The Pilot Call is a joint initiative of nine European funding agencies participating in JPI Urban Europe and NSFC as the Chinese funding agency, with the aim to launch and implement a joint call for proposals as a pilot for long-term cooperation.

Lead partners organising the call are NSFC on the Chinese side and NWO for JPI Urban Europe on the European side. NWO will coordinate the participating and contributing European funding agencies for the present call.

The following European funding agencies are participating in the call:

• Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), Austria

• Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS), Belgium

• Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France

• Ministry of Education and Science (IZM), Latvia

• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), The Netherlands

• The Research Council of Norway (RCN), Norway

• National Science Centre (NCN), Poland

• Swedish Energy Agency (SWEA), Sweden

• Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), United Kingdom

The total funding available in this programme is approximately M€ 9.35 on the European side, across the participating European funding agencies. NSFC will fund the Chinese part of all projects to be funded under this programme.

Each national funding agency will provide funds directly to their eligible investigators in accordance to the agencies’ rules and regulations. Table 1 (page 15) shows the contribution that is available for this call from each national funding agency.

Main thematic areas:

1. a)  Reduce the adverse environmental impact of cities, paying special attention to the quality of air, water and soil, and municipal and other waste management;

2. b)  Access to safe, affordable, and sustainable housing, transportation and basic services; and

3. c)  Integrated policies towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and adaptation to climate change and resilience to disasters.

Topics:

Topic 1: Climate change and new urban economies

Topic 2: Transformation of energy systems and strengthen urban circular economies

Topic 3: Urban public administration and services innovation

Topic 4: Urban data management

Please find more information on the call, scope & expected impact for each  topic, guidelines and submission here. 

Submission deadline for full proposals: Wednesday 20 June 2018.