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December Digest: Funding Opportunities for EU and non-EU member regions

17 December, 2019 By Claudia Bedea

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Are you on the hunt for some new EU-project opportunities and inspiration for the New Year?

The AER Project Unit has prepared the below digest of EU funding opportunities which may be of interest to AER member regions.

These calls may be of particular interest to non-EU member regions.

Should you require any further information or assistance in putting together a project proposal or finding partners, please do not hesitate to reach out to the Project Unit.

Sustainable Development Goals

Title:Supporting Research Organisations to Implement Gender Equality Plans (Horizon 2020)
Deadline:15 April 2020
About:This research funding encourages both European MS and Associate States to implement actions targeting institutional change through the Gender Equality Plans (GEPs). Among the objective of this call we number: removing barriers to the recruitment, retention and career progression of women researchers, addressing gender imbalances in decision-making processes and respectively integrating the gender dimension in research and innovation content.

Energy and Climate Action

Title:Supporting Public Authorities in Driving Energy Transition (Horizon 2020)
Deadline:10 September 2020
About:The focus of the Call is on decentralisation of Energy Governance, with the main goal of enhancing political commitment at local level through a shift of responsibility in implementation and monitoring of energy efficiency solutions towards local public authorities. Within the scope of this call mentioned are the support to local and regional public authorities and respectively support into transposing the Energy Efficiency Directive.
Title:Mitigating Household Energy Poverty (Horizon 2020)
Deadline:10 September 2020
About:The main goal of actions within this call should be the alleviation of energy poverty as well as the development of a better understanding of the needs of energy poor households. Identification of said needs should be done while accounting for gender differences where relevant or respectively building on already existing initiatives such as the European Energy Poverty Observatory.
Proposed actions should touch upon one or more priorities including; facilitating behavioural change, facilitating financial or non-financial support schemes, and development, testing and dissemination of innovative schemes for energy efficiency.
Title:National Roundtables to Implement the Smart Finance for Smart Buildings Initiative (Horizon 2020)
Deadline:10 September 2020
About:The scope of the Call is that of facilitating the creation/set-up of national roundtables focused on energy efficiency investment. The latter should function in the format of permanent multilateral discussion forums bringing together all relevant stakeholders. Roundtable discussions should analyse the possibility to upscale existing best practices from the national and European level, develop strategies, roadmaps and action plans, propose improvements in the national policy frameworks and measures, and follow their implementation, develop jointly template documents and contracts leading to a better functioning of the market.

Digitisation and (Rural) Development

Title:Boost Rural Economies through Cross-Sector Digital Service Platforms (Horizon 2020)
Deadline:22 April 2020
About:Proposals are expected to develop and demonstrate cost-efficient and flexible cross-domain applications through large-scale pilots. These should build on an open, API-based, interoperable and federated IoT architecture and include a reference implementation supporting flexible integration of heterogeneous services. Pilots should bridge the interoperability gap of the smart object platforms and create markets for service – and application providers as well as platform operators, supported by a vibrant ecosystem of developers, service providers and user communities.

Youth

Title:Support for Policy Reform – Centers of Vocational Excellence (Erasmus+ – Key Action 3)
Deadline:20 February 2020
About:The overall objective of the call is to support the establishment and development of transnational cooperation platforms of Centers of Vocational Excellence (CoVEs) to connect Centers operating in a given local context at European level.

Culture, Cultural Administration and Cultural Heritage

Title:Culture beyond Borders – Facilitating innovation and research cooperation between European museums and heritage sites (Horizon 2020)
Deadline: 12 March 2020
About:The call targets the creation of a network that will bring together European museums and heritage sites (national museums, regional and local museums, European Heritage Label sites and European cultural routes, among others) with researchers and relevant public authorities to support cooperation between European museums and heritage sites. The network will explore ways for innovating in sharing collections, research facilities and specialised knowledge for restauration/conservation, including skills in traditional heritage crafts and technics.

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