Horizon Europe 2025 EU Missions: 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030
Funding available through Horizon Europe to support climate-neutral and smart cities, with up to €15m for the largest projects.
Opportunity Details
When
Registration Opens
06/05/2025
Registration Closes
20/01/2026
Award
Up to €15m per project, which can fund up to 100% of project costs depending on call type.
Organisation
Horizon Europe
The Work Programme 2025 of the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission, in line with the Implementation Plan of the Cities Mission, supports the implementation of the Mission by providing strong and direct support to cities committed to climate-neutrality, enabling them to implement their climate action plans and achieve climate-neutrality by 2030. The cities benefitting from these actions will act as experimentation and innovation hubs for other European cities aiming to become climate-neutral by 2050.
Cities’ green and digital transformation with the aim of climate-neutrality is associated with important co-benefits and urban qualities such as reduced air and noise pollution, more sustainable mobility, improved health and well-being, reduced urban environmental footprints, enhanced urban greening, more efficient use of energy and infrastructures, as well as improved waste and water management. It also improves policy coherence across sectors and stimulates participatory and inclusive decision-making.
Potential applicants are invited to sign up for the EU Missions Info Days on 22-23 May and the related Brokerage Events on 26-27 May.
Horizon Europe Cluster 5: Climate, Energy and Mobility and Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment also include calls related to this topic.
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In line with Horizon Europe, all the actions supported by this call are open to actors from EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries.
Unless otherwise provided for in the specific call/topic conditions, only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate in actions provided that the consortium includes, as beneficiaries, three legal entities independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
- at least one independent legal entity established in a Member State;
- and at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries (this includes the UK).
Our European team can help you find eligible partners to form a consortium.
There may be further eligibility conditions for specific topics. Please check the Work Programme and talk to our team to ensure your eligibility before applying.
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Potential applicants are invited to sign up for the EU Missions Info Days on 22 May (8.30am-5pm CET / 7.30am-4pm GMT) and 23 May (8.30am-3pm CET / 7.30am-2pm GMT), and the related Brokerage Events on 26-27 May.
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Single-stage calls with a deadline of 4 Sep 2025:
- Coupling circularity and climate mitigation in industrial sites and their cities and regions – total budget €1m, c.€8.5m per project
- Innovative, AI-based solutions for urban planning and management – total budget €24m, c.€6m per project
- Increasing walking and cycling: to reap health benefits, emission reductions and integrate active mobility and micro-mobility devices, with smart technologies and infrastructure – total budget €12m, c.€6m per project. This is a joint call with the Cancer Mission.
Single-stage call with deadline 20 Jan 2026:
- Boosting the transformation towards climate-neutral cities, the net-zero economy and open strategic autonomy through Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) – total budget €37m, c.€7-12m per project
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The following cross-cutting actions will also be funded as part of all EU Missions, opening in Dec 2025 with a closing date of 31 Mar 2026:
- Strengthening skills and capacity for the deployment of EU Missions – c.€1m for a single project
- Understanding and overcoming barriers to the scale-up of innovations supporting EU Missions – c.€2m for a single project
- Advancing lead markets and proof-of-concept for deep tech solutions contributing to EU Missions – total budget €8m, c.€4m per project
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