Apply for P2R Second Call for Regions and Communities

Funding Information

• Total funding available: 12 810 000,00 €

Duration

• Expected duration of participation: 18 months

Eligible Activities

• Eligible subgrant activities will follow the provision for activities under Horizon Europe (HE) cost categories, and will be organized along the following:
  • Activities to develop regional pathways, plans and innovation portfolios towards climate resilience building on existing assessments of trends and projections of future climate change risks.
  • Activities to develop Investment Plans to translate those pathways, plans and portfolios into pipelines of bankable projects.
  • Activities supporting the process of developing the pathways as specified in the scope topic text including relevant stakeholder engagement and capacity building.
  • Activities related to communication, dissemination and exploitation and project management activities.

Expected Outcomes

• Mobilising regional interest and progressively elevating the ambition and capability of regions;
• Development of climate resilience pathways and connected innovation portfolios with the support of the RRJ framework (and supporting services);
• Development of an investment plan using the AIC framework to support the implementation of the climate resilience strategy;
• Activating engagement of citizens and diverse stakeholders in the co-creation of the pathways;
• Increasing knowledge on transformative adaptation innovation across KCS and KEC;
• Boosting literacy and access to innovative adaptation finance; and
• Baselining and monitoring regional resilience capabilities through the Resilience Maturity Curve (RMC).

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants must be regions/communities that are either part of EU Member States (including Outermost Regions); or Associated Countries that are within Europe’s biogeographical regions
• Applicants must also be legal entities (for acting as coordinators and submitting the application) defined as either:
  • Public authorities at Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) 1, 2 and 3 level, and Local Administrative Units (LAU); or
  • Bodies governed by public law in compliance with Article 2.4 of the Directive 2014/24/EU.
• The following legal entities may be part of a consortium: a) Private non-profit bodies and b) Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) following the EU definition by the Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC
• Applications must define a clear geographical scope (where possible, framed within the NUTSand LAU systems) for the implementation of the P2R frameworks

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