test, demonstrate and refine innovative solutions to achieve strategic investments in cultural heritage and the cultural heritage and cultural and creative industries (CCIs) in the spirit of the New European Bauhaus initiative. They are expected to bring together researchers, practitioners, managers and entrepreneurs from different cultural and creative industries (e.g. design, fashion, crafts, arts and heritage professionals at large), as well as to engage with the communities on the ground.

• Dates: October 2023 – February 2024
• Budget: EUR 16 million
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus' dedicated call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 5. Culture, creativity and inclusive society
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session:

The systemic integration of social, cultural, digital and nature-based innovation in the design, development and governance of public space has a tremendous potential to transform these spaces into diverse, accessible, safe, inclusive and high-quality areas that increase well-being and health and deliver a fair and equitable distribution of the associated benefits. It is important to analyse the potential of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) in the context of the New European Bauhaus initiative, and to conceptualise and demonstrate how to link these two approaches, avoid trade-offs, and enhance synergies and complementarities, through local demonstration.

• Dates: October 2023 – February 2024
• Budget: EUR 10 million
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus' dedicated call
• Further information:call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 9. Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session: 27 September 2023

Existing built works (buildings and infrastructure) can potentially act as a significant ‘material bank’, providing a rich source of secondary materials and products for construction. There is a need to research new digitally powered techniques and technologies that would rapidly and accurately identify, analyse and record existing construction materials, products and components, facilitating their use in a circular economy and reducing life cycle impacts, including embodied carbon. Proposals should therefore aim to foster selective deconstruction, separation of hazardous materials, sorting, and high-quality recycling. They would thus contribute to the aims of the New European Bauhaus.

• Dates: December 2022 – March 2023
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 7. Digital, Industry and Space
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session:12-14 December 2022

Photovoltaic (PV) integration in buildings and in infrastructure unlocks huge potential for renewable electricity generation. Integrated PV require individual solutions in order to meet multi-functional and aesthetic requirements such as yield-friendly colouring or modular transparency, antifouling property, structural flexibility, module lightness and flexibility, suited voltage levels, the use of and combination with (building) materials other than glass, and an overall high aesthetical value that addresses the requirements of architects and designers.

• Dates: December 2022 – March 2023
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session:15-16 December 2022

Proposals should be large scale demonstrations of hybrid nature-based solutions with built coastal and marine infrastructures to preserve ecosystems and/or support their restoration. Proposals should explore and improve co-creation approaches with the relevant actors (infrastructure owners, governance, civil society and end-users or beneficiaries) for the design, installation and management of these built infrastructures with nature centred design. Projects are expected to contribute to the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative by interacting with the NEB Community, NEBLab and other relevant actions of the NEB initiative through sharing information, best practices, and, where relevant, results.

• Dates: December 2022 – March 2023
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 9. Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session:13-14 December 2022

Bio-based construction materials offer major opportunities to contribute to the climate-neutral and zero-pollution objectives of the European Green Deal, replacing fossil-based alternatives, and so, reducing the environmental footprint, while offering economic benefits to the actors involved. However, care needs to be taken to ensure sustainability of sourcing and production process, while guaranteeing safety and positive user experience. This requires high level of innovation and creativity, ensuring full inclusiveness of participation for all actors.

• Dates: December 2022 – March 2023
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 9. Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session:13-14 December 2022

Proposals should aim to improve rural-urban cooperation, connections and planning for integrated territorial development that adopts equitable measures to respond to socio-environmental disparities and foster sustainable growth. Projects financed under this topic should create synergies with New European Bauhaus (NEB) projects, facilitating the sharing of ideas between urban and rural settings, and vice-versa. For instance, some NEB projects could inspire good practices on the reuse of buildings in rural areas that can function as innovation hubs or build links between urban and rural areas.

• Dates: December 2022 – April 2023
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 9. Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session:13-14 December 2022

The digital and green transitions (referred to as ‘twin transitions’) have been changing the workplace at a rapid pace, leading to new forms of work (e.g. hybrid work, gig economy jobs) or changes in the forms of management and work organisation (e.g. through algorithmic decision-making and digital worker performance monitoring) for workers across the spectrum. These changes have varying impacts on the working conditions, income and health and occupational safety both for skilled and unskilled workers. Projects are expected to contribute to the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative66 by interacting with the NEB Community, NEBLab and other relevant actions of the NEB initiative through sharing information, best practice, and, where relevant, results.

• Dates: January – April 2023
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 4. Health
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session:19 January 2023

Land is a limited resource and needs to be managed carefully to meet the various, sometimes conflicting societal demands on land and soil. These demands arise e.g. from urbanisation, food/biomass production and environmental protection. Inadequate practices in land management and in land use planning are main drivers of land degradation and result in the loss of important soil functions. Spatial planning has a considerable role to play when it comes to steering a more balanced and sustainable use of land and ensuring that net land take is reduced, in particular if applying the principles of a “land take hierarchy”. As relevant, activities should seek to link up with the European Bauhaus and contribute to its objectives and initiatives.

Dates: January 2023 – September of 2023

Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus

For whom: all legal entities from EU and associated countries eligible for Horizon Europe

Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)

Type of call: New European Bauhaus contributing call

Further information: call

Work programme: 

• HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
• HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 12. Missions
• HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

Info session: 18 January 2023

The overarching objective of this Challenge is to provide transformative digital products or digitally enabled solutions for the AEC sector that can help it achieve climate neutrality while striving to comply with or contribute to the human-centred quality values and principles brought forward by the New European Bauhaus. Support will be provided to pioneering start-ups and SMEs that propose digital or digitally enabled design and fabrication products with the aim to reduce or eliminate the embodied CO2 emissions of buildings by enabling the use of less materials and / or of alternative materials.

• Dates: No deadline, continuous January – October 2023
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information:  EIC platform
• Work programme:  EIC 2023 Work Programme
• Info session:13 December 2022

President von der Leyen’s statement on 27 April 2022 and the subsequent Commission Communication on Ukraine Relief and Reconstruction of 18 May 2022 propose to involve, through partnerships, the cities of the European Union in the reconstruction of the Ukrainian cities. This effort provides a unique opportunity for Ukraine and its cities to combine reconstruction considerations with long-term climate neutrality and sustainability objectives in line with the EU Green Deal, relevant international policy frameworks and the New European Bauhaus initiative. The purpose of this action is to associate more closely Ukrainian cities in the process of transition towards climate neutrality that is being promoted by the Horizon Europe Climate neutral and smart cities Mission.

Dates: April 2023 – September 2023

Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus

For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe

Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)

Type of call: New European Bauhaus' contributing call

Further information: call

Work programme: 

HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction

HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 12. Missions

HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

Info session: 17 January 2023 / 25 May 2023

Presentation:

For effective fast-tracking and promotion of built environment construction and renovation innovation with local value chains, nascent construction innovation clusters need to link with regional/national innovation hubs and clusters. This will strengthen multidisciplinary networking and collaboration amongst all actors of local and regional construction ecosystems and reinforce European value chains. A long-term network structure is needed, based on an appropriate business model and governance, to support these clusters and give them capacity to nurture and help deliver public and private investments in sustainable construction and renovation innovation also supporting digitalisation of the value chain.

• Dates: May – September 2023
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session:15-16 December 2022

The focus will be on the different facilities of the built environment (buildings, multimodal hubs, public spaces and other infrastructure for people’s use) that are open to the public. Built environment professionals require support to design, plan, build and operate facilities that are accessible and inclusive. Design concepts should make these facilities accessible for persons with disabilities and fragile people, following an inclusive, ‘design for all’ approach.

• Dates: May – September 2023
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session:15-16 December 2022

This Challenge seeks to develop research and early innovations with a breakthrough potential related to design, fabrication and materials for the AEC value chain enabled by novel algorithms and advanced digitalization. In such a digitalized AEC value chain design, fabrication and materials are symbiotic and mutually dependent and enabling. This combination can enable designers, architects, engineers, and fabricators to imagine, design, optimise and create complex and efficient structures within a digitalisation pathway, in response to ever more ambitious requirements for climate neutral, sustainable, inclusive, aesthetic, and inspiring buildings. Projects are expected to follow principles aligned with key EU initiatives such as the European Green Deal or the New European Bauhaus.

• Dates: June – October 2023
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information:  
• Work programme:  EIC 2023 Work Programme
• Info session:13 December 2022

Regular maintenance and repair of civil engineering infrastructure extends their service life, which in turn reduces the need for their demolition and replacement, and the related negative economic, environmental and climate impacts. However, it can be difficult and cumbersome to identify and address maintenance or repair needs, especially in locations that are difficult to access such as large or tall structures, deep shafts, or where elements are hidden from view. Intervention for maintenance and repair can also involve unnecessary risks to the health and safety of workers. Proposals should build on, or seek collaboration with, existing projects or solutions, and develop synergies with other relevant European, national or regional initiatives, funding programmes and platforms, such as the New European Bauhaus.

• Dates: September 2023- February 2024
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 7. Digital, Industry and Space
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session: 11 October 2023

The decarbonisation of the built environment and its adaptation to a changing climate and to societal needs in terms of comfort, accessibility, inclusiveness, and aesthetics cannot happen without active participation of the buildings’ users and occupants, individual / collective property owners, and energy communities as beneficiaries of the value chain. This topic focuses on the development of digital solutions for a stronger participation of end users, citizens and other relevant stakeholders in the design, planning and management of the renovation of existing buildings, neighbourhoods and / or districts.

• Dates: May – September 2024
• Budget: no pre-established amount allocated to the New European Bauhaus
• For whom: All eligible entities under Horizon Europe  
• Funding instrument: Horizon Europe (HORIZON)
• Type of call: New European Bauhaus Contributing Call
• Further information: call
• Work programme: 

1. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 1. General Introduction
2. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
3. HE Main Work Programme 2023-2024 – 13. General Annexes

• Info session: 17 October 2023