CapaCITIES 2.0 is designed as a support action for national and regional authorities to advance their governance structures for providing dedicated support for cities to achieve the EU Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission (EU Cities Mission) – answering to the Call HORIZON-MISS-2024-CIT-02-01. As a central initiative to foster and strengthen national narratives for the EU Cities Mission, it will coordinate actions across climate-neutral initiatives for cities in Europe, align and speed up efforts towards the goals of the Mission. CapaCITIES 2.0 will further shape a European environment conducive to urban climate neutrality transitions for national, regional and local authorities. It will initiate and strengthen national change processes to establish and mature national networks and platforms as well as multi-level governance in the entire EU, building on the experience of the CapaCITIES that already started setting-up national platforms in 15 EU countries. It provides dedicated support for public authorities to put enabling conditions and measures for cities in place to achieve the EU Cities Mission. Thereby, it contributes to reach (1) Increased preparedness and capacity of national, regional and local authorities in EU Member States and countries associated to Horizon Europe to engage in cities’ transition towards climate neutrality; (2) Improved ability to effectively address country-specific challenges and barriers for cities to achieve climate neutrality related to current regulatory frameworks, funding and financing, and governance structures and promotion of best-practices through transnational exchanges and sharing of experience and (3) Enhanced synergies with R&I national/international communities, relevant initiatives, and partnerships such as the ‘Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable Future’ Horizon Europe Partnership and the NetZeroCities – the EU Mission Platform(NZC) for the implementation of the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission.
Project funding:
EU Research and Innovation Funding Programme “Horizon Europe”
Period of project implementation: 2025-05-01 - 2027-04-30
Project coordinator: UNITATEA EXECUTIVA PENTRU FINANTAREA INVATAMANTULUI SUPERIOR ACERCETARII DEZVOLTARII SI INOVARII
Project partners: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, University of Vaasa, Agenzia Nazionale per le Nuove Tecnologie, l’Energia e lo Sviluppo Economico Sostenibile (ENEA), Zilinska univerzita v ziline, ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS (CERTH), Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, Laboratorio Nacional de Energia e Geologia I.P., INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TECNICO, VAASAN YLIOPISTO, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE (CNR), AGENZIA PER LA PROMOZIONE DELLA RICERCA EUROPEA (APRE), KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOGSKOLAN, UNIVERSIDAD POLITECNICA DE MADRID, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, POLITECHNIKA WARSZAWSKA, TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT, OSTERREICHISCHE FORSCHUNGSFORDERUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH, FONDATSIYA TSENTAR ZA ENERGIYNA EFEKTIVNOST - ENEFEKT, MINISTERSTVO PRO MISTNI ROZVOJ, EMI EPITESUGYI MINOSEGELLENORZO INNOVACIOS NONPROFIT KFT, NEMZETI INFORMACIOS INFRASTRUKTURA FEJLESZTESI IRODA, ICLEI EUROPEAN SECRETARIAT GMBH, DIRECAO GERAL DO TERRITORIO, STICHTING CLIMATE-KIC INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION, UNIVERZITA SV. CYRILA A METODA V TRNAVE, Turkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu, STIFTELSEN DESIGN OG ARKITEKTUR NORGE, CENTRE SCIENTIFIQUE ET TECHNIQUE DU BATIMENT, SARAJEVSKA REGIONALNA RAZVOJNA AGENCIJA SERDA DOO SARAJEVO, AUSTRIATECH - GESELLSCHAFT DES BUNDES FUR TECHNOLOGIEPOLITISCHE MASSNAHMEN GMBH, SIR SALZBURGER INSTITUT FUR RAUMORDNUNG UND WOHNEN GMBH, GENIKI GRAMMATIA EREVNAS KAI KAINOTOMIAS, VERENIGING VAN VLAAMSE STEDEN EN GEMEENTEN, CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE, CONCITO, MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITA E DELLA RICERCA, STICHTING PLATFORM31, RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB, STATENS ENERGIMYNDIGHET, AL-GREEN-EU&GLOBAL MISSIONS, EUROPEAN REGIONS RESEARCH AND INNOVATION NETWORK, YPOURGEIO PERIVALLONTOS KAI ENERGEIAS, REGIONALNA ENERGETSKO-KLIMATSKA AGENCIJA SJEVEROZAPADNE HRVATSKE, UNIVERZITA SV. CYRILA A METODA V TRNAVE, XJENZA MALTA, CENTRE D ETUDES ET D EXPERTISE SUR LES RISQUES L ENVIRONNEMENT LA MOBILITE ET L AMENAGEMENT, ENERGY CITIES/ENERGIE-CITES ASSOCIATION, REGION ILE DE FRANCE, AGENTIA NATIONALA PENTRU CERCETARE SI DEZVOLTARE
