Driving Urban Transitions (DUT): planned international call and webinar (9/9/2025)

The initiative Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) prepares a call for proposals of international research projects addressing urban challenges to help cities in their transition towards a more sustainable economy and functioning. Call is planned to open on 1. 9. 2025, deadline for pre-proposals is planned on 17. 11. 2025.

Participation of Czech entities should be funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR).

► On 9. 9. 2025, DUT organise a webinar for applicants. Event webpage and registration.

If you plan to participate in a proposal, please, contact well in advance, 1 month before the deadline at the latest, the Project Management Department (Martina Holíková, martina.holikova@natur.cuni.cz), so that all the formal requirements of the application can be prepared in time.

If you consider coordinating a project, please contact us AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, ca. 2–3 months before the deadline at the very latest.

• DUT Call 2025 – info about the call, participating countries, timeline, key links.
• Draft call text.
• DUT Matchmaking Platform.
• Projects successful in the DUT call 2023.
• TA CR webpage for this call (in Czech) – updates for Czech participants (documents for Czech participants will be also published here).
• TA CR webpage for this programme in English.

Proposals must focus on at least one of the following “Transition Pathways” that are further divided into topics. ATTENTION, applicants from Czechia will be able to participate only in proposals on some selected topics, this will be specified on the TA CR webpage for this call (in the previous call, only 1 topic in 15-Minute City and 2 topics in Positive Energy Districts were open for Czech applicants).

• 15-minute City (15mC)
  • Next steps for multimodal urban mobility, building on the travel experience.
  • Reimagining parking – transforming urban parking policies.
  • Mobility policymaking in context of radical contestation.
• Circular Urban Economies (CUE)
  • Resilient green and social infrastructure.
  • Sustainable tourism – circular benefits and challenges.
  • Public procurement to foster urban greening and circularity.
• Positive Energy Districts (PED)
  • Driving a just transition: PED strategies in social and subsidised housing.
  • Ensuring positive socio-economic impact: PEDs in local economies and energy markets.
  • PEDs in urban heating and cooling strategies.

The project consortium must consist of at least 3 partners from 3 different countries participating in the call, out of that at least 2 must be EU member states or Horizon Europe associated countries – usual consortia consist of partners from 3–5 countries. Consortia must include at least 1 urban government authority. 1 Principal Investigator (person) cannot participate in more than 2 proposals.
Each partner must fulfil the eligibility criteria of their national funder.

Countries planning participation in the call: Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Czechia (though not listed on DUT website yet), Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, The Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia.

Funding of participation of Czech entities is linked to the TA CR programme Sigma (Sub-objective 4), only applied research will probably be supported. Total financial allocation for Czech participation in this call is EUR 700 000. Maximal funding rate for Czech participants will probably be 80 % (for the Czech part of the project in total).

Project proposals will be submitted online by the coordinator. Czech participants will probably have to simultaneously submit to TA CR a “project proposal” via SISTA (it will probably contain administrative and budget information) by the pre-proposal deadline, in order for TA CR to check the national eligibility of the proposal.

News published by Ludmila Součková on 17. 5. 2025.

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