Positive Energy Districts and Neighbourhoods for Climate Neutrality

This call on Positive Energy Districts and Neighbourhoods (PEDs) is facilitated by the JPI Urban Europe, aiming at supporting the large-scale implementation of at least 100 PEDs by 2025. It will find its continuation in the European partnership “Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable Future (DUT)”.

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Call topics:

• PEDs towards climate neutrality: transforming existing urban neighbourhoods
• Making PEDs happen: process innovation and business models

The call aims at funding projects that:

• enhance theoretical and practical knowledge for PED development in terms of both technological innovation and process innovation,
• support the strategic development of key areas of action for PED development as defined within the PED Programme,
• facilitate the achievement of the PED Programme Mission of large-scale implementation of 100 PEDs by 2025,
• develop PEDs as building stones for the Horizon Europe Mission on Climate-neutral and Smart Cities to implement 100 climate-neutral cities by 2030.

Consortium as a whole must include:

• At least two eligible applicants from at least two of the different countries participating in the call.
• At least one city, municipality or entity providing key urban services for a city as an applicant (either main or co-applicant) or as co-operation partners.

At least one Danish non-academic institution as co-applicant in the transnational consortium. IFD can fund both Universities, GTS institutes, Hospitals, Public Organizations and Industry. 

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Call timeline

• Call opening: October 20th 2021
• Proposal deadline: February 24th 2022, 12:00 CET
• National funding decisions and announcement of results to Main Applicants: June 2022
• Earliest expected start of the projects: July 2022
• Kick-off meeting: Late 2022/early 2023

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