Call for Proposals: ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity (ENUAC)

DEADLINE: 17 March 2020

The ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity invites researchers, cities, municipalities, businesses, civil society and other stakeholders to build transnational consortia to create challenge-driven innovation and research projects that address the challenges of sustainable urban passenger mobility, freight, transport and connectivity as integral and essential parts of sustainable urban development.

With the shared ambition to create and test new solutions and approaches for sustainable mobility, 16 countries are pooling resources to implement a series of calls for research and innovation projects as well as accompanying measures to create highest impact.

> All details on the call and how to apply> Read the call text

Participating countries: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom. 

> List of funding agencies and national contact points

Call challenges

The call is divided into five challenges that need to be responded in order to move towards realising sustainable urban accessibility and connectivity for all, taking advantage of current solutions and approaches:

Challenge 1: Evolving solutions for an integrated approach on sustainable urban physical mobility and transport, land use and digital connectivity Challenge 2: Develop and support the implementation of innovative mobility systems and services with a potential to contribute to sustainable urban mobility Challenge 3: Transform and re-organise urban spaces to pave the ground for sustainable urban mobility and accessibility at local level, from the street scale to the district Challenge 4: Develop effective policy options for achieving a shift towards sustainable urban accessibility and connectivity Challenge 5: Change behaviours and perspectives towards sustainable urban accessibility and connectivity

Timeline

Call opening: 17 December 2019 Pre-proposal deadline: 17 March 2020 Invitations to submit full proposal: May 2020 Full proposal deadline: 22 September 2020 Funding decisions announced: December 2020 Start of projects: December 2020-March 2021 Projects end: 2024

Events in this call

In addition to events and webinars, interested actors are welcome to the LinkedIn group “Networking in ERA-NET Cofund Urban Accessibility and Connectivity” for self-organised networking and matchmaking. Join the group here!

Matchmaking Event  13 January 2020, 16.00-18.30, Washington (in connection to the annual Transportation Research Board Conference). Register today!

Information Webinar for Applicants  22 January, 13.00-14.30, online. Register today!

Matchmaking Webinar 27 January, 13.00-14.30, online. Register today!

Further information

If you are interested in applying, we recommend that you are in touch with your national contact point for the call. For questions on the general call process and proposal submission, please contact the call secretariat:

Agence Nationale de la Recherche,Aurélien Gaufrès and/or Pascal Bain E-mail: enuac [at] anr.fr

The call was published on jpi-urbaneu website here.

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