Zmluva o spolupráci pri implementácii projektu Európskeho výskumného a inovačného partnerstva Driving Urban Transitions (DUT)

uzavretá podľa § 8 ods. 4 zákona č. 523/2004 Z. z. o rozpočtových pravidlách verejnej správy a o zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov a podľa § 269 ods. 2 zákona č. 513/1991 Zb.

Obchodný zákonník (ďalej len „Zmluva“) Zmluvné strany

Ministerstvo školstva, vedy, výskumu a športu Slovenskej republiky

zastúpené: Xxx. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx minister

sídlo: Stromová 1, 813 30 Bratislava

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Osoba oprávnená komunikovať v odborných veciach:

Xxx. Xxxxx Xxxxx riaditeľ

Odbor európskej a medzinárodnej vednej politiky, Sekcia vedy a techniky

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Xxx. Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx,

Odbor európskej a medzinárodnej vednej politiky, Sekcia vedy a techniky

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peňažný ústav: Štátna pokladnica (ďalej ako „MŠVVaŠ SR“

Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave zastúpená: prof. Xxx. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, PhD. sídlo: Xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxx 0, 000 00 Xxxxxxxxxx

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doc. Xxx. Xxxxxx Xxxxx, PhD.

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číslo účtu: SK 37 8180 0000 0070 0068 5355

peňažný ústav: Štátna pokladnica (ďalej ako "univerzita")

Preambula

Táto zmluva sa uzatvára s cieľom podporiť zvýšenie účasti Slovenskej republiky v európskych výskumných a inovačných partnerstvách implementovaných v rámci rámcového programu EÚ pre výskum a inovácie Horizont Európa 2021 - 2027.

Zmluva sa uzatvára so zreteľom na:

• Nariadenie Európskeho parlamentu a Rady (EÚ) 2021/695 z 28. apríla 2021, ktorým sa zriaďuje Horizont Európa – rámcový program pre výskum a inovácie, stanovujú jeho pravidlá účasti a šírenia a zrušujú nariadenia (EÚ) č. 1290/2013 a (EÚ) č. 1291/20131.

• Anotovanú vzorovú grantovú dohodu programu Horizont Európa (AGA –Annotated Model Grant Agreement)2.

• Grantovú dohodu Európskej komisie č. 000000000 - Driving Urban Transitions, (ďalej len „DUT“), ktorá bola uzavretá dňa 20.6.2022 medzi Európskou komisiou zastúpenou Európskou výkonnou agentúrou pre klímu, infraštruktúru a životné prostredie a koordinátorom projektu Spolkovým ministerstvom pre klímu, životné prostredie, energie, mobilitu, inovácie a technológie, Rakúsko.

• Konzorciálnu dohodu spolu-financovaného európskeho partnerstva Driving Urban Transitions (DUT).

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Všeobecné ustanovenia

1. Projekt partnerstva DUT je realizovaný na základe výzvy Európskeho rámcového programu pre výskum a inovácie HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01 a je spolu-financovaný Európskou komisiou v rámci tematickej priority HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-16 ako tzv. Cofund action.

Sumár projektu: partnerstvo DUT je založené na aktivitách iniciatívy založenej na spoločnom programovaní JPI Urban Europe a jej partnerov v 27 členských krajinách EÚ s cieľom implementovať výskumný a inovačný program zameraný na transformáciu

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miest na klimaticky neutrálne, inkluzívne a udržateľné komunity. Projekt si kladie za cieľ združiť organizácie zodpovedné za implementáciu národných a regionálnych programov výskumu a inovácií, financujúce organizácie a inštitúcie zapojené do územného plánovania. DUT sa sústreďuje na tri kritické oblasti fungovania a rozvoja a potreby ako sú energie, mobilita a obehová ekonomika vrátane ich vzájomných interakcií v rámci troch tzv. Transition Pathways (TP) - Positive Energy Districts (PED), 15-minute City (15minC) a Circular Urban Economics (CUE).

V rámci partnerstva DUT sú poskytované fin. prostriedky na riešenie nadnárodných projektov výskumu a inovácií v rámci spoločne implementovaných a spolu- financovaných cezhraničných výziev. Súčasťou projektu sú aj komplexné aktivity zamerané na riadenie projektu, budovanie kapacít a podporu dopadu a prenosu výsledkov projektov výskumu a inovácií. Aktivity sú zamerané na široký okruh partnerov a ich zapojenie do spolutvorby a riešenia výskumných a inovačných aktivít vrátane ich zapojenia do vytváraných živých mestských laboratóriáí (Urban Living Labs).

2. Pristúpením ku grantovej dohode dňa 8.7.2022 sa MŠVVaŠ SR (PIC 968020328) stalo príjemcom (beneficiary) v rámci projektu DUT, pričom MŠVVaŠ SR zabezpečuje predovšetkým koordinačnú, organizačnú a administratívnu stránku účasti Slovenskej republiky v projekte DUT.

3. Účasť a rozsah aktivít Univerzity ako tretej strany zapojenej do implementácie projektu partnerstva DUT vyplýva z prílohy č.1 "Description of the Action (Part B)“ ku grantovej dohode DUT, pričom univerzita najmä zabezpečuje odbornú stránku riešenia projektu prostredníctvom vykonávania aktivít podľa určených pracovných balíčkov smerujúcich k implementácii projektu DUT.

4. Dňa 3.2.2023 MŠVVaŠ SR pristúpilo ku konzorciálnej dohode partnerstva DUT, ktorá bližšie upravuje práva a povinnosti strán zúčastnených na implementácii projektu DUT vrátane jeho financovania.

5. Doba trvania projektu DUT je ustanovená grantovou dohodou a to od 1.1.2022 do 31.12.2028 (84 mesiacov)

6. Riadenie projektu, monitorovanie dosahovaných cieľov ako aj všetky nadväzujúce administratívne procedúry a postupy sú vykonávané spravidla elektronicky prostredníctvom portálu Európskej komisie EU Funding & Tender Portal.

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Vysvetlenie pojmov

Projekt DUT - je projektom tzv. spolufinancovaného európskeho výskumného a inovačného partnerstva spolufinancovaného z programu Horizont Európa.

Xxxxxxxx xxxxxx XXX- Xxxxxxxx dohoda Európskej komisie č. 000000000 - Driving Urban Trasitions - zmluva uzatvorená medzi koordinátorom projektu a Európskou komisiou (EK), ku ktorej pristupujú ďalší príjemcovia a partneri, pričom určuje pravidlá a

aktivity vykonávané pri implementácií projektu DUT ako aj rozpočet a harmonogram aktivít. Xxxxxxxx dohoda sa uzatvára podľa vzorovej grantovej dohody programu Horizont Európa (Model Grant Agreement).

Konzorciálna dohoda DUT – Konzorciálna dohoda spolufinancovaného európskeho partnerstva Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) je zmluva uzatvorená medzi koordinátorom a účastníkmi projektu partnerstva, ktorej predmetom je úprava vzájomných práv a povinností v rámci implementácie projektu.

Koordinátor projektu – právnická osoba vystupujúca ako prostredník medzi účastníkmi projektu a grantovou autoritou (EK).

Účastníci projektu - subjekty participujúce na implementácii projektu DUT v roli príjemcov, asociovaných organizácií a 3. strán poskytujúcich nefinančné in-kind príspevky.

Príjemca - príjemca je účastníkom projektu, ktorý je riadnym členom konzorcia a priamo pristupuje ku grantovej a konzorciálnej dohode prostredníctvom formulára pre pristúpenie, príjemcom pre účel tejto zmluvy je XXXXxX SR.

Ročný pracovný program – je pracovný plán vyplývajúci z prílohy č. 1 grantovej dohody DUT a reflektujúci aktivity vykonávané v rámci implementácie cestovnej mapy DUT. Ročný pracovný program je každoročne pripravený na základe vstupov koordinátora a predložených záväzkov príjemcov, pričom výsledný ročný pracovný program schvaľuje Správna rada DUT.

Pracovný balíček – je súborom úloh, ktorých realizácia smeruje k naplneniu pracovného plánu podľa grantovej dohody a ročných pracovných programov.

In-kind príspevky - sú pre účely tejto zmluvy nefinančným vkladom 3. strán do projektu, ktoré sú poskytované podľa čl. 2 (36) finančných pravidiel EÚ.

Oprávnené náklady – sú skutočné náklady, ktoré podľa čl. 6.1 grantovej dohody:

• vznikli príjemcovi v priamej súvislosti s implementáciou aktivít projektu podľa prílohy č.1 "Description of the Action (Part B)“ ku grantovej dohode DUT

• vznikli v období špecifikovanom v grantovej dohode ako doba riešenia projektu a v období do podania finálnej správy EK,

• sú príjemcom deklarované v jednej z kategórií oprávnených nákladov podľa čl. 6.2 a prílohy č.2 grantovej dohody DUT,

• sú identifikovateľné a preukázateľné v účtovných dokladoch príjemcu v súlade s obvyklou účtovnou praxou príjemcu,

• musia byť v súlade s relevantnými zákonmi a inými všeobecne záväznými predpismi v domovskej krajine príjemcu, najmä z odvetvia daňového práva, pracovného práva a práva sociálneho zabezpečenia,

• sú vynaložené v súlade s princípom hospodárnosti a efektivity a správneho finančného manažmentu.

Portál EÚ - EU Funding & Tender Portal (ďalej len "portál") je elektronickým portálom spravovaným a využívaným Európskou komisiou a ďalšími inštitúciami na zabezpečenie prípravy a následnej implementácie projektov v rámci grantových programov EÚ. Jeho

súčasťou aj modul pre vykazovanie realizovaných aktivít a dosiahnutých cieľov partnerstva.

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Predmet Zmluvy

1. Predmetom zmluvy je spolupráca MŠVVaŠ SR a univerzity pri zabezpečovaní účasti Slovenskej republiky v projekte partnerstva DUT, úprava vzájomných práv a povinností zmluvných strán vyplývajúcich z grantovej a konzorciálnej dohody DUT, zastupovanie v riadiacich orgánoch DUT a pri aktivitách v rámci partnerstva DUT a úprava vykazovania a refundácie oprávnených nákladov z prostriedkov partnerstva DUT.

2. Univerzita sa do implementácie partnerstva DUT zapája v rozsahu aktivít stanovených v zmysle prílohy prílohy č.1 "Description of the Action (Part B)“ ku grantovej dohode DUT, ktorá je neoddeliteľnou súčasťou tejto zmluvy.

3. Univerzita sa zaväzuje prispievať k implementácii projektu najmä prostredníctvom poskytovania tzv. nefinančných in-kind príspevkov, v rámci pridelených pracovných balíčkov a s nimi súvisiacich aktivít, ktoré sú každoročne určené ročným pracovným programom DUT schvaľovaným Správnou radou DUT, a to v rozsahu vyčlenených osobo/mesiacov.

4. Univerzita sa zapája do implementácie projektu pod záštitou MŠVVaŠ SR prostredníctvom určených zamestnancov univerzity (tzv. seconded personnel).

5. Zamestnanci univerzity zapojení do implementácie projektu DUT:

Meno a priezvisko	Dátum narodenia	Podpis
Xxxxxx Xxxxx	Xxxxxxxx 21.7.1984
Xxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx	Xxxxxxxx 26.8.1978
Xxxxx Xxxxxxx	Xxxxxxxx 26.12.1984

6. Zmluvné strany sa dohodli, že určení zamestnanci univerzity zapojení do projektu DUT budú aktivity v rámci implementácie projektu vykonávať spravidla v priestoroch univerzity.

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Práva a povinnosti zmluvných strán

1. Zmluvné strany sa zaväzujú plniť svoje záväzky v rámci implementácie projektu DUT.

2. MŠVVaŠR sa zaväzuje koordinovať účasť univerzity na implementácii projektu DUT v rozsahu aktivít podľa prílohy prílohy č.1 "Description of the Action (Part B)“ ku grantovej dohode DUT.

3. MŠVVaŠ SR zastupuje záujmy univerzity v partnerstve DUT, vrátane účasti na rokovaní riadiacich orgánov DUT, najmä správnej rady, ktorá je hlavným riadiacim orgánom partnerstva DUT.

4. MŠVVaŠ SR podľa potreby prizve zástupcu univerzity na rokovanie orgánov DUT, univerzita taktiež poskytne MŠVVaŠ SR potrebné podklady, stanoviská, prípadne pozície k jednotlivým bodom a materiálom prerokovávaným v orgánoch DUT.

5. MŠVVaŠ SR sa zaväzuje poskytovať univerzite potrebnú súčinnosť vrátane informácií získaných v partnerstve DUT, ktoré sú nevyhnutné pre vykonávanie aktivít univerzity v rámci partnerstva DUT.

6. Univerzita sa zaväzuje vykonávať aktivity v rozsahu, kvalite a v termínoch vyplývajúcich z prílohy prílohy č.1 "Description of the Action (Part B)“ ku grantovej dohode DUT, ročných pracovných programov DUT a podľa jednotlivých pracovných balíčkov.

7. Univerzita sa bude aktívne zapájať do Transition Pathways partnerstva DUT vrátane účasti na zasadnutí ich riadiacich komisií a podskupín.

8. Riadiaca komisia Transition Pathway sa zameriava na prípravu stratégií a implementáciu aktivít pre jednotlivé Transition Pathways. Jej ulohou je spolupodieľať sa na vypracovaní a implementácii programov, strategických orientácií a zaistiť ich finančnú podporu v rámci výziev partnerstva DUT. Jej úlohou je definovanie tém pre výzvy, komunikácia a mobilizácia národných komunít s cieľom zapojiť ich do aktivít DUT a propagácia výziev DUT.

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Refundácia oprávnených nákladov

1. Na základe tejto zmluvy univerzita vykazuje prostredníctvom MŠVVaŠ SR oprávnené náklady, ktoré jej pri realizácii aktivít v zmysle prílohy č.1 "Description of the Action (Part B)“ ku grantovej dohode DUT v rámci projektu DUT vzniknú a tieto sú následne MŠVVaŠ SR univerzite refundované z finančných prostriedkov poskytnutých MŠVVaŠ SR ako príjemcovi z projektu DUT.

2. Oprávnené náklady univerzity v podobe personálnych nákladov sú prílohou č.1 "Description of the Action (Part B)“ ku grantovej dohode DUT stanovené vo výške najviac 62 340 EUR po dobu trvania partnerstva DUT, pričom sú súčasťou rozpočtu MŠVVaŠ SR ako príjemcu v rámci projektu DUT.

3. MŠVVaŠ SR ako príjemca v projekte DUT koordinátora projektu požiada o refundáciu oprávnených nákladov univerzity zo spoločných prostriedkov projektu partnerstva DUT, pričom náklady sú preplácané vo výške podľa rozhodnutia konzorcia pre jednotlivé aktivity. Náklady sú refundované vo výške 100% skutočných oprávnených nákladov vynaložených na aktivity v prospech celého partnerstva DUT a 30% v ostatných prípadoch.

4. Náklady súvisiace s implementáciou partnerstva DUT podľa ods. 2 a 3 tohto článku sú zo strany konzorcia refundované každoročne vždy najneskôr v 1. štvrťroku nasledujúceho roku na základe oprávnených nákladov vykázaných za predošlý rok.

5. Zmluvné strany sa zaväzujú vykonávať všetky potrebné aktivity a úkony, aby bolo možné refundovať oprávnené náklady univerzity z finančných prostriedkov poskytnutých v rámci projektu DUT, v zmysle administratívnych a finančných pravidiel programu Horizont Európa. Najmä sa zaväzujú vykonávať všetky nevyhnutné kroky na to, aby oprávnené náklady, ktoré v súvislosti s implementáciou aktivít v rámci projektu DUT vzniknú počas trvania projektu a do doby podania finálnej správy EK boli vyúčtované a podporené výkazmi o čase odpracovanom na projekte DUT v súlade s pravidlami programu Horizont Európa najmä modelovej grantovej dohody a podľa ustanovení grantovej dohody DUT a prílohy č.1 "Description of the Action (Part B)“ ku grantovej dohode DUT.

6. MŠVVaŠ SR ako príjemca v projekte DUT je povinné v zmysle pravidiel Horizontu Európa vykazovať skutočné oprávnené náklady, ktorí vznikli v rámci riešenia projektu voči EK a koordinátorovi projektu.

7. MŠVVaŠ SR ako príjemca v projekte DUT je povinné informovať každoročne v stanovených termínoch koordinátora projektu o vzniknutých skutočných oprávnených nákladoch a požadovanom objeme refundácie týchto nákladov. Termíny stanovuje koordinátor projektu v nadväznosti na požiadavku EK a podľa grantovej a konzorciálnej dohody DUT.

8. MŠVVaŠ SR ako príjemca v projekte DUT je povinné vykazovať voči EK skutočné oprávnené náklady akceptované koordinátorom projektu a rozdelené podľa kategórií nákladov v nasledujúcich lehotách stanovených podľa grantovej a konzorciálnej dohody DUT.

Reportovacie obdobie

1. mesiac	24. mesiac	Priebežná správa	Do 60 dní od uplynutia obdobia
25. mesiac	36. mesiac	Priebežná správa	Do 60 dní od uplynutia obdobia
37. mesiac	60. mesiac	Priebežná správa	Do 60 dní od uplynutia obdobia
61. mesiac	84. mesiac	Priebežná správa	Do 60 dní od uplynutia obdobia

9. Univerzita poskytuje súčinnosť MŠVVaŠ SR pri príprave výkazov skutočných oprávnených nákladov podľa ods. 6, 7 a 8 tohto článku.

10. Univerzita poskytuje súčinnosť MŠVVaŠ SR pri príprave záverečnej správy po skončení projektu v rozsahu a v termíne podľa pokynu EK alebo koordinátora projektu.

11. Univerzita sa najmä zaväzuje každomesačne predkladať výkazy preukazujúce čas odpracovaný svojimi zamestnancami zapojenými do implementácie projektu DUT podľa čl. 3 ods. 5 zmluvy. Výkaz podpísaný zamestnancom a priamym nadriadeným zamestnanca univerzita doručí MŠVVaŠ SR vždy najneskôr do 15. dňa nasledujúceho mesiaca.

12. Oprávnené náklady univerzity preukázané podľa ods, 11 tohto článku jej MŠVVaŠ SR refunduje z fin. prostriedkov poskytnutých z projektu DUT a to bez zbytočného odkladu po ich akceptovaní zo strany koordinátora projektu a EK v zmysle ods. 7 a 8 tohto článku.

13. Oprávnené náklady univerzity je možné z prostriedkov projektu DUT prostredníctvom MŠVVaŠ SR univerzite refundovať na základe tejto zmluvy za obdobie od začiatku realizácie projektu DUT, t. j. od 1.1.2022 do 31.12.2028

14. MŠVVaŠ SR prevedie univerzite prostriedky výlučne bezhotovostne na samostatný bankový účet vytvorený za účelom vedenia fin. prostriedkov refundovaných v rámci partnerstva DUT. O poukázaní refundovaných finančných prostriedkov zašle MŠVVaŠ SR univerzite písomné oznámenie.

15. Bankový účet oznámi univerzita MŠVVaŠ SR písomne do 30 dní od uzavretia tejto zmluvy.

16. Univerzita sa zaväzuje poskytovať plnú súčinnosť v prípade interných auditov a kontrol zo strany koordinátora projektu DUT ako aj kontrol realizovaných EK a koordinátorom v súlade s pravidlami vyplývajúcimi z grantovej dohody DUT najmä jej čl. 25 vrátane strpenia kontrol na mieste a sprístupnenia priestorov a povinnosti poskytovať bezodkladne doklady požadované kontrolným subjektom.

17. MŠVVaŠ SR je oprávnené vykonať pre svoje potreby finančnú kontrolu podľa zákona č. 357/2015 Z. z. o finančnej kontrole a audite a o zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov v znení neskorších predpisov počas trvania zmluvy ako aj po jej ukončení, a to aj v prípade odstúpenia od zmluvy.

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Záverečné ustanovenia

1. Táto zmluva sa uzatvára na dobu určitú, a to odo dňa nadobudnutia platnosti zmluvy do

31. decembra 2029.

2. Zmluvné strany sa dohodli, že táto zmluva zaniká:

a. uplynutím doby, na ktorú je uzavretá;

b. písomnou dohodou zmluvných strán;

c. odstúpením zmluvnej strany od zmluvy;

d. ukončením realizácie partnerstva DUT na základe zániku platnosti grantovej dohody k projektu DUT (Grant Agreement termination), alebo ukončením účasti MŠVVaŠ SR ako príjemcu v partnerstve DUT.

3. Odstúpenie od zmluvy je potrebné druhej zmluvnej strane oznámiť písomne. Odstúpením od zmluvy zmluva zaniká doručením písomného prejavu o odstúpení od zmluvy druhej zmluvnej strane na adresu uvedenú v záhlaví tejto zmluvy.

4. Zmluvná strana je oprávnená od zmluvy odstúpiť v prípade, ak si druhá strana opakovane a preukázateľne neplní povinnosti podľa tejto zmluvy, najmä:

a) včas a v požadovanom rozsahu nevykonáva aktivity v rámci implementácie partnerstva podľa grantovej dohody DUT a jednotlivých pracovných balíčkov,

b) opakovane neposkytne druhej strane súčinnosť potrebnú pre implementáciu partnerstva DUT,

c) opakovane sa nezúčastňuje na zasadnutiach určených Transition Pathways,

d) neposkytuje druhej zmluvnej strane súčinnosť pri vykazovaní plnenia aktivít partnerstva a iných požadovaných dokladov v zmysle grantovej dohody DUT a pravidiel účasti v programe Horizont Európa.

5. Zmluvné strany sa dohodli, že meniť a dopĺňať ustanovenia tejto zmluvy možno len po vzájomnej dohode formou písomných dodatkov podpísaných obidvoma zmluvnými stranami, ktoré sa stávajú neoddeliteľnou súčasťou tejto zmluvy.

6. V ostatných prípadoch, výslovne neupravených touto zmluvou, platia príslušné ustanovenia grantovej dohody DUT, konzorciálnej dohody DUT a príslušné platné ustanovenia zákona č. 513/1991 Zb. Obchodný zákonník a zákona č. 523/2004 Z .z. o rozpočtových pravidlách verejnej správy a o zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov v znení neskorších predpisov a ďalších právnych predpisov

7. Táto zmluva je vyhotovená v štyroch originálnych rovnopisoch, z ktorých MŠVVaŠ SR dostane dva a univerzita dva rovnopisy.

8. Zmluvné strany po prečítaní tejto zmluvy vyhlasujú, že jej obsahu porozumeli a tento zodpovedá skutočnému prejavu ich vôle a na znak vzájomného súhlasu ju podpisujú.

9. Táto zmluva nadobúda platnosť dňom jej podpísania zmluvnými stranami a účinnosť dňom nasledujúcim po dni jej zverejnenia v Centrálnom registri zmlúv.

Príloha zmluvy:

• Príloha č. 1: Príloha č.1 časť B „Description of the Action (Part B)“ ku Grantovej dohode Európskej komisie č. 000000000 - Driving Urban Trasitions.

V Bratislave, dňa................ V Bratislave, dňa............................

Ministerstvo školstva, vedy, výskumu Ekonomická univerzita v Bratislave a športu SR

Xxx. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx prof. Xxx. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx, PhD

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European Partnership Driving Urban Transitions ‌

DUT

DESCRIPTION OF THE ACTION (PART B)

v1.3 of the GA

HISTORY OF CHANGES
VERSION	DATE	CHANGE
1.1	04.02.2022	Proposal Part B included with changes as requested. Deletions/revision: - Title - List of participants - 3.1.1 List of work packages - 3.1.2 Work package description - 3.1.3 List of Deliverables - 3.1.4 List of Milestones - 3.1.5 Critical risks for implementation - 3.1.6 Summary of staff efforts Additions: - Table of Contents - Section 4 “Ethics Self-Assessment” - Histroy of Changes Other changes: - Numbering of participants in Table 3.1.3 Financial support to third parties adjusted according to the numbers allocated in the Funding&Tenders Portal
1.2	01.04.2022	- List of Abbreviation updated - Transnational calls changed to joint calls - Footnotes changed into endnotes - Name of TP CURE - Circular Urban Regenerative Economies changed to CUE - Circular Urban Economies - Abbreviations updated and editing changes - Graphic of governance structre updated - Comments from PO updated - Explanation on commitments in Section 1 included - Inkind contribution by third party to VLO reduced to 7 PM - Beneficiary IQS deleted; budget shifted mainly to FECyT and to a small extent to FFG - New beneficiary MiSE included - Changed role of FIO: is Beneficiary instead of Affiliated Entity - Changed role of ANRT/BF/MEnv: from Beneficiary to Associated Partner - New partner XXX added as is Affiliated Entity to NKFIH - List of contributions to third parties updated - Budget tables updated - XXXXX chart updated - List of partners added - List of content added
1.3	04.05.2022	- Answers to ESR comments added - Minor text changes and revision and budget tables updated - Associated Partner no. 53 changed from BUNDESMINISTERIUM FUER WIRTSCHAFT UND TECHNOLOGIE (PIC: 999834776)) to BUNDESMINISTERIUM FUER WIRTSCHAFT UND ENERGIE (PIC: 917557533), (same organisation) - Third party VITO deleted from Section 3.2, Budget table 3.1j: ‘In-kind contributions’ provided by third parties at own request; - Explanation on WP leads (FECyT / AEI and ViC/SWEA) added. 3.3.1, after Table 12 - Added: Table 13: Summary of the DUT consortium partners expertise/infrastructure. - Dissemination level of Deliverables revised and adjusted - WP2: Reflection Panel changed to City Panel - -Amounts in Budget table 3.1i updated

COO answers to ESR comments

1- Excellence

However, the proposal does not explicitly present how DUT will go beyond JPI UE, in terms of shifting the

approach for activities and partnership structure. This is a minor shortcoming

Text added in Section 1.1 Partnership vision

The objectives are clearly linked to a timeframe. The proposal covers the first seven (2022-2028) of the 12 years DUT Partnership planned duration. The specific elements of Cofund activities are well in place and clearly formulated. However, the intervention logic beyond the timeframe 2022-2028 is not indicated. This is a minor

shortcoming.

The intervention logic was developed for the entire DUT partnership duration (2022 -2032), not only for this grant agreement (that includes 2 calls).

Dates were included along the text, in particular in Section 1.1 One paragraph was added in Section 1 to cover the comment.

Three very relevant TPs are envisaged, with ambitious aims being set for each, in a crescendo along the 12 years’ Partnership timeframe. The three ambitious GOs are further operationalised through 5 SOs. The objectives are clearly formulated and realistically achievable, pertinent and well aligned with the call topic and policy areas in focus. However, some of the key SOs lack some detail to be fully convincing. For instance, SO3.2 lacks detail on the clarity of connections and linkages to proposed knowledge hubs and external stakeholders. This is a minor

shortcoming.

This was due to lack of space to add extra tables and references at proposal stage. With the newly introduced IPs in Section 2, it becomes very difficult to avoid overlaps between Section 1 and 2 and decide where to put what (just as a general comment on the new template).

Table 1 added in Section 1.1.2: Overview of DUT objectives and related KPIs (details in Section 2.1, Fig 3 and Table 5).

The objectives are linked to measurable key performance indicators (KPIs) along the three TPs. However, the proposal does not fully elaborate on its detailed monitoring framework for the R&I activities funded under the

joint calls. This is a shortcoming.

Although the existing online monitoring tool (already used for several of the JPI UE calls and to

be further developed for the DUT calls), as well as the overall JPI UE monitoring framework were mentioned in the proposal, the text was updated in Section 2.1: DUT indicators and KPIs.

Links and collaboration opportunities with other topical relevant Partnerships and EU funded projects, contributions to EU missions and agendas, are very well considered and planned. DUT aims to implement a pan- European R&I programme to answer stakeholder's voiced needs, through the three envisaged TPs, co-designed in an integrated manner with urban actors, and implemented in joint calls.

However, it is not fully clear if the cofunded joint calls text will require that funded projects should address all 3 outlined thematic areas in an interrelated way and cross-sectoral approach. It is also not elaborated with great detail how the claimed cross-sectoral approach will be dealt with in the dialogues with EC Services. The aspects

jointly represent a minor shortcoming.

Joint calls with other partnerships are not the main focus for cooperation. This was made clear the aim for additional activities, instead of more calls. The call topic development will involve other partnerships in order to consider links and synergies right from the start.

The relevant topics with each neighbouring partnership are indicated in the table.

The proposal states that DUT Partnership will follow JPI UE’s model of in-kind contributions and membership fees, and foresees a strategy process and related measures to be adopted to prepare and ensure sustainability for phasing-out from the European Framework Programme funding. However, it does not sufficiently elaborate on the expectation that members will continue without the EU cofunding at the end of the Partnership. This is a

shortcoming.

This grant agreement covers the first 7 years of the Partnership duration and it is still too early to

plant the partners commitment beyond the Partnership duration.

Progress beyond the state-of-the-art (SoA) in key areas of TPs is referenced to the DUT Roadmap Draft, in terms

of R&I agenda, however no further elaboration is presented in the proposal. This is a minor shortcoming.

Content-wise the future strategy will certainly build upon the concrete results the DUT projects and the strategic development of the TPs. However, regarding the exit strategy the discussion is

not only about the content, but also about general commitments and a strategic interest to continue the cooperation.

However, feedback loop from local key actions, such as Urban Living Labs to national networks (e.g. research

organisations) across Europe, is not elaborated in great detail. This is a minor shortcoming.

Text added in Section 1.2.2: Benefits from coordination of national/regional R&I activities and

level of ambition

DUT identifies and describes well relevant national or international R&I activities, whose results will feed into the project, and how links will be established. Innovative national programmes and long-standing international bilateral or multilateral collaborations of some partners (e.g., with India, China, Brazil, Belmont Forum) are also well planned to be leveraged upon and taken further through the project. However, it is less clear which concrete results of relevant national networks and projects will be integrated, or how exactly they will be considered to the

DUT Partnership. This is a minor shortcoming.

Adjustment made in Section 1.2.3 Results from national and international activities feeding into

DUT

However, the proposal does not sufficiently substantiate how the full potential of social sciences and humanities (SSH) and citizen engagement will be harnessed for innovative, cross-sectoral, and inclusive governance, and policy and decision-making. It is unclear how SSH is incorporated or how citizen science is promoted in the

proposed actions. This is a shortcoming.

Text added in Section 1.2.1: Overall methodology of the DUT Partnership

However, the proposal lacks some detail on the description of national requirements regarding open access. This

is a minor shortcoming.

This relates mainly to research data management (see above). In addition, funding partners may have even stricter rules regarding open science and are over-fulfilling the EC requirements.

However, there is no such list and so far there was no effect on the consortia.

2- Impact

Whilst taking a wide view and range of actions towards achieving Positive Energy Districts, the proposal does not demonstrate an explicit focus on nurturing a competitive and sustainable European battery value chain, nor

explain how this would be ensured by its wider approach. This is a shortcoming.

Text updated in Section 2.1 DUT pathways towards impact

Possible barriers to the achievement of expected outcomes and impacts are well identified and a number of convincing measures to address them are planned. However, the proposal does not adequately consider the potential barrier of availability and uptake of upskilling and reskilling programmes for end-users/workers that need to implement the new technologies and solutions for carbon-neutral and sustainable cities. There is also insufficient focus on engagement of education and training stakeholders, to ensure that emerging solutions can be

swiftly and effectively implemented. This is a minor shortcoming.

No, it is not planned to start reskilling of workers but rather mobilise local actors to co-design future solutions and approaches. When following an integrated approach for urban transitions, we are planning for e.g. trainings on ULLs (WP6). Given the nature of the consortium, no educational

training as such is planned, as this would require different set-up and different partners.

The proposal summarises in a comprehensive way the Partnership’s pathways to impact and indicators considered to monitor progress and impact success. It describes in a convincing manner the likely scale and significance of project results’ contributions to the expected outcomes. Moreover, it presents a clear set of indicators suitable for effective monitoring of progress towards impact. However, there is a lack of clarity on the timeline to achieve some of the set targets, whilst others are expected only well beyond the end of the project (post 2028). This is a minor shortcoming.

The identified KPIs represent a draft set of indicators for the European level monitoring of partnerships. These indicators, as well as additional ones for more detailed DUT monitoring will

be reflected and specified in the monitoring process.

A thorough consideration of representativeness of participants and organisations involved in the project activities and events, including gender, nationality and city size, as well as representation of speakers from academia, civil society, public authorities, European networks etc., will be ensured by the proposed project. However, the

communication plan only indirectly describes its specific considerations with regards to citizens. Citizens’ engagement is filtered through civil society organisations, such as NGOs. This is a minor shortcoming.

Citizen engagement will take place mainly within the funded projects, in particular through the

ULLs as well as the AGORA Dialogues.

3- Implementation

However, the proposal lacks detail to justify the timing of some tasks of key WPs, such as, WP3, WP4, W7, WP8. For example, Task 3.5 finishes in year 4 Q13, but it is unclear how this will feed into Task 3.2 & Task 3.3, finishing in year 3 Q10. The proposal does not sufficiently substantiate the logic and inter-linkages of some key WPs. Namely, WP2 is mainly conceptual, with no feedback loop to potential demonstrators from future funded calls or other projects. The implementation of calls on national level is not fully elaborated, and linkages amongst WP3 tasks are not fully developed. Also, it is not fully elaborated how WP6 ideas/findings (e.g., Urban Living Labs implementation and development) feedback into T4.2 or T7.1. Also, despite their main expected outcomes, Tasks

2.5 and 3.6 have no deliverables foreseen. Jointly, these aspects represent a shortcoming.

Timing updated in the updated Annex 1 (AWP1)

The first Annual Work Plan (Annex 1) is well detailed, however, WP4 lacks some detail for year 1. For instance, its description lacks concrete and specific details on aspects related to the DUT partnership monitoring framework

and implementation plan. This is a minor shortcoming.

Text updated in Section 2.1 related to DUT indicators and KPIs

However, the risk on adequate participation of partners not requesting funding is not fully considered. It is also mentioned that the risk of low funding commitment is mitigated through the set of recommendations made in JPI

UE, however it is not clearly specified how this risk will be actually addressed and mitigated. These aspects represent a minor shortcoming.

Additional risk on the associated partners added in Part A. A set of recommendations has been developed which will be applied for each call. The reference to this report has been given and the details of process are laid out in the CA.

However, the proposal does not elaborate in great detail the reason for the efforts considered among the different WPs in year 1 (for instance, WP3 (74,5 PM) in relation to WP5 (54,4 PM),for which covered activities in year 1

are normally less important). This is a minor shortcoming.

Costs for year 1 have been calculated according to the planned tasks and activities. Regarding the planned resources for WP5 this includes the set-up of the DUT communication infrastructure and its main channels, including the development of the corporate design, the DUT website, the organisation of the DUT launch events. In addition, first communication measures are prepared to start promoting and positioning the DUT and its TPs, which shall build upon available results

from JPI UE ERA-NETs and joint calls, in order to be able to offer concrete content and examples along the DUT TPs and going beyond the ERA-NET activities.

However, DUT does not sufficiently justify the extra required budget (4.6 million Euro) over the estimated amount

of EUR 37M. This is a shortcoming.

The extra-required budget is a result of the overall costs that have been planned for DUT. The EC

contribution corresponds to 30% of the total costs. It is thus justified by the fact that DUT partners are planning investments that result (in theory) in a higher EC contribution.

The 14% of total effort allocation for project management is considered on the high side, given the Partnership being a continuation of the very well established collaboration under JPI UE and significant efforts for Partnership work and results monitoring, expansion, legacy & sustainability planning are included in other WPs. Also, the proposal does not clearly specify which other investments or framework conditions are envisaged/relevant for its deployment. This is a minor shortcoming.

The project management costs (WP1) correspond to 3% of the total project budget. Overall management costs of the project and the calls (WP1+3+4) correspond to about 4.5%. All other costs of WPs 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 cannot be counted as project management as they refer to strategic

programme management and are required to enhance the impact.

There is insufficient clarity on the way the Partnership plans to allocate a total of EUR 430M over the period 2022-2032 (including the EUR 140 M of this proposal). Although the proposal envisages annual calls for R&I projects to be funded, two calls are committed under this proposal and insufficient explanation is provided on how

possible additional national/regional funding for joint calls will be considered. This is a shortcoming.

Commitment included in this GA is dedicated to the first 2 calls and was extrapolated to the overall 7 calls to be launched between 2022 and 2033 Figures will be revised at 2nd GA.

Explanation added in Section 1 Excellence.

However, partner XXX plans to be supported by a university (in-kind seconded staff) in the implementation of joint call related activities, without fully explaining any measures to to mitigate the risk of, perception of, or de

facto conflict of interest of such university applying for a joint call. This is a minor shortcoming.

All third parties will sign and submit a No Conflict of Interest statement, confirming the non-

involvement in WP3 and WP4 and, therefore, have not influence on call setup, implementation, evaluation and monitoring.

However, no explicit information is provided on the expertise in the areas of open science practices and gender

dimension by the partners. This is a minor shortcoming.

Text updated in Section 3.2.1 DUT consortium

The extent of end-users involvement and engagement in the governing structure is however not explained in great

detail. This is a minor shortcoming.

Actually we do not have ‘end-users’, this is clearly a terminology from more tech-oriented approaches. In our case it is the wider group of urban stakeholders – municipalities, local initiatives, residents, etc. These are considered in the governance model through the DUT AGORA, which is the DUT stakeholder platform. And high emphasis is given to this stakeholder

engagement in DUT (starting from IP2 to WP6).

However, partner MPO has 0.5 PM allocated for WP5 in Part B, whilst in Annex 1 is said to be involved in WP2

and WP8. This is a minor shortcoming.

Corrected in Part A.

Some budget figures are not adequately justified. For instance, EUR 130,000 budgeted - ‘subcontracting’ for further implementation and maintenance of the Online Monitoring System (T4.2) and EUR 250,000 - ‘other services’ (support of DUT monitoring-WP4), as well as EUR 200,000 - “other services” for “support for strategy process” (T2.1) are not fully explained. The need and reasonability of budgeting EUR 30,000 for corporate design subcontracting, is also not explained. Moreover, under other direct costs, there is no clear justification provided on the budget for website and social media tools. Under T7.2, subcontracting costs are not fully justified, such as EUR 500,000 (FZJ-PtJ), and FFG budget for other good, works and services. It is also not fully justified why some

partners are not requesting funding. These aspects represent a shortcoming.

Figures have been revised and duly justified in Tables of section 3 of Part B

However, the proposal lacks detail on if and how industry stakeholders incentives will be ensured. This is a minor

shortcoming.

Text updated Section 3.2.1.

However, DUT does not fully explain the EU-added value of including international partners. This is a minor

shortcoming.

Text updated Section 3.2.1.

The partnership governance and management are robust, adequate and effective, providing a solid framework to achieve the defined objectives and vision. Consortium bodies are well in place, however, the proposal lacks detail on decision rules, in particular at the “Decisions on country level”. This is a minor shortcoming.

The existing governance model of JPI UE and the PED Programme is to be adapted to fit the needs of the DUT Partnership, e.g. to anticipate new requirements due to the 3 TPs and take up some

learnings from JPI UE.

The Partnership will be established in a transparent way, with no unjustified restriction in participation. However,

on non-discriminatory access to information, it is indicated that “only certain” projects will provide policy briefs, with no further justification or explanation. This is a minor shortcoming.

No, there is no intention to have only some projects providing policy briefs. It is rather anticipating that not all projects may focus on these particular outcomes.

List of Partners 9

List of Abbreviations 11

1 EXCELLENCE 14

1.1. Objectives and ambition of the DUT Partnership 14

1.1.1 Joining forces in the DUT Transition Pathways (TPs) 15

1.1.2 The DUT Partnership objectives 17

1.1.3 Links and collaborations with other Partnerships and EU programmes 19

1.1.4 Exit strategy and measures for phasing-out from the Framework Programme funding 21

1.2. Methodology 22

1.2.1 Overall methodology of the DUT Partnership 22

1.2.2 Benefits from coordination of national/regional R&I activities and level of ambition 23

1.2.3 Results from national and international activities feeding into DUT 23

1.2.4 Gender dimension 24

1.2.5 Open science practices 25

1.2.6 Research data management and FAIR data principle 26

1.2.7 "Do no harm” principle 27

2 IMPACT 27

2.1 DUT pathways towards impact 27

2.1.1 Significance and scale of the DUT Partnership 29

2.1.2 Potential barriers and enabling factors for achieving the impacts 32

2.1.3 Contribution to trigger transformational changes 32

2.1.4 DUT indicators and KPIs 33

2.1.5 Intervention logic of the DUT Partnership 37

2.2 Measures to maximise impact – communication, dissemination and exploitation 38

2.2.1 Dissemination, exploitation and communication strategy 38

2.2.2 Target groups 39

2.2.3 Formats and channels 40

2.2.4 Strategy for the management of intellectual property 42

2.3 Summary: Key elements of the impact section 43

3 QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF THE IMPLEMENTATION 45

3.1 Work plan and resources 45

3.2 Budget tables and justifications 49

3.3 Capacity of participants and consortium as a whole 62

3.3.1 DUT consortium 62

3.3.2 DUT governance structure and management 89

3.3.3 DUT process towards Annual Work Plans (AWPs) 92

4 ETHICS SELF-ASSESSMENT 93

5 REFERENCES 93

List of Partners

No.	Legal Name	Short Name	Role	Country
Beneficiaries and Affiliated Entities
1	BUNDESMINISTERIUM FUER KLIMASCHUTZ, UMWELT, ENERGIE, MOBILITAET, INNOVATION UND TECHNOLOGIE	BMK	CO	AT
2	OSTERREICHISCHE FORSCHUNGSFORDERUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH	FFG	BEN	AT
3	AUSTRIATECH - GESELLSCHAFT DES BUNDES FUR TECHNOLOGIEPOLITISCHE MASSNAHMEN GMBH	A-Tech	BEN	AT
4	FONDS VOOR WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK- VLAANDEREN	FWO	BEN	BE
5	VLAAMSE GEWEST	VLO	BEN	BE
6	INNOVIRIS	Innoviris	BEN	BE
7	FONDS DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE- FNRS	F.R.S.-FNRS	BEN	BE
8	BULGARIAN NATIONAL SCIENCE FUND	BNSF	BEN	BG
9	COMISSAO DE COORDENACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO REGIONAL DO NORTE	CCDR-N	BEN	PT
10	TECHNOLOGICKA AGENTURA CESKE REPUBLIKY	TACR	BEN	CZ
11	MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY AND TRADE	MPO	BEN	CZ
12	INNOVATIONSFONDEN	IFD	BEN	DK
13	MAJANDUS JA KOMMUNIKATSIOONIMINISTEERIUM	MKM	BEN	EE
14	SIHTASUTUS EESTI TEADUSAGENTUUR	ETAg	BEN	EE
15	TYÖ- JA ELINKEINOMINISTERIÖ	MEE	BEN	FI
16	AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE	ANR	BEN	FR
17	FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JULICH GMBH	FZJ-PtJ	BEN	DE
18	DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV	DLR	BEN	DE
19	MINISTERO DELLO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO	MiSE	BEN	IT
20	GENIKI GRAMMATIA EREVNAS KAI KAINOTOMIAS	GSRI	BEN	EL
21	ETHNIKO KENTRO EREVNAS KAI TECHNOLOGIKIS ANAPTYXIS	CERTH	BEN	EL
22	NEMZETI KUTATASI FEJLESZTESI ES INNOVACIOS HIVATAL	NKFIH	BEN	HU
22.1	EXPRESS INNOVATION AGENCY	XIA	AE	HU
23	RANNSOKNAMIDSTOD ISLANDS	Rannis	BEN	IS
24	MINISTERO DELL'UNIVERSITÀ E DELLA RICERCA	MUR	BEN	IT
25	AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE	ENEA	BEN	IT
26	LATVIJAS ZINATNES PADOME	LCS	BEN	LV
27	LIETUVOS MOKSLO TARYBA	LMT	BEN	LT
28	MINISTERIE VAN BINNENLANDSE ZAKEN EN KONINKRIJKSRELATIES	MINBZK	BEN	NL
29	NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK	NWO	BEN	NL
30	NORGES FORSKNINGSRAD	RCN	BEN	NO
31	NARODOWE CENTRUM BADAN I ROZWOJU	NCBR	BEN	PL
32	DIRECAO-GERAL DE ENERGIA E GEOLOGIA	DGEG	BEN	PT
33	FUNDACAO PARA A CIENCIA E A TECNOLOGIA	FCT	BEN	PT

34	DIRECAO GERAL DO TERRITORIO	DGT	BEN	PT
35	UNITATEA EXECUTIVA PENTRU FINANTAREA INVATAMANTULUI SUPERIOR A CERCETARII DEZVOLTARII SI INOVARII	UEFISCDI	BEN	RO
36	MINISTERSTVO SKOLSTVA VEDY VYSKUMU A SPORTU SR	MINEDU	BEN	SK
37	JAVNA AGENCIJA ZA RAZISKOVALNO DEJAVNOST REPUBLIKE SLOVENIJE	ARRS	BEN	SI
38	AGENCIA ESTATAL DE INVESTIGACION	AEI	BEN	ES
38.1	FUNDACION ESPANOLA PARA LA CIENCIAY LA TECNOLOGIA, F.S.P., FECYT	FECyT	AE	ES
39	CENTRO PARA EL DESARROLLO TECNOLOGICO INDUSTRIAL.	CDTI	BEN	ES
40	VERKET FOR INNOVATIONSSYSTEM	VINNOVA	BEN	SE
41	FORSKNINGSRÅDET FÖR MILJÖ, AREELLA NÄRINGAR OCH SAMHÄLLSBYGGANDE	FORMAS	BEN	SE
42	STATENS ENERGIMYNDIGHET	SWEA	BEN	SE
42.1	KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOEGSKOLAN	ViC	AE	SE
43	TURKIYE BILIMSEL VE TEKNOLOJIK ARASTIRMA KURUMU	TUBITAK	BEN	TR
44	AGENCE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT ET DE LAMAITRISE DE L'ENERGIE	ADEME	BEN	FR
45	COMISSAO DE COORDENACAO E DESENVOLVIMENTO REGIONAL DO CENTRO	CCDR-C	BEN	PT
46	FONDS INNOVEREN EN ONDERNEMEN	FIO	BEN	BE
ASSOCIATED PARTNERS
47	KOMMUNAL- OG MODERNISERINGSDEPARTEMENTET	KMD	AP	NO
48	FEDERAL DEPARTMENT FOR ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT, ENERGY AND COMMUNICATIONS	DETEC	AP	CH
49	SCHWEIZERISCHE AGENTUR FUR INNOVATIONSFORDERUNG	INNOSUISSE	AP	CH
50	SCHWEIZERISCHER NATIONALFONDS ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTLICHEN FORSCHUNG	SNSF	AP	CH
51	UNITED KINGDOM RESEARCH AND INNOVATION	UKRI	AP	UK
52	BUNDESMINISTERIUM FUER BILDUNG UND FORSCHUNG	BMBF	AP	DE
53	BUNDESMINISTERIUM FUER WIRTSCHAFT UND ENERGIE	BMWe	AP	DE
54	MINISTERE DE LA TRANSITION ECOLOGIQUE	MTE	AP	FR
55	MINISTERE DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT SUPERIEUR, DE LA RECHERCHE ET DE L INNOVATION	MESRI	AP	FR
56	CENTRE D ETUDES ET D EXPERTISE SUR LES RISQUES L ENVIRONNEMENT LA MOBILITE ET L AMENAGEMENT	Cerema	AP	FR
57	ASSOCIATION NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE	ANRT	AP	FR
58	MINISTERUL XXXXXXXXXX INOVARII SI DIGITALIZARII	MCID	AP	RO
59	ANCT	ANCT	AP	FR
60	MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT	MEnv	AP	FI
61	BUSINESS FINLAND OY	BF	AP	FI

List of Abbreviations

15minC	15-Minute City
2ZERO	Co-Programmed Partnership Towards Zero Emission Road Transport
AC	Associated Country
AWP1	First Annual Wok Programme
AWP	Annual Work Programme
BOOST	Coordination and Support Action BOOST
Built4People	Co-programmed Partnership People-centric sustainable built environment
C, E & D	Communication, Exploitation & Dissemination
CA	Consortium agreement
CCAM	Cooperative, connected and automated mobility
CEMR	Council of European Municipalities and Regions
CEO	Chief Executive Officer
CET	Clean Energy Transitions
CIVITAS	CIVITAS Initiative – Sustainable and smart mobility for all
CMS	Call Management System
CNC	Climate-neutral cities
COP21	21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
COST	European Cooperation in Science and Technology
CRM	Community Relationship Management
CS	Call Secretariat
CSA	Coordination and Support Action
CSI	City Science Initiative
CUE	Circular Urban Economies
D	Deliverable
DG REGIO	Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy
DGUM	Directors General Meeting on Urban Matters
DMP	Data Management Plan
DORA	Declaration on Research Assessment
DUT	Driving Urban Transition(s)
EC	European Commission
ECTP	European Construction Technology Platform
EERA	European Energy Research Alliance
EGD	European Green Deal
EIGE	European Institute for Gender Equality
EIT	European Institute of Innovation & Technology
ENSCC	ERA-NET Cofund Smart Cities and Communities
ENUTC	ERA-NET Urban Transformation Capacities
EO	Expected Outcome
ER	Expected Result
ERA	European Research Agenda
ERA-NET	Networking the European Research Area
ERDF	European Regional Development Fund
ERRIN	European Regions Research and Innovation Network
ESIF	European structural and investment fund
ESPON	European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion
ESS&EM	Electronic Submission System and Evaluation Module

EU	European Union
EUI	European University Institute
EXPAND	Project with Grant Agreement number: 726744
EXAPAND II	Project Widening participation of countries and stakeholders in JPI Urban Europe through capacity building in urban policy, funding and research: GA number 857160
FAIR	Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable
GA	grant agreement
GB	Governing Board
GDP	Gross domestic product
GDPR	General Data Protection Regulation
GEP	Gender Equality Plan
GO	General Objective
ICLEI	Local Governments for Sustainability
HE	Horizon Europe
IP	Impact pathway
ISOCARP	International Society of City and Regional Planners
IT	Information technology
JPI	Joint Programming Initiative
JPI UE	Joint Programme Initiative Urban Europe
JRC	Joint Research Centre
LL	Living Lab
M	Month
METRE	European Environment Agency
MS	Member State
Mls	Milestone
NBS	Nature-Based Solutions
NEB	New European Bauhaus
NGA	GA between the funding bodies and the funded entities
OMS	Online Project Monitoring System
OO	Operational Objective
PCA	CA between the funded entities in the funded project
PED	Positive Energy Districts
POMG	Programme Owners and Managers Group
R&I	research & innovation
SCGP	Smart City Guidance Package
SDG	Sustainable Development Goal
SG	Steering Group
SO	Specific Objective
SRIA	Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
Ti.ii	Task i.ii
ToR	Terms of Reference
TP	Transition Pathway
TP-SG	Transition Pathway Steering Group
TRIP	Transformative Research and Innovation Programme
UAEU	Urban Agenda for the EU
UDG	Urban Development Group
UERA	Urban Europe Research Alliance
ULL	Urban Living Lab
ULT	Urban Lunch Talk
UN	United Nations

UNESCO	United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
URBACT	Urban Innovative Actions
Water4All	Water4All - Water Security for the Planet Partnership
WP	Work package

1 Excellence

The Co-Funded European Partnership Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable Future ( DUT Partnership) project responds to the Horizon Europe (HE)call HORIZON-CL5-2021-D2-01-16: Co-Funded Partnership: Driving Urban Transitions to a sustainable future (DUT) i.

The DUT Partnership builds upon and steps up the ambition and efforts of the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe (JPI UE)ii. With its partners from 27 countries, it does not only facilitate the cooperation across nearly all European countries, but creates a platform for connecting and aligning European and national strategies and activities. By developing and implementing a transformative research and innovation (R&I) programme with comprehensive programme management activities to enhance impact and build capacities to act, a significant contribution to the European Climate-neutral Cities (CNC) missioniii, the European Green Dealiv (EGD) and the Urban Agenda for the European Unionv (UAEU) is aimed at.

This grant agreement (GA) covers seven years (2022-2028) of the DUT Partnership planned duration of 12 years (2022-2033). The commitments included in this GA are dedicated to the first 2 calls and are based on the indicative commitments given by countries for the entire DUT duration (2022-2033) in the early preparatory phase.

The planned additional activities to strenghten impact, capacity building, international cooperation and policy relations under this GA are designed to also serve future calls and projects. Thus, the investments in the strategic programme management are taken with a long-term perspective beyond the duration of this GA.This GA covers the period 2022-2027 of the DUT Partnership and focuses on the implementation of at least two joint calls and all call-related activities of WPs 3, 4 and 5 and implementing the activities of WPs 2, 6, 7 and 8 as well as parts of WP4 and 5 as far as they are programme related for the years 01/2022 to 12/2024. Subsequent joint calls and associated activities beyond this period will be covered under successive GAs following respective future calls under Horizon Europe. ´

This GA focuses on the implementation of at least two joint calls and all call-related activities of work packages (WPs) 3, 4 and 5 and implementing the activities of work packages (WPs) 2, 6, 7 and 8, as well as parts of WP4 and 5, as far as they are programme-related for the years 01/2022 to 12/2024. Subsequent joint calls and associated activities beyond this period will be covered by future calls under Horizon Europe.

The commitments included in this GA are dedicated to the first 2 calls to be launched by the Partnership and are based on the indicative commitments given by countries for the entire DUT duration (2022-2033) in the early preparatory phase. These figures might be subject of revision in the future.

1.1. Objectives and ambition of the Partnership

Cities and urban areas are the nexus for the transformations required, if the EU is to achieve targets of the EGD and to fulfil commitments related to the United Nations (UN)’s Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN-Habitat's New Urban Agenda, the UAEU, the Paris Agreement and support the New European Bauhausvi (NEB) movement. The urban nexus challenge is primarily characterised by the need for integrated approaches and to translate R&I results to actions. Furthermore, institutional fragmentation, non -inclusive and non-participatory governance structures still too often lead to a lack of shared vision and direction regarding urban transformations, incoherence in policies and strategies, uncoordinated planning and decision -making, ineffective measures and inefficient use of resources.

The wide variety of urban forms of life and how our societal cohesion to a large part has to be sustained by attractive and just urban built environments are crucial concerns: over 70 % of the EU population lives and works in urban areas, and nearly a quarter (22.5 %) of the European Union (EU) population is still at risk of poverty and/or marginalisation.vii Although urban areas generate about 85 % of European GDP, within city administrative boundaries they also account for 60-80 % of the EU energy use and face common challenges in, for instance, congestion, shortage of adequate housing, air pollution, declining infrastructures, and migratory pressures.viii Acknowledging European urban areas’ footprints on liveability and resource use in remote places and cities, as well as climate change effects, addressing urban transformations are crucial on a planetary scale.

Hence, our future relies on tackling complex grand challenges here and now, many of which must be addressed within cities and by urban communities. The DUT Partnership aims at addressing these challenges with an

integrated approach to co-create with and for decision makers and actors in municipalities, companies and civil society the levers and means to act and enable the necessary urban transformations, and strengthening joint efforts towards sustainable urban development by bringing knowledge and evidence into action. In this first GA, the DUT Partnership pools resources from 50 participating research programme owners / managers in 27 countries into a joint programme implemented through a series of joint calls for R&I projects and a comprehensive management and implementation plan promoting coordination, networking, training, mobilisation, demonstration and dissemination. These joint activities represent a pan-European critical mass to invest in challenge-driven R&I to underpin urban sustainability transitions.

The Partnership vision:

The DUT Partnership steps up the game to tackle urban challenges. We enable local authorities and municipalities, business and citizens to translate global strategies into local action. We develop the skills and tools to make urban change happen and boost the urgently needed urban transformations.

This bold vision (2022-2033) is not intended merely to support sustainable urbanisation, but to foster transformations to regenerative urban areas and urbanism, which supports and replenishes, as far as possible, the planetary resources they consume and enhance the various ecosystems they are part of and live by. ix

The DUT Partnership goes beyond JPI UEii at different levels, including topicwise, procedures and strategic programme management activities. Topicwise, DUT follows a new approach, through the definition of three key thematic priorities (Positive Energy Districts (PED), 15 minutes city (15minC) and Circular Urban Economies (CUE), hereafter called Transition Pathways –TPs) that will be addressed in parallel, each of which has a clear mission to achieve. While the PED programme has been started in JPI UE, the TPs on 15minC and CUE are newly established. The joint calls will be continued with adapted procedures according to the mission- oriented approach in DUT. Regarding the portfolio of strategic programme management activities, DUT will build upon the experiences, formats, processes and infrastructures established by JPI UE and widen the measures, in order to enhance the policy and societal impact of the DUT investments. Such new activities include the development of a strategy for valorisation of research results, strengthened efforts for target group specific empowerment, as well as dissemination and exploitation. The mechanism of European partnerships also offers new opportunities for cross-partnership cooperation and the new legal framwork for Cohesion Funds will be investigated to strengthen cooperation with European regions. In addition, existing or piloted formats will be advanced, such as the knowledge hub concept, the AGORA, the Urban Living Lab (ULL) approach, etc.

1.1.1 Joining forces in the DUT Transition Pathways (TPs)

The DUT Partnership builds upon the achievements of the JPI UE created in 2010 to address the global urban challenges, with the ambition to develop a European R&I hub on urban matters and create European solutions by means of coordinated research. JPI UE, so far, has implemented eleven transnational joint calls (out of which five were in cooperation with the European Commission (EC), two in international cooperation). With 111 funded projectsx, bringing together 765 beneficiaries from 35 countries throughout Europe and the world, it has contracted EUR 116.8 million. It has published strategic research and innovation agendas (SRIAs), in co- creation with urban stakeholders and R&I actors, which have effected a transnational European urban programming interfacexi. In addition, active AGORA community and city network groups have been createdxii. While DUT will build upon all these achievements, the Partnership will, at the same time, allow to enhance the ambition, to strongly increase the portfolio of projects and set up new measures towards capacity building, urban policy support, demonstration and mainstreaming of results (see Section 2.1).

The DUT TPs to drive the realisation of the vision and the ambition will be embedded in the doughnut economy modelxiii, which aims to ensure that our societal needs are met within the planetary boundaries (see Fig. 1). This approach is adopted by an increasing number of city authorities to guide their planning and decision -making, and it anchors the DUT TPs in this wider regenerative approach to sustainable development. Crucial in the approach is a broad co-creative innovation and co-design in both urban sociotechnical systems and experimental approaches on a community and neighbourhood level. Hence, a strong experimental ethos is fostered by the DUT Partnership across urban levels. Activities, projects, and initiatives to make districts thrive and keep within the limits of planetary boundaries and human liveability will also be crucial for cohesion and trust building through co-creation and the open innovation required with a strong public engagement component. In order to

support cities along their specific strategies, the Partnership focuses on three critical urban sectors (and their interrelationships), which are laid out in the DUT Roadmapxiv:

Fig. 1: DUT contribution to transform towards doughnut economy principles.

The Positive Energy Districts (PED) TP aims at supporting urban energy transitions through innovative solutions for the planning, large-scale implementation and replication of PEDs with the mission to have at least 100 PED by 2025. Furthermore, it will contribute to the Mission on Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by building a portfolio of PED-related solutions towards climate-neutrality. PEDs build on the optimisation of energy efficiency, (local) energy generation from renewables and energy flexibility and will be synergistically connected to the energy system in Europe. By applying an integrative approach including technology, spatial, regulatory, legal, financial, environmental, social and economic perspectives, PEDs raise the quality of life in cities, contribute to achieving the COP21 targets and the EGD objectives and enhance European capacities and knowledge to become a global role model.

The 15-Minute City (15minC) TP fosters sustainable urban mobility transitions by improving accessibility and connectivity, starting from the neighbourhood-level. The concept of the 15-Minute City is based on the idea that city dwellers should be able to cover the vast majority of their daily needs within a 15-minute radius, by walking and cycling, while connecting to further districts and travelling larger distances by other forms of sustainable transport. The 15-Minute City seeks to establish integrated and mixed-used neighbourhoods at large, which are key to reduce GHG-emissions in the transport and logistic sector and adapt urban environments to the challenges of climate change. Thus, the 15minC wants to account for the diversity of contemporary lifestyles and boost climate-neutral, liveable and inclusive cities. The 15minC mission is to facilitate analysis, elaboration, experimenting and testing of innovations for 15-minute cities in co-creative settings, bringing these together in a 15-minute City innovation portfolio of 50+ experiences and practices, recognizing different urban contexts and focusing on transferability.

The Circular Urban Economies (CUE) Transition Pathway aims to support the planning and design of inclusive urban spaces sustained by circular resource flows. The CUE TP operates from the assumption that such spaces can only emerge if transformative interventions understand and address urban areas as simultaneously characterized by unsustainable consumption and socio-economic inequality. Thus, it encourages a multitude of tools and approaches that combine efforts towards increased urban resource efficiency and liveability. By collecting examples and grouping them according to topic and context, the CUE TP will provide a portfolio of 50+ solutions that can contribute to the circular transformation of urban areas until the end of the Partnership. For the Partnership to maximize impact for the European and global policies, these three TPs are to be programmed in an integrated manner and with a firm commitment to urban, regional and city authority capacity building in terms of ambitious policy-making and implementation. Evidence will be created with and for city administrations, municipalities, business and society, aiming at all kinds of innovation and capacity building needed to transform our

neighbourhoods and urban areas. The Partnership will offer a framework for innovation, demonstration and preparing larger-scale translation of solutions and approaches into local urban settings.

1.1.2 The DUT Partnership objectives

Below and in Tables 1 and 2 the main objectives (GO) and related specific objectives (SOs) are summarised. More details are given in the intervention logic and Section 2.1.

GO1 – Increase the effectiveness of urban solutions, approaches and processes. From the point of city administrations, integrated approaches and planning is seen as one of the key elements to accelerate urban transformations and sustainable urban development. This entails capacity building to connect the dots between silos and to address, in particular, those issues that are created by conflicting or competing strategies, interests or policies. The R&I issues to be programmed in calls and actions will be selected to ensure that various perspectives across disciplines, sectors or stakeholder needs are considered and connected. Conditions for such projects will be specified in a way to give room for the required collaboration across sectors and types of actors.

Hence the following SOs:

SO1.1 – Strengthen cooperation of national and regional programme owners and funders and jointly realise a challenge-driven R&I programme for urban transitions.

SO1.2 – Identify and address key areas of the DUT TPs (PED, 15minC, CUE).

GO2 – Shape a multi-actor innovation ecosystem on urban transitions. The urban innovation ecosystem should offer different ways of interaction between science, policy, business and society to ensure that research efforts better meet the needs of urban actors and society. It will support not only the mobilisation of urban actors to join research projects, but to ensure that R&I projects are co-designed and challenges are identified with stakeholders, so that the specification of R&I needs are genuinely relevant for the problem owners. To this end, formats are needed to strengthen the role of urban actors in R&I projects and offer settings to engage in all phases of innovation projects. To enable the innovation ecosystem, the following SO is:

SO2.1 – Mobilise city authorities, businesses, societal actors, and researchers for urban R&I and xxxxxx co- design of approaches and solutions.

GO3 – Strengthen benefits for neighbourhoods and urban areas across Europe. The DUT Partnership aims to bring results, good practice and evidence to urban actors across Europe and support dissemination, exploitation, uptake, and replication of solutions and approaches. With this, a contribution to a strong European Research Area (ERA) is expected, creating benefits for city authorities and municipalities of cities of different sizes and situations. Furthermore, the Partnership will be positioned as the European hub for international cooperation on sustainable urbanisation. SOs to this end are:

SO3.1 – Create synergies and coordinate with other partnerships and European and global initiatives to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of investments.

SO3.2 – Make R&I results widely available and support replication and mainstreaming of solutions.

Table 1: Overview of DUT objectives and related Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) (details in Section 2.1, Fig 3 and Table 5).

General Objectives (GO)	Specific Objectives (SO)	Operational Objectives (OO)	Related KPIs
GO1: Implement a transformative R&I programme focusing on integrated approaches for energy, mobility and	SO1.1: Strengthen cooperation of national and regional programme owners and funders and jointly realise a challenge- driven R&I programme for urban transitions	OO1.1: Establish a transnational governance of DUT including measures for widening participation and international cooperation	• Number and type of activities and achievements towards accomplishing the missions of the TPs

circularity transitions	SO1.2: Identify and address key areas of the DUT TPs PED, 15minC, CUE	OO1.2: Develop and implement strategic measures to reach the missions of the three transition pathways – PED, 15minC, CUE	• Allocated and contracted annual budget for joint calls • Number of countries and national and regional partners engaged in the DUT governance • Number of transdisciplinary projects and number of type of beneficiaries reached
		OO1.3: implement joint calls for trans- and interdisciplinary R&I projects and improve call instruments
GO2: Shape a multi- stakeholder innovation eco- system to drive urban transitions	SO2.1: Mobilise city authorities, business, societal actors, and researchers for urban R&I and foster co-design of approaches and solutions	OO2.1: Foster and support Urban Living Labs as places to co-design in each of the DUT urbanTPs	• Multi-stakeholder community by share of stakeholders • Number of stakeholders mobilised across all formats and their geographical spread • Number of Urban Living Labs (ULLs) and their geographical distribution • Number and type of formats to mobilize stakeholders
		OO2.2: Facilitate multi- stakeholder dialogues and empower city authorities, societal actors and business to engage in transdisciplinary R&I
GO3 Contribute to the achievement of the EGD and the European CNC Mission and thus creating wider societal and economic benefit	SO3.1 Enhance efficiency and effectiveness of investments across European and global intitatives to strengthen impact towards SDGs and EGD	OO3.1 Establish strategic cooperation and create synergies with relevant Horizon Europe partnerships, city networks and other international initiatives	• Number of projects and activities contributing to the SDGs, EGD • Number and type of joint activities with other European Partnerships, other R&I initiatives, and international networks • Number of interactions with wider community • Number and type of activities and material for evidence-based policy making and mainstreaming of solutions
	SO3.2 Make R&I results widely available and support replication and mainstreaming of solutions	OO3.2 Create synthesis and make evidence available for policy making
		OO3.3 Develop replication and valorisation schemes that allow to experience the look and feel of new solutions

Table 2: DUT specific objectives (SOs), the expected impact and corresponding work packages (WPs).

Specific Objective no	Impact	Work Package
SO1.1	A transnational governance and a joint transformative R&I programme	WP1, WP2,
	with innovative instruments that strengthens critical mass of Member	WP3, WP4,
	States/Associated Countries (MSs/ACs) to address key issues for urban	WP5
	transitions towards climate neutrality.
SO1.2	Coordinated strategic actions across MSs/ACs and a portfolio of co-funded projects that deliver evidence to achieve the DUT TPs’ missions for the needed energy, mobility and circularity transitions.	WP2, WP3
SO2.1	Empowerment of and support to urban stakeholders to engage in urban R&I and strengthen relevance of R&I for local strategies.	WP5, WP6

SO3.1	Synergies across European Partnerships and initiatives and alignment towards the European CNC Mission and the EGD.	WP8
SO3.2	Availability and accessibility of evidence for urban actors to strengthen local action and achieve accelerated urban transitions.	WP5, WP7

1.1.3 Links and collaborations with other Partnerships and EU programmes

Fig. 2: Indication of interfaces to various sectoral fields, offering potential for cooperation with other partnerships, networks or projects.

With its focus to address urban transitions in an integrative way, considering particularly the needs of the energy, mobility and circular economy sectors, DUT Partnership offers interfaces to various other Partnerships. Tackling issues, such as the transformation of the regional and urban energy systems, the built environment, sustainable urban mobility systems, urban agriculture, water in the city or urban biodiversity, across Partnerships enhances the capacities to address these challenges and connect different R&I communities on European level. It also aims to make use and build upon specific sectoral developments and achievements and join forces on urban related aspects and implementation (see Fig. 2). Besides the general interfaces to various sectoral networks, a set of Partnerships are seen as highly relevant for DUT and its ambition. Throughout the development process of DUT regular exchanges have taken place, in particular with other co-funded Partnerships, to identify possible modes of interaction and cooperation. Table 3 summarizes the state-of-play and indicates common priorities and potential joint actions. These will be further explored, as soon as the respective Partnership has operationally started. Some activities are already included in the work plan (see Section 3.1) and activities of the first Annual Work Programme (AWP1) (see Exhibit 1, D2.1).

The collaboration with EC services focusing on neighbouring and/or sectoral issues will be organised through the DUT main contact point. It is planned to establish procedures in T2.4 and consider it as part of the governance structure (see p50, Section 3.2).

Table 3: Overview of related Partnerships and potential interfaces and modes of interaction.

Partnership Potential interfaces

Possible modes of interaction

Clean Energy The CET focuses on key challenges in energy Transitions technology and system innovation and create (CET) evidence for smart and integrated energy co-funded systems. DUT targets the utilization of such

technologies and (sub-)systems for the

transformation of neighbourhoods. This

shapes an interface, when it comes to the application of energy technologies and

Regular exchange on a strategic level to mutually consider latest developments and align actions.

Joint workshops to connect the communities, also with regard to the impact energy technologies or energy transitions have on other sectors and areas, in particular mobility and circular economy (see T8.3).

systems into the urban context, as well as the role regional energy systems play in the provision of renewable energies for urban areas.

Even joint calls may be considered to address selected topics to integrate issues related to energy technologies and systems into the urban context and

particularly in the context of PEDs.

People- The transformation of our built environment centric and the housing stock is a key element to sustainable achieve sustainability targets. The built construction and energy management of environment buildings play a crucial role in the energy (Built4People) transitions. On the other hand, new technologies, materials and solutions for

co- construction contribute to improving programmed circularity and resource efficiency. In this context, there is a high potential to take up,

validate and integrate R&I results of the

Built4People Partnership in DUT.

Contribution of building and construction related R&I results, in form of new materials, technologies, processes and services to the DUT priorities. Such results could be taken up in DUT joint calls (PED TP), to validate and test their potential from an integrated urban development perspective, by considering aspects of systems integration, public sector innovation, behavioural aspects, etc. Identify stakeholder needs and raising R&I demands from DUT towards the Built4People Partnership. Facilitate joint stakeholder dialogues.

Rescuing Knowledge-based planning and management biodiversity of land-use and natural resources is needed to to safeguard tackle risks of reduced biodiversity and life on earth negative effects for human well-being, (Biodiversa+) economy and social equity. The utilisation of

co-funded NBS for sustainable urban development is a strategic priority for both Partnerships.

Biodiversa+ plans to launch a Flagship Programme on biodiversity in urban areas,

which connects well to the DUT priority on Circular Urban Regenerative Economies.

Connect DUT actors to the Biodiversa+ Flagship Programme on urban development and jointly mobilise the communities to cooperate (see T8.3).

Joint workshops and outreach on urban biodiversity and adjacent topics, like NBS in cities, greening of cities and circular economy to promote deployment and uptake of NBS. Expert workshops to elaborate common strategic priorities.

Safe and Urban collaboration, engagement and Sustainable infrastructure are vital for the development of Food System the food system of the future. In this sense, co-funded cities and municipalities must take part in

ensuring consumer trust, safety, quality and

traceability. Approaches to foster urban agriculture can be tackled together to combine the experiences and requirements from the urban perspective and the agriculture sector.

Interest has been raised in the ULL approach of JPI UE, which offers opportunities for cooperation with DUT and connect efforts and projects.

It was indicated that DUT will be invited to annual stakeholder workshops organised by EC Unit Bioeconomy & Food Systems to explore common thematic interests and contribute to the co-design process of the Food Systems Partnership.

Towards zero The electrification of vehicles is one of the emission road enablers for sustainable mobility. While transport 2ZERO is expected to accelerate the (2ZERO) development of zero tailpipe emission co- vehicles, DUT offers a framework to

programmed investigate the impact and potentials in the

15minC context. This could comprise aspects

related to impacts on land-use, new services,

behaviour and societal impacts, impacts for circular economy and energy systems, etc.

New vehicles, systemic solutions, infrastructure requirements and services are relevant to the DUT 15minC priority. Such results could be taken up in DUT joint calls to validate and test their potential. Identify stakeholder needs and raise R&I demands from the DUT perspective towards the 2ZERO Partnership. Facilitate joint discussions with all stakeholder groups to foster dissemination and take-

up of new solutions, products and services across Europe.

Cooperative, CCAM addresses sustainable mobility in Connected particular in urban and peri-urban areas. While and the CCAM partnership focuses on large-scale Automated demonstration pilots, incl. the development of Mobility automated vehicles, communication systems (CCAM) and services as well as related infrastructure, co- DUT aims to exploit the potential of such new

programmed developments from an integrated perspective.

This could include the analysis and validation of new mobility models, considering

implications for business, governance and citizens.

Contribution of R&I results created by CCAM projects, in form of new technologies, infrastructure requirements and services to the DUT 15minC pathway. Such results could be taken up in DUT joint calls to validate and test their potential from an integrated urban development perspective. Identification of local stakeholder needs and raise R&I demands from the DUT perspective towards the CCAM partnership. Connection of projects and facilitation of multi-stakeholder dialogues.

EIT Urban Mobility (EIT UM)	EIT Urban Mobility provides an environment to bring innovation into implementation, strengthen entrepreneurship for the needed transition of the urban mobility system. Bringing both Partnerships together allows to connect R&I with entrepreneurship and start- ups. Like DUT, EIT UM puts cities’ needs centre stage and aims to enhance the transformative power and capacity of urban administration.	Joining forces on mobilising city authorities and urban stakeholders for urban transitions, This could include an exchange on the development of Living Lab (LL) approaches and ensure complementary support for LLs to enhance the impact. In order to strengthen the economic impact of the R&I results created in DUT, interfaces to the business creation programme of the EIT UM could be established (link to T6.2).
Water	Urbanization has a major impact on entire	Joining efforts in a foresight exercise to investigate
Security for	water	systems,	including	groundwater	the consequences of the food production – water –
the Planet	systems. Blue infrastructure is a key element	urbanisation nexus, in order to develop sustainable
(Water4All)	to be considered for sustainable urban	pathways in the related fields and work towards a
	development. In the context of circular	common vision (see T8.3). Joint workshops and other
co-funded	economy, the efficient use of water resources	community	building	measures	to	take	mutual
	plays an essential role. The utilisation of new	advantage of R&I results and connect projects
	water technologies, processes and services in	addressing issues related to water and blue
	municipalities will contribute to urban	infrastructure in the urban context.
	transformation and the shift towards circular
	economies.

Other links may be explored, notably Partnerships on other modes of transport, such as rail, aviation or waterborne, as well as with digital Partnerships (e.g., on smart networks and services). In addition, relationships have been established to other parts of the EU Programmes, in particular the European CNC Mission and the UA EU. Regarding the CNC mission, DUT is committed to contribute to achieving 100 climate-neutral cities by 2030 and to create an innovation ecosystem that allows thousands of cities to follow. The DUT consortium is convinced that only through aligned efforts on European, national and regional level the CNC mission can be achieved. With its thematic priorities and the portfolio of measures towards capacity building and mainstreaming evidence DUT intends to complement the EC implementation plan. This ambition is also underlined by the fact that 14 DUT countries have joined forces to submit a proposal for the HORIZON-MISS-2021-CIT-01-01xv, to establish strong links between DUT and the city mission and prepare support structures with a longer -term perspective. The proposal is under evaluation, however the possible requirement to establish interfaces with this project is already considered in the DUT work plan (T2.5).

JPI UE is also a permanent observer to the UAEU and thus, engaged in the related European policy processes, e.g., participating in meetings of the Urban Development Group and Director General for Urban Matters (UDG/DGUM) meetings, contributed to the development of the New Leipzig Charta, which was published in 2019, under the German Presidencyxvi or cooperating with the UAEU Partnershipsxvii. The ongoing process to co-develop the implementation plan, its priorities and structures is followed closely. Opportunities to cooperate with and contribute to the UAEU priorities of the upcoming Presidencies of the Council of the EU will be assessed and joint actions implemented whenever possible (T8.1).

1.1.4 Exit strategy and measures for phasing-out from the Framework Programme funding

Since 2010, JPI UE has established and advanced its governance model, management procedures and support infrastructures. This has provided the strategic and operational framework to develop two joint SRIAS and implement, among other measures, a series of calls and ERA-NETsxviii. In this regard, the DUT Partnership represents the next multi-annual programme of JPI UE that is replacing the ERA-NET Co-fund scheme and will be implemented in cooperation with the EC.

In order to ensure sustainability, the core governance structure and management capacities of JPI UE were mainly financed through in-kind contributions of the participating countriesxix. Besides secondment of staff, a membership fee was introduced for maintaining communication infrastructure and implementing programme management beyond and across the different calls. This model of in-kind contributions will be continued throughout the DUT Partnership while the membership fee will be suspended until decided otherwise by the JPI UE governing board and by that allows to maintain JPI UE as the network of national and regional programme

owners and funders committed to invest in urban R&I. The new partners of the DUT consortium are invited to join and fully engage in this transnational network.

Towards the end of the DUT Partnership, the strategy process (T2.1) will focus on preparing the follow-up phase and assess opportunities to best exploit the legacy and ensure sustainability of DUT. Depending on the experiences and results achieved, the JPI UE model will be revisited and – if agreed by the partners – a strategy will be developed on how to continue the transnational cooperation and set-up a follow-up programme.

1.2. Methodology

1.2.1 Overall methodology of the DUT Partnership

In order to advance R&I programmes and instruments the DUT Partnership offers a platform for R&I programme owners and funders to pool resources together, jointly experiment with new formats and instruments to advance funding regimes towards challenge-driven R&I and learn from national and regional good practices.

A transition management methodology underpins the DUT approach to function as a European urban R&I platform serving the sustainability transition needs of cities and urban areas. With this methodology adapted to transnational R&I programming, DUT follows JPI UE’s approach and responds to questions on how to address the multiple and fragmented nature of urban transitions; how to enable and support the ‘ new normal’ of urban experimentation, including action and design based approaches; how to enable transformative approaches towards regenerative urbanismxx.

The DUT Partnership is to develop a European urban innovation ecosystem by a Transformative Research and Innovation Programme (TRIP; see Section 2.1) that operationalises a Transition Arena (TA), drawing on transition management insights and learnings. The TA is an approach to support the European urban innovation ecosystem and local urban contexts with orchestration, boundary spanning, and intermediation regarding urban challenges – specifically the three TPs prioritised in the DUT Partnership – through strategic (vision, policy and coordinating approaches to the complex societal challenge in the urban dimension), tactical (coordinating among sectors, strategies, interests, dilemmas), operational (linking strategic and tactical with everyday action in urban R&I, instrument development), and reflexive (monitoring, assessment, synthesis and conceptual development) programming activitiesxxi. The key elements of the DUT TA are already specified in the JPI UE SRIA 2.0xxii.

To develop the European urban innovation ecosystem and to achieve the objectives set out for the DUT Partnership, the underpinning methodology can be characterised by TA activities with mission-oriented thematic TPs. The TA approach is crucial, as it helps coordinate the ‘TRIP’ across co-creation and alignment activities among a broad range of actors and settings. The mission-oriented approach in the TPs is crucial since the progression/transformative potential in the thematic challenges and activities will depend on ‘ mindset alignment’ by urban actors (including R&I and communities of practice).

Building upon existing activities and experiences of MSs, municipalities and research communities, DUT will shape an urban innovation ecosystem for urban transformations. It will shape it around a set of key dilemma areas crucial to consider to substantially drive urban transformations identified in the JPI UE SRIA 2.0xxiii and the TPs. Following the model of transition arenas, such an arena has to include four functionalities – strategic, tactical, operational and reflexive onesxxiii.

The Partnership’s transdisciplinary approach (i.e., the generation of new knowledge co-created by collaborative groups of transition practitioners and mupltiple disciplines) is mainly set out by the urban innovation ecosystem, in the sense that the Partnership both operates by fusing research disciplines and across the ‘divide’ between academic and (applied) science and other types of practice contexts, as well as promoting such collaborations in the calls and activities planned. Expertise is ‘cross-bred’ through the focal lense of urban dilemmas, which enables an issue-oriented and challenge-driven exploration and collaborative movement across the TA – beyond academic research frontiers and debate to actively engage a broad range of urban actors.

DUT will continue the JPI UE practice of bringing together experts from all disciplines, including engineering, natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, architecture, planning, arts, etc. In particular the calls will request multi-disciplinary project consortia that are able to address the complexity of urban transitions and ensure an inclusion of social sciences right from the start in order to exploit the full potential for urban transitions. In addition, through the strong emphasis on ULLs and co-design all stakeholder groups shall be mobilised in projects, including local initiatives and residents. Based on the experience of JPI UE in fostering

an inter- and trans-disciplinary R&I community DUT will address and strengthen inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation not only in its calls, but support it also through its capacity building activities (WP6).

The DUT Partnership enables a systemic approach through the three TPs, even though they are designed as three mission-oriented sub-programmes. Their inter-relations and interplay with cross-sectoral issues, such as governance, digitisation, resilience, land-use, infrastructures and public spaces for sustainable, liveable, inclusive and resilient cities is articulated in that neighbourhoods cannot produce more energy than they consume without new mobility solutions and more circular use of resources. New mobility solutions necessitate innovative energy technology and design thinking. Sustainable energy systems and smart mobility solutions are mandatory, should cities obtain circularity.

1.2.2 Benefits from coordination of national/regional R&I activities and level of ambition

The SDGs illustrate that the main societal challenges are global ones and require actions on all levels. All countries are called for intensified and concerted actions in order to meet our ambitions and the climate and sustainability targetsxxiv. Europe has answered this requirement, among others, with the EGD, the development of European missions or the NEB movement. However, in order to achieve these goals these European level activities must be supported and mirrored by national and regional ones. Mechanisms are needed that mobilise all forces and help to take advantage of available competences, resources and knowledge. Success will depend on our ability to bring research results, like new technologies, approaches, tools, processes, policy recommendations, etc., into action in all our cities and form multi-stakeholder alliances for change. The DUT Partnership, building upon the various national and regional efforts, provides a framework to leverage these activities, join forces on common priorities to increase effectiveness and mutually take advance of good practice. It adds and complements the activities at the European level, as DUT aims to also reach out and mobilise smaller cities and towns through national and regional channels.

At the same time, it is important to take benefit from research results and local experiences beyond the project scale. Projects and ULLs are expected to create policy recommendations, solutions, case studies, etc. that need to be made available across partner countries and beyond. As part of the overall coordination efforts, national coordination mechanisms will be put in place (T1.3), involving local, regional and national actors (R&I actors, as well as policy-makers) that will strengthen exploitation of results on national level .

In addition, the transnational cooperation contributes to the advancement of national R&I regimes and programmes towards challenge-driven or mission-oriented ones. DUT, in this regard, is providing a framework for cooperation and experimentation, to jointly learn how to advance the national and regional R&I systems towards transformative ones and leverage investments in transformative R&I in key areas for urban transformations (see also Section 2.1). DUT also supports cooperation of programme owners and funders along the entire innovation cycle, from basic and applied science funds to innovation agencies. This creates the necessity to coordinate among national and regional partners and offers a setting to align and connect funding mechanisms on a national level.

With nearly all European MSs participating, cooperation between Widening and non-Widening countries is strongly supported, strengthening the anticipation of different urban situations on the one hand and learning from diverse strategies and solutions for meeting the urban challenges on the other hand. The engagement of national policy-makers and sectoral ministries allows further mutual exchange about strategy implementation, policy measures and their effectiveness.

With the defined thematic priorities and the three TPs, key areas for urban transformation are addressed that are of relevance for all cities and urban areas. Taking advantage of already available solutions across Europe will speed up transformations. Jointly developed new knowledge and evidence may enhance the trust in and robustness of solutions against the diversity of needs and urban situations. Independent of the specific level of maturity or phase in urban transformation of a country or a city, exchange and cooperation with likeminded partners is facilitated and helps to advance capacities and knowledge to implement strategies.

1.2.3 Results from national and international activities feeding into DUT

The consortium of countries and partners cooperating in DUT represents a great diversity, in terms of historical heritage and cultural, economic, political and regulatory contexts, representing a wide range of need for capacity building for urban transformation, but also different progress within the different areas of urban transformation.

With partners from 27 countries involved, XXX brings together the majority of public R&I investments in Europe. All countries participating have R&I programmes in place that support urban R&I. While some agencies or ministries run thematic R&I funding programmes addressing urban issues like energy transitions, urban mobility, urban resilience or new urban governance, others offer open R&I funding programmes for their research communities. A previous analysis, including a total of 64 funding programmes and 12 other related national activities in 17 JPI UE countries, showed a collective budget of almost 4 billion EURxxv. The competences, expertise and results created in these national and regional programmes build the basis for DUT, and create the national communities to cooperate in DUT. Furthermore, these national and regional R&I programmes and the related strategies provide important references and examples towards a joint transformative R&I programme. Several DUT partners have put innovative instruments in place that will inspire DUT activities, such as the Swedish Viable Cities Programmexxvi, the Austrian Fit-for-Mission Programmexxvii, the Dutch Gas- free Districts Programmexxviii, etc. Learning from these approaches and experiences will help to strengthen European capacities towards climate neutrality and establish a common ground for DUT and its priorities.

DUT very much builds upon and aims to foster local experimentation and co-creation. In this regard, already ongoing experiences and cases provide important references and additional investments. Efforts will be taken to connect these activities to DUT, as well as among each other. This also relates to the potential to mobilise regions and take use of Structural Funds, ESIF, ERDF. The opportunities to exploit this potential have still to be identified, as soon as the legal frameworks of the Structural Funds are set (see T8.2).

Finally, DUT partners have established international relationships and, in some cases, long-standing cooperation with third countries or multi-lateral initiatives. This includes the Mission Innovation programmexxix, global Urban Transition Mission of Mission Innovationxxx, the Belmont Forum or bilateral cooperation with international countries, like China, India, Brazil, etc. These relationships will support international outreach and positioning DUT, as an entry point for cooperation with Europexxxi (see T8.4).

The engagement and participation of a wider spectrum of national or regional actors (beyond R&I funding partners) in the DUT consortium is seen as highly important to strengthen the interlinkage of regional/national activities and DUT ones. It is expected that this cooperation will allow a better mobilisation of local actors , as well as a stronger consideration of national projects and results in the strategic development of DUT and its TPs. This will be also supported by the national coordination mechanisms (T1.3) that shall be implemented in all DUT countries in order to widen the outreach to and inclusion of a broad spectrum of local and regio nal actors, their experiences, strategies and projects.

1.2.4 Gender dimension

In the DUT Partnership, the gender dimension and gender equality will play a key role, in order to eliminate gender inequality and intersecting socioeconomic inequalities throughout the involved R&I programmes and the broader urban ecosystem, where the solutions for urban transition are created and implemented, including by addressing unconscious bias and systemic structural barriers. DUT Partnership, through the implementation of its SO and Operational Objectives (OOs) to become the European hub for international cooperation on sustainable urbanisation, will contribute to the promotion of the diversity and inclusiveness, both among its partners and the potential applicants to the joint calls. The urban innovation ecosystems approach that underpins the DUT offers an opportunity to support the general awareness of gender and power relations and diversity issues in contemporary urban development debates. Moreover, links between gender and innovation policies have been recently emphasized demonstrating positive correlations between countries’ score in the EU Innovation Scoreboardxxxii and in the EIGE Gender Equality Indexxxxiii, therefore DUT will contribute to the advancement of the gender equality principles towards its widening partners and collaborators (OO3.4), applicants and stakeholders.

DUT strongly supports principle 5 (Integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into urban planning) of the forthcoming Principles for Sustainable and Just Citiesxxxiv published by ICLEI. DUT’s actions (funded projects, AGORA Dialogues, events, workshops, trainings, etc.) will contribute to achieving the principle’s targets. DUT addresses the gender dimension policy according to three levels of action:

1. Gender Equality Plans (GEP)

All DUT partners have been strongly encouraged to take measures to establish a GEP, if they have not one in place already. This requirement will equally apply to the prospective participants in DUT joint calls and it will be made a participation criterion for the DUT calls. The planned Call Management System (CMS) used in DUT will include in its monitoring framework the compliance with this requirement.

2. Integration of the gender dimension in the DUT TPs and the DUT Roadmap

Research excellence and quality is boosted by considering gender and intersected differences, as research dimensions. Therefore, the DUT joint calls will foresee for its applicants that the gender diversity shapes end-users’ needs and approaches towards technologies to be taken into consideration when designing processes, tools and products. Already in the ERA-NET Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC), the applicants were specifically requested to address the gender dimension in their proposals, not only in relation to gender balance within consortia, but regarding how to address gender equality and diversity in the proposed projects. DUT will build upon these experiences and aims to strengthen diversity aspects in its R&I topics. The promotion and advancement of gender-related topics will be continued in the DUT Roadmapxxxv and the joint calls. This is expected to contribute to meet the objectives of Impact Pathway 3 (IP3) (see Section 2.1).

3. Gender balance in the DUT Partnership governance and in the funded projects

DUT will continue the efforts of JPI UE in terms of gender balance and strive to promote equal opportunities for participation of women, men and non-binary persons in the research consortia and in all programme activities (e.g., AGORA Strategic Dialogues, Urban Lunch Talks (ULTs), workshops, conferences, review panels). Gender balance will also be taken into account with great care, notably for the set -up of the different DUT management bodies (i.e., DUT Management, WP and Task Leaders, as well as in the Call Management). The gender issue has also been addressed in particular when distributing key roles among the consortium partners (Coordinator; WP and Task Leaders).

1.2.5 Open science practices

Open science practices will be applied for all activities and projects funded and promoted by the DUT Partnership. With respect to the joint calls, the DUT Partnership will strongly promote open science and communicate the open science principles to the research community, as well as to other stakeholder communities.

(a) At the level of the DUT Partnership: the open science principles will be taken into account through all activities and WPs of the DUT Partnership. The objective is to increase the use of best practices regarding Open Science principles within DUT community and to communicate on this approach and its benefits for its stakeholders. In line with the DUT communication and dissemination strategy, aiming to ensure a high - visibility of the DUT Partnership, and a strategic long-term consistency in DUT communication on a program level, a repository with search functions and filters to allow stakeholders to search for results with relevance to their specific interests will be developed in WP5. The repository will offer, either via link or storage on the website itself, a collection of academic publications, guidelines and other products produced by JPI UE and DUT projects, as well as material from strategic dialogues and synthesis (e.g., AGORA, Urban TPs symposiums, TPs’ knowledge hubs etc.).

(b) In the context of the joint calls launched by the DUT Partnership, the funded projects will have to comply with the open sciences rules regarding the open access to publications and research outputs dissemination , including research data management. However, the funding partners who have set additional national requirements regarding the open access issues will clarify their position further in the annexes of the joint call texts. The DUT Management supports EC’s Open Science principles and the innovative tools that facilitate researchers’ capacity to make better use of their project outcomes. These initiatives and tools are valuable as they give the projects autonomy to scale-up the impact of their research data without restrictions and in a very secure way. The most recent of these initiatives Open Research Europe and European Open Science Cloud with their well-designed and accessible interfaces will be promoted actively among the funded projects.

The DUT consortium is adhering to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), thus the DUT website will continue the already established JPI UE’s website, building on the existing urban knowledge and community, allowing anyone to search, find and re-use the most important outcomes of the DUT Partnership and its funded projects (e.g., synthesis reports and associated visuals, success stories, workshop reports, policy briefs, publications and other relevant documents).

The DUT Partnership will encourage its funded projects to provide open access to research outputs (e.g., publications, data, software, models, algorithms, and workflows), through deposition in trusted repositories.

DUT will also encourage among its funded projects open sharing of research data and digital outputs, to stimulate new approaches to the collection, reuse, analysis, validation and management of data and information, thus, increasing the transparency of the research process and robustness of the results. Furthermore, the evaluation committee for research proposals will be required to adhere to the DORA (Declaration on Research

Assessment) principles, with the aim to support the transfer of scientific knowledge to policy, practice and innovation.

Additional open science practices

In addition to the planned dissemination activities in WP5, the DUT Partnership will organise various capacity building activities that will contribute to the accessibility and openness of the project results and data (WP6). These capacity building activities are grounded in the engagement of the already existing community of the JPI UE and they will bring the funded project partners and end-users together, including national and regional city administrations and public authorities, to exchange ideas about the research data at first-hand. At the same time, DUT Partnership will continue the mobilisation of the stakeholders and expansion towards the widening countries, involving stakeholders in the AGORA Dialogues (see Section 2.2 and WP6).

1.2.6 Research data management and FAIR data principle

Within the DUT Partnership, various sorts of data are generated and the Partnership has a huge interest in disseminating the data, as openly as possible, to achieve its transformative objectives. The DUT Partnership will manage the digital research data generated in the action (‘data’) in line with the FAIR principles.

Compliance with FAIR data principles will become important once the funded projects start to produce research data. The responsibility for ensuring the FAIR data principles is first and foremost the task for the funded projects, whereas the DUT funding partners will support these principles by conducting additional tasks including monitoring, dissemination activities and training events for capacity building. As required, this section does not cover aspects related to personal data, which is to be protected rather than being made open.

The projects funded under the DUT joint calls will be obliged to sign a Consortium Agreement (CA) between the applicants to address intellectual property arrangements to avoid any conflict of interest caused by exploitation of project results (see Section 2.2.4 for further details on Intellectual Property management).

All projects funded by DUT joint calls will be obliged to produce their own Data Management Plans (DMP) at the early stages of their projects, where they will address in detail issues, such as, data provision, metadata vocabularies, data identifiers, software needs for data availability, licence clarifications etc. The DUT consortium promotes open and transparent sharing of data to stimulate new approaches to data collection, analysis and validation, as long as there are no legitimate reasons to constrain access, such as, risks to privacy of individuals that may arise from personally identifiable data. The DMP reasoning and requirements for project proposals will be thoroughly explained in the DUT joint call texts. The funding partners who have set additional national requirements regarding the open access issues will clarify their position further in the annexes of the joint call texts.

Furthermore, DUT will ensure open access to research data via a trusted repository, under the principle ‘as open as possible, as closed as necessary’.

Mainly there are two data categories that fall into management responsibility of DUT. These are:

• Personal data that is protected via General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will not be shared without the consent of the data subject. Beneficiaries of joint calls commit to comply to their respective national regulations. At the same time, Beneficiaries agree that their data is shared with funding partners of other countries in order to administrate the projects and their funding. Personal data is collected as required through several activities, including individuals’ registration for events organized by DUT and the personal data embedded in project proposals submitted to the online submission system. DUT partners (including partners from non-EU countries) will follow the GDPR rules and common standards to ensure that data collected during the implementation of the program activities and from funded projects are protected and secured.

• Research data that results from funded projects. Research data includes (cf. call text); “digital information created directly from research activities, such as experiments, analysis, surveys, measurements, instrumentation and observations” and “data resulting from automated or manual data reduction and analysis, including the inputs and outputs of simulations and models”. In principle, the research data resulting from funds made possible by taxpayers’ money are meant to be made as open and accessible as possible for maximising societal benefits.

In the DUT joint calls for proposals project data collection (demographic data, language, etc.) may be involved. Appropriate and secure use of material and data will be enabled according to the application of common standards, following the guidelines on data management in Horizon Europe and GDPR

regulations. The collected data will be protected and secured, in order to avoid a malevolent use of it. In the contracts with the consortia, the EC regulations as to informed consent, data protection and privacy will be incorporated.

The DUT Partnership will use a so-called customer relationship management tool for managing contact data of consortium members, stakeholders, partners from funded projects, etc. The managing body of the DUT Partnership will make sure that the tool used for this purpose will comply with the European GDPR and privacy rules and will restrict access to this tool to those persons involved, who need to have access to undertake their project tasks (communication, project management, coordination, call management, etc.).

The data related to project proposals for the joint calls will be processed in the Electronic Submission System and Evaluation Module (ESS&EM) that are being developed by UEFISCDI. The DUT funding partners will be granted access to the ESS&EM to read the information submitted by the applicants of the joint calls, as well as to mark the eligibility according to the national requirements. The details of protection of personal data in the ESS&EM are described under the relevant page of the UEFISCDI websitexxxvi. In addition, an Online Project Monitoring Tool (OMS) running at the level of the whole programme will be used. The OMS will be operated and maintained by FFG. The appropriate security of personal data is ensured by FFG with state-of-the-art security measures, which are constantly updated, including, but not limited to, password protection, encryption, firewalls and limited access to only the relevant persons. The data subject rights and other details of privacy policy related to the OMS are described in detail on the JPI UE websitexxxvii. The data subject rights and other details of privacy will comply with the European GDPR regulations. No ethical dilemmas are predicted to occur as a consequence of the DUT data management activities.

1.2.7 "Do no harm” principle

The R&I activities planned under the DUT Partnership will not support or carry out activities that make a significant harm to any of the six environmental objectives, as defined in Article 17 on the establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment (EU Taxonomy Regulationxxxviii).

2 Impact

While there is a strong agreement among all stakeholders about WHAT needs to be transformed and WHY (see Section 1.1), it is still far from clear HOW these urgently needed transformations should be realised. Hence, innovative ways on HOW this transformation can be pursued are needed if the efforts to and investments in change are not to be suboptimal. This also includes the advancement of R&I funding programmes and their instruments for challenge-driven, needs-based, mission-oriented R&I, as well as the establishment of innovation ecosystems that allow all stakeholder groups to engage and act. The DUT Partnership has the ambition to continue the efforts of JPI UE in this regard and provide and advance such an innovation ecosystem for urban transformations, as a European urban R&I platform towards regenerative, climate neutral, sustainable, inclusive urban areas: a transnational state-of-the-art and impact-oriented TRIP.

Moreover, the DUT Partnership is directly corresponding and contributing to the European ambitions towards climate-neutrality, expressed in the EGD, the European CNC Mission, the proposed package of Fit for 55 legislationsxxxix, etc. (see Table 3). By representing the joint R&I programme, DUT offers an entry point for aligning forces between the EC and countries and bringing Europe from 100 climate-neutral cities to thousands.

2.1 DUT pathways towards impact

The priorities of the DUT Partnership and its three TPs highly contribute to the EGD priorities in general, as well as the expected impact of the Destination Cross-sectoral solutions for the climate transition, namely to the “Clean and sustainable transition of the energy and transport sectors towards climate neutrality facilitated by innovative cross-cutting solutions”xl in particular. Moreover, the Partnership does not only address the themes indicated in the Destination, but anticipates the importance of integrated approaches to tackle sectoral silo effects and the necessity to establish multi-level science-policy-society cooperation to ensure relevant research and evidence-based policy making and planning standards in urban governance. As the Destination ambitions regarding a competitive and sustainable European battery value chain are covered by the CET Partnership, issues

such as the application of storage technologies for PEDs will be indirectly considered in the DUT programme, through the links and cooperation with the CET Partnership (see Table 3).

The particular impact and contribution of DUT is created by:

• Expanding the collaboration of countries and regions in a transnational and transformative R&I programme that creates a European-wide innovation ecosystem and addresses critical issues for urban transformations along the three DUT TPs.

• Building capacities for urban transformations in all stakeholder groups across Europe and beyond and fostering science-policy-society cooperation to enhance relevance of R&I.

• Developing and applying innovative formats to fully exploit the potential of R&I results, enhance the impact of the R&I investments and use scientific evidence to bring urban policies to actions.

Along these dimensions, the three DUT Impact Pathways (IPs) have been defined and are described briefly below, more details are given in Fig. 3, the DUT intervention logic. The particular DUT activities to create the expected outcome of the call are summarised in Table 4.

DUT Impact Pathway 1 (IP1): Facilitating sustainable, inclusive and climate-neutral urban areas through coordinated, transformative R&I

When it comes to urban transformations, municipalities, local and regional authorities strongly call for integrated approaches between TPs currently promoted by sectoral policies, that allow to overcome barriers or lock-ins created by sectoral interests, silo-thinking, or not aligning sectoral strategies and policies. This also requires a more integrated approach across urban-related R&I programmes, more flexible national and regional R&I frameworks and understanding what kind of solutions, tools, methods, products or services are needed by city authorities and other urban development actors (GO1). In order to advance R&I programmes and instruments, the DUT Partnership offers a platform for R&I programme owners and funders to pool resources together (SO1.1). In order to answer the call for integrated approaches and the particular needs voiced by stakeholders, the DUT programme focuses on three thematic priorities – the three TPs on PED, 15minC and CUE (SO1.2).

Accordingly, DUT will establish a transnational governance that strongly builds on the co-design of the programme, its strategy and the DUT Roadmap (OO1.1), implement joint calls for inter- and transdisciplinary projects (OO1.2) and experiment with new formats and instruments to advance funding regimes towards challenge-driven R&I and learn from national and regional good practices (OO1.3).

This allows us to implement a common strategy and funding programme in Europe and potentially beyond and create references for national and regional R&I systems (EO1.1). Through strategic measures implemented for each of the DUT TPs, the defined missions will be achieved (ER1.2). At least seven cofunded joint calls for R&I projects will allow us to address different stakeholder needs and create a comprehensive portfolio of transnational, inter- and transdisciplinary projects along the three IPs (ER1.3)xli. Finally, tested funding instruments will be available for challenge-driven R&I (ER1.4). This will result in increased capacities in national and regional R&I funding for climate neutrality (EO1.1). In addition, the project results will deliver new insights, knowledge and scientific evidence on critical issues to drive urban transitions (EO1.2).

Corresponding scientific and policy impact: Innovative R&I instruments, urban solutions and approaches corresponding to cities needs and contributing to achieving climate and sustainability goals.

DUT Impact Pathway 2 (IP2): Shaping a multi-stakeholder innovation eco-system to strengthen relevance of urban R&I

The substantial and fast transformation that is needed to achieve the European and global sustaina bility goals requires a mobilisation and alignment of all forces possible. Success will depend on the ability to build the necessary capacities in municipalities, investors, real estate, service and infrastructure providers, wider policy- making, civil society, etc. (GO2). The DUT Partnership will contribute to this capacity building, through a set of measures that will help to empower, in particular, civil society actors, local initiatives and city administration (SO2.1). ULLs will be fostered in the joint calls and supported as places for co-design (OO2.1). Multi- stakeholder dialogues will be established and dedicated formats to empower societal actors and innovators to engage in research and innovation (OO2.2). As the DUT priorities are developed in co-design processes with interested stakeholders, it is expected that the calls topics align well with urban policy and, thus, raise the interest of local urban actors to engage in the funded projects. Through the specific co-design formats (ER2.2), ULLs offered through the funded projects (ER2.1), and target-group specific empowerment (ER2.3), urban actors will

be able to, not only engage in the development of solutions, but also, get better prepared for translating and implementing such results in daily business (EO2.1).

Corresponding scientific and societal impact: Co-created solutions and approaches with high-relevance for city authorities and urban stakeholders and, therefore, higher probability for implementation and take-up.

DUT Impact Pathway 3 (IP3): Bringing knowledge to action and support the European CNC Mission implementation

On a national and European level, a plurality of R&I projects has created knowledge, methods, processes, technologies, data, etc. However, many of these results are not accessible for policy-makers or urban actors and, thus, limit the chances of uptake and mainstreaming of innovative concepts and solutions. In order to speed up urban transformations towards the EGD and the European CNC mission, and provide targeted support for urban actors, innovative ways of making these research results accessible and of practical use for policy and society are needed (GO3). The DUT Partnership will therefore, take efforts to enhance efficiency and effectiveness of R&I investments across initiatives (SO3.1) and will invest in making research results widely available and support mainstreaming of solutions and approaches (SO3.2). This will be achieved by establishing strategic cooperation with other urban-related Partnerships and Networks (OO3.1), creating policy-oriented synthesis and materials for national, European and international policy-makers and actors (OO3.2) and offer channels and formats to disseminate, valorise, demonstrate and replicate the created results (OO3.3). Coordinated and joint actions with other European Partnerships and international networks will take place whenever possible (ER3.1). Urban public administration, businesses, as well as urban actors at large, will benefit from accessible and available knowledge and evidence (ER3.3) and can take advantage of good practice, guidelines, references and opportunities to learn from concrete urban projects (ER3.2). This offers evidence on how new solutions can be implemented in different local contexts and strengthen urban governance ability to bring policy into action (EO3.1). The coordinated approach across Partnerships will create synergies and aligned efforts towards the EGD and the European CNC mission (EO3.2).

Corresponding economic and societal impact: Cities and stakeholders have evidence at hand to put their strategies into actions and achieve accelerated and targeted urban transitions compared to JPI UE,

DUT will be able to enhance its impact due to

• a stronger consortium that (1) includes 22 EU MSs, 4 ACs and 1 Third Country and, thus, allows to establish a common European-wide innovation ecosystem on urban transformation, (2) connects more strongly to sectoral policies and (3) allows to continue the advancement of R&I instruments for challenge-driven R&I.

• The intention to strengthen the link between transnational and national activities (T1.3) and, thus, be better able to align actions, mobilise a wider set of urban stakeholders and take better use of results also in smaller cities.

• A wider thematic scope addressing three key issues for climate neutrality and sustainability, through a multi-annual programme and, thus, offering cities, businesses and civil society entry points according to their strategies and priorities.

• Additional efforts towards making results available and accessible and designing new formats for valorisation, mainstreaming, demonstration and replication to speed up transformation processes in all countries.

• Higher international visibility due to the long-term perspective and funding commitments of MSs/ACs and EC.

2.1.1 Significance and scale of the DUT Partnership

1. DUT unites a total of 64 national or regional R&I programmes owners and managers, urban policy- related agencies and other strategic partners from 27 countries. During the entire Partnership duration (2022-2033), about EUR 430 million (in-cash and in-kind) will be spent by countries and EC, to strengthen capacities for sustainable urban transitions. The DUT consortium includes 22 EU MSs (82%), 4 ACs (IS, NO, UK, TR) and 1 Third Country (CH). The call budget expected per year is about EUR 57 million, which will triple the typical volume of previous ERA-NET Cofunds organised by JPI UE. Further to this, the recipients of funding on national levels will raise an additional amount of EUR 150 million in private or local public contributions to the programme given the usual funding rate of 50-70%. However, the projects initiated in the DUT Partnership are expected to trigger public and private investments worth more than EUR 200 billion, to create sustainable and climate-neutral urban infrastructures and neighbourhoods. (EO1.1)

2. DUT will organise its programme management along the 3 TPs in the fields of energy, mobility and circular economy that directly contribute to the EGD priorities and the European CNC mission. They will build upon the JPI UE SRIA 2.0xxiii (published in 2019) and provide entry points for municipalities and urban stakeholders to complement their own strategic priorities. These TPs have each set out their specific aims and will serve as interfaces to the national strategies of the participating MSs and ACs. While the PED TP aims to bring to life 100 PEDs until 2025 and to replicate even more until 2030, the 15minC TP plans to create a collection of 50+ solutions for the transformation of urban mobility and planning. The CUE TP aims to establish 2 long-term local innovation platforms in each DUT partner country for regenerative neighbourhoods. The challenges and needs for action for the TPs were identified in co-creation processes involving 400 stakeholders in public consultations and stakeholderxlii and 50 citiesxliii. These inputs were taken up in the DUT Roadmapxliv, which was co-designed by all DUT partners and will be implemented in each TP with the support of the respective Steering Group (EO1.1 and EO3.2).

3. By running at least 7 joint calls with EUR 50 million call budget each, DUT will fund approx. 400 projects, involving about 2,800 project partners from research, business, civil society and (local) public authorities. These estimates are based on figures from JPI UE, which show an average project budget of EUR 1-1.5 million (depending on the types of projects) and an average of 7 project partners per project. In addition, most of the projects will mobilise additional stakeholders. From 2013 to 2020, JPI UE created 180 ULLs. The number is expected to increase to more than 500 ULLs in DUT. Together with the activities on capacity- building the creation of a community of 3,000-4,000 stakeholders is expected that will shape the priorities of DUT, engage in joint projects and learn from project results. (EO1.2 and EO2.1)

4. The DUT joint calls will be challenge-oriented and co-designed together with stakeholders, to ensure that research results lead from strategies to action. The projects funded in DUT are expected to be inter- and transdisciplinary and involve urban stakeholders in co-designing the solutions. This will result in about 200 policy recommendations, case studies or other forms of guidance for action that will be made available broadly. The website, social media, newsletters, videos, webinars like the Urban Lunch Talks, and other communication and dissemination channels will enable DUT to address specific target groups, such as urban practitioners, experts in research and consulting, industry stakeholders. A set of valorisation activities will make the process and results of the R&I actions visible for citizens and enable a tangible experience of how research and innovation efforts can transform their everyday lives for the better (EO3.1).

Table 4: Expected outcome (EO) of DUT joint calls.

Expected outcome (call text)	DUT results and outcomes	related DUT IP	related SO/OO	related WPs
Enhanced multi-level	A transformative transnational R&I
cooperation and	programme and innovation eco-
alignment on R&I on	system for urban transformations is
sustainable urban	co-designed with all partners and
development across and	well connected to national and
within cities, regions and	regional ones; a governance model
countries, including	is applied that strengthens multi-
international outreach and cooperation with other networks and initiatives.	level governance cooperation incl. programme owners, funders, sectoral policy-makers, urban stakeholders; funding instruments are advanced towards challenge-	IP1 supported by IP2 + IP3	SO1.1 SO1.2 SO3.1	WP1, WP3+4, WP8
	driven R&I; strategic alignment and
	cooperation with international
	networks, neighbouring
	Partnerships and initiatives allows
	to create synergies and avoid
	duplication of efforts and
	investments

Strengthen Europe as a role model for R&I on sustainable urban development.

Position DUT as THE European R&I hub for urban transformations towards climate neutrality; results are accessible and available for stakeholders and decision-makers on all levels worldwide; innovative solutions and approaches are demonstrated, and references provided; international relationships allow to raise awareness for the European urban innovation

ecosystem;

IP1 + IP3

SO1.2 SO3.2

WP5 (T5.1,

T5.4), WP7,

WP8 (T8.3)

Innovative, cross-sectoral and inclusive governance, policy- and decision- making harnessing the full potential of social science and citizens’ engagement in city making process.

All urban stakeholder groups are involved in agenda setting; inter- and transdisciplinary R&I projects and ULLs co-design place-based approaches to ensure relevance for policy; target-group specific empowerment strengthens

involvement of local initiatives and citizens in urban transformation

IP2

SO2.1

WP2 WP3+4 WP6 (T6.2)

Sustainable, safe, resilient, socially inclusive, liveable and attractive neighbourhoods, towns and cities with reduced environmental footprint and enhanced well-being and quality of life for citizens.

The three DUT TPs define key areas for urban transitions towards climate neutrality addressing critical issues for transformations; place-based approaches and solutions are created through ULLs and other co-design formats in funded projects; focus is given to integrated approaches that allow for inclusive, just, regenerative, etc.

transitions

IP 1

SO1.2

WP2 WP3+4 WP6 (T6.3),

Local authorities, municipalities, business, social partners, civil society, knowledge institutions and citizens empowered with necessary knowledge, skills and tools to actively engage in sustainability and climate-neutrality

transitions.

Evidence, references and solutions are made available and accessible for all stakeholder groups; replication and mainstreaming are supported, as well as demonstration and valorisation of innovative solutions in neighbourhoods to create ‘look and feel’ experiences

IP3

SO3.2

WP5 (T5.4) WP6

WP7

Cities fully empowered to play their critical role in providing solutions to global challenges thanks to enhanced technological, institutional, digital, nature-based and social innovation capacity.

Urban stakeholders are mobilised and empowered to engage in transformative urban R&I; results, references and guidelines are widely made available for urban actors; support and coaching is offered for projects to strengthen science-policy/society cooperation

and enhance relevance of research for cities

IP2

SO2.1

WP2 WP3+4 WP5 (T5.3), WP7

Science and evidence- based implementation of the EGD, the UAEU and

other European, national,

The three DUT TPs define key areas for urban transformation towards climate neutrality and

sustainability; scientific evidence is

IP1 + IP3

SO1.2 SO3.1

WP2 WP8

regional and local urban- relevant policies and strategies.

provided for European and international urban policy-making, in particular the EGD, the UAEU, EUI; cooperation with other Partnerships and networks allows a wider uptake of evidence and

results on all policy levels

2.1.2 Potential barriers and enabling factors for achieving the impacts

While the consortium is committed to jointly implementing the programme to achieve the intended impacts, there are some external factors influencing the success.

• The European CNC mission and the NEB: For the European CNC mission a complementary set of activities is under development towards the shared aim of creating climate-neutral cities. In addition, the NEB initiative that was started recently by the EC, is another supporting element that can have significant impact on mobilising stakeholders, in particular non-research actors and civil society, for urban transformation. Both created high-level attention, reinforced policy efforts to set up more ambitious strategies and actions and underlines the importance of co-designing urban transformations. This potentially enhances the willingness of national and regional actors to invest and engage in DUT. At the same time, aligning the European activities and the transnational DUT Partnership well would allow to exploit synergies, avoid duplication of efforts or overstressing the capacities of urban stakeholders. For this purpose, relati onships need to be established as soon as both programmes are formally starting operations (T2.5).

• Resistance in EU, national and regional funding and innovation regimes to adapt to the new needs for transformative R&I: The importance of co-designing urban solutions and approaches and taking an active role in urban R&I has been stressed already. DUT aims at improving the national and regional R&I funding schemes towards transformative R&I. However, the ability to adapt existing funding instruments is strongly influenced by institutional and legal frameworks. Some DUT partners may not or only in a very limited way be able to follow the new requirements. This will determine the degree to which DUT will be able to fund various stakeholder groups, set up new call formats or extend activities towards demonstration and replication.

• Diverging political priorities of city councils and governments: Although there is a high attention and support for urban transformation and sustainable urban development at the moment, this may change due to changing political interests or shift of priorities caused by different kinds of crisis. In order to create the intended impact, the willingness and ability of city councils, city administration and other stakeholders must be given. Through communication, and the measures for capacity building and impact creation, DUT will continue raising awareness of the importance of urban transitions and offer support to city authorities and urban actors to bring their policies into action. Alliances with the EC and policy-related networks will be sought for keeping political ambition high for urban transformation.

• Ability to establish new urban governance and efficient and effective urban value generation in urban innovation ecosystems: The wider impact of DUT activities and results for and in cities is, among others, determined by the ability of city councils and administrations to establish integrated and cross-silo / cross- departmental governance and by that implement new solutions more effectively. In addition, new forms of cooperation of city administration and planning with public or private infrastructure and service providers, real estate and construction and supply industry may be needed to efficiently make use of new approaches and solutions. DUT aims to support the development of such new horizontal and vertical cooperation mechanisms through funded projects, ULLs and capacity building measures. However, to achieve a long- term effect of these activities requires commitment of all partners and possibly new legal frameworks, regulations and support structures across the urban value chain.

2.1.3 Contribution to trigger transformational changes

As indicated in Section 1 (see Section 1.2.1) and the DUT IPs, the DUT consortium is very committed to trigger transformational change – from the level of establishing instruments for transformational R&I programmes up

to the creation and mainstreaming of new solutions to transform neighbourhoods and urban areas. According to the experiences from JPI UE, for an R&I programme to truly contribute to transformational change the following issues need to be considered and will be addressed in DUT:

• Advance national and regional R&I funding programmes and instruments to better accommodate the needs of urban actors and offer opportunities and funding for science-policy-society cooperation (OO1.3);

• Foster experimentation as the new norm in transformative governance (OO2.1);

• Mobilise and empower stakeholders to engage in the programme development and priority setting and thus strengthen co-design of solutions (OO2.2);

• Go beyond conventional approaches for bringing results into action, e.g., by emphasising the role of new business actors, innovative business models and strengthening the role of societal initiatives, innovators, (social) entrepreneurs (OO2.2, OO3.3);

• Address urban challenges from an integrated, cross-silo perspective and put attention to critical, conflicting issues hampering successful transitions (OO1.2, OO3.1);

• Provide research results and outcome in accessible formats for policy makers and urban stakeholders, e.g., through strategic synthesis, peer-to-peer learning, guidelines, etc., that allow urban actors to put such results more easily into practice (OO3.2);

2.1.4 DUT indicators and KPIs

Based on consultations with the EC DG RTD G4 (Common Missions & Partnerships) service, the consortium decided to follow a strategic approach towards defining the DUT KPIs. Therefore, there is not a 1:1 relation of objectives and indicators, but a set of indicators that covers all objectives of the IPs in a comprehensive way. Table 5 summarises the draft set of KPIs for the overall duration of the DUT partnership (2022-2033). These KPIs will be embedded in the wider DUT monitoring framework that will be developed in WP4. This monitoring framework is building upon the existing monitoring framework and implementation plan of JPI UE, which covers the project, call and programme levelxlv. The monitoring framework will be adapted according to the requirements of DUT in order to be able to monitor the progress of the TPs, the funded projects as well as the strategic programme management activities. In addition, the EC requirements for cross-partnership monitoring will be considered.

Table 5: DUT Partnership monitoring and evaluation framework

DUT Partnership			Monitoring and evaluation framework JPI UE monitoring frameworkxlvi (2017) and monitoring implementation planxlvii (2019) as a reference for DUT
Overall vision: The DUT Partnership steps up the game to tackle urban challenges. We enable local authorities and municipalities, business and citizens to translate global strategies into local action. We develop the skills and tools to make urban change happen and boost the urgently needed urban transformations.
Objectives	What is a measure of success?	Which is the data source and methodology used	Who is responsible for monitoring and providing the data / information When will it be collected?	Baseline and target
IP1: Implement a transformative R&I programme focusing on integrated approaches for energy, mobility and circularity transitions
General GO1	Number and type of activities and achievements towards accomplishing the missions of the TPs	Mapping of call topics (call texts), activities and achievements (reports) against the TPs according to the DUT Roadmap	DUT Management	Baseline: In the PED programme, a portfolio of activities was established incl. a city panel, mapping exercises, development of a framework, calls, international outreach in Mission Innovation. Target: Continuous and balanced portfolio of activities and achievements in each of the TPs
Specific SO1.1/SO1.2	Allocated and contracted annual budget for joint calls (according to key areas of the DUT TPs: PED, 15minC, CUE);	OMS	Call Management	Baseline: EUR 25 million average allocated budget and average EUR 18 million contracted budget per ERA-NET in JPI UE; Target: EUR 50 million average allocated budget and EUR 45 million contracted budget per annual call
Operational OO1.1	Number of countries and national and regional partners engaged in the DUT governance	Community Relationship Management (CRM) System, Call Texts, GA	CRM Tool Administrator, Call Management, DUT Management	Baseline: 64 partners from 27 countries in DUT proposal; Target: keep level of engagement of involved DUT countries and mobilise new international countries

Operational OO1.3	Number of transdisciplinary projects and number of type of beneficiaries reached	OMS	Call Management	Baseline: 110 projects funded in JPI UE calls (2013-2020) with 571 beneficiaries from universities, public and private research organisations, businesses, city authorities, non- profit organisations, other governmental institutions Target: 400 projects funded in DUT with 2800 project partners. 50 % of project partners are non- research organisations.
IP2: Shape a multi-stakeholder innovation eco-system to drive urban transitions
General GO2	Multi-stakeholder community by share of stakeholders (city authorities, business, societal actors, and researchers)	CRM	DUT Management	Baseline: 65 % research, 21 % local public authorities, 10% businesses, 4 % civil society actors Target: increase share of local public authorities, business, civil society to achieve a distribution of about 40% research, 30 % local public authorities, 20% businesses, 10 % civil society actors
Specific SO2	Number of stakeholders mobilised across all formats and their geographical spread	CRM	CRM Tool Administrator, DUT Management	Baseline: approx. 500 stakeholders engaged in JPI UE (2017-2020); Target: 3,000 stakeholders mobilised with a balanced stakeholder participation across all DUT countries.
Operational OO2.1	Number of ULLs and their geographical distribution	OMS, Submission System: Project reporting	Call Management	Baseline: 130+ ULLs created in 100 JPI UE projects (2012-2020). Target: 500 ULLs in DUT (2022-2033).
Operational OO2.2	Number and type of formats to mobilize stakeholders	Report to Governing Board	DUT Management	Baseline: 2 AGORA events per year in JPI UE (2017-2020), 16 knowledge sharing and relationship building events (2019). Target: 3 AGORA dialogues per year plus 20 community building measures.
IP3: Contribute to the achievement of the Green Deal and the European CNC Mission and thus creating wider societal a. economic benefit
General GO3	Number of projects and activities contributing to the SDGs, EGD, UAEU	Mapping of projects and activities against SDGs,	DUT Management	Baseline: N/A;

		EGD, the European CNC Mission and UAEU		Target: all funded projects contribute towards the SDGs, the EGD and/or the UAEU, 80 % of events are related to EGD priorities.
Specific SO3.1	Number and type of joint activities with other European Partnerships, R&I initiatives, and international networks	CRM, report to GB	DUT Management	Baseline: N/A; Target: At least 3 joint activities with other initiatives per year.
Specific SO3.2	Number of interactions with wider community	Website visits, newsletter subscribers, social media interactions	Management Board (Communication)	Baseline: e.g., 5,000 newsletter subscribers (2021), 2,000 followers in social media (2020). Target: Increase number of interactions by a factor of 2 until 2032.
Operational OO3.2/OO3.3	Number and type of activities and material for evidence- based policy-making and mainstreaming of solutions (e.g., policy briefs, white papers, newsletters, social media posts, online articles)	Report to GB	DUT Management, Communication Officer (WP5)	Baseline: e.g., 18 ULTs (2018-2021), approx. 50 policy recommendations (2015-2020), 4 newsletter/year in JPI UE; Target: 35 ULTs, 200 policy recommendations (2022-2032), etc.

2.1.5 Intervention logic of the DUT Partnership

Fig. 3: DUT Partnership Intervention Logic.

2.2 Measures to maximise impact – communication, dissemination and exploitation

DUT communication aims to support the DUT Partnership ambitions to pursue co-creation of integrated TPs and strategies to tackle the wicked issues of sustainable urbanization, to create evidence with and for city administrations, municipalities, business and society, and to support innovation and capacity building needed to transform our neighbourhoods and urban areas. Consistency in activities and building on previous experiences, extending existing infrastructures, improving formats and channels is key to achieve the long-term impacts. DUT communication will therefore, build upon the formats and experiences of JPI UE. While the focus in the run-up phase of JPI UE has been to promote the program, mobilise stakeholders, building the community and pilot formats, communication efforts in DUT will be stepped-up to more strongly showcase results and outcomes from research, make evidence accessible and keep engaging urban actors.

According to this high-ambition and diverse set of communication requirements, the DUT communication, dissemination and exploitation activities can be broadly clustered in nine distinct , but highly-interlinked key areas (see Fig. 4). The corresponding proposed activities are described as tasks in Section 3.

Scaling-up activities for broader outreach and long-term impact will require additional capacities, moving beyond the current small communication team, with an agile working process towards a more distributed model where several DUT partners take on communication-related tasks and some tasks are outsourced. A necessary step towards standardising activities, guidelines and templates for future activities – and in the longer-term, a step towards organisational learning - was already taken with a handbook for call implementation, including call promotion, developed in CSA EXPAND II. The Corporate Design manual to be developed (T5.1), with guidelines for inclusive communication, as well as trainings for DUT partners to use digital tools for co- production at meetings (e.g., MURAL, Menti, Concept Board, Zoom) (T.1), is part of the scheme. Efficient routines and channels already in place to handle invitations and registrations enable task sharing.

Fig. 4: Overview of key areas of DUT communication. Yellow: DUT IP1: Facilitating sustainable, inclusive and climate neutral urban areas through coordinated, transformative R&I; Blue: DUT IP2: Shaping a multi-stakeholder innovation eco-system to strengthen relevance of urban R&I; Green: DUT IP3: Bringing knowledge to action and support the CNC Mission implementation. While communication activities related to IP1 aim to promote the program and the calls, communication activities related to IP2 aim to support the events with infrastructures and communication, and finally activities related to IP3 aim to showcase results and put knowledge into action.

2.2.1 Dissemination, exploitation and communication strategy

Cornerstones in the DUT Communication, Dissemination and Exploitation (C, D & E) strategy (T5.1) are to maintain and further develop the infrastructures and channels built up in JPI UE, scale up successful pilot

activities and formats for outreach to relevant target groups. The website will be improved, as the main hub of communication, with easy access to results from research projects. We will continue to strive for inclusive communication, by way of formulating compelling narratives, avoiding scientific language and care for the needs of specific target groups. Events are used as focal points of interaction and drivers of communication, while we will explore the full potential of digital tools and social media in a new hybrid landscape and leverage outreach through a purposeful collaboration with other networks and international initiatives. These strategic elements are further elaborated in the following sections.

Corporate communication and branding is important to make the Partnership visible and widely known in Europe and to retain support for the initiative from influential actors and agencies at the national and European level. With the start of DUT, the corporate communication and the key components of corporate identity will be updated to promote and brand the DUT Partnership as the new program of JPI UE and its long-term partners. In combination with key narratives related to the three TPs (PED, 15minC, CUE) and the three IPs, five objectives will give direction to DUT communication and help brand the partnership as THE knowledge hub in Europe for urban transitions:

(1) Promote DUT as a place for co-creation involving cities, businesses and researchers (IP2);

(2) Promote DUT as a reliable partner that provides evidence-based policy recommendations to local, European and global policy agendas (IP1 and IP3);

(3) Show results and demonstrate the value of investments in transnational, transdisciplinary and co-produced research and innovation (IP3);

(4) Promote matchmaking and experimental instruments and methods (IP1) and

(5) Promote valorisation and impact on the ground through the upscaling of pilots and exhibitions (IP3);

Inclusive communication

DUT strives for inclusive communication in writing and visual communication. Newsletters, social media and digitally distributed reports, facts sheets, policy briefs are typically produced with city practitioners and policy- makers as intended target groups. As the programme aims for capacity building and co-creation of knowledge and solutions communication often seeks to inspire involvement and engagement. Two-way communication, interaction and dialogues are sought for. Scientific language and abbreviations are avoided, together with images that convey and reinforce stereotypes. Instead, we strive for a broad representation in gender, age, professions, nationalities in all visual communication, e.g., photos, collages, videos. Furthermore, DUT communication activities are planned and organised with an awareness of how gender issues and other power relationships can play out. These implicit rules of conduct are in place to achieve inclusive and fair communication, in terms of who speaks at conferences or is cited in news and mentioned in social media, how topics are framed and how dialogues are conducted. Such aspects will be integrated in the DUT C, D & E strategy and the corporate design manual (T5.1), as explicit routines and guidelines. At events, a balance of speakers in terms of gender, nationalities and city size, as well as a broad and balanced representation of speakers from academia, civil society, public authorities, European networks etc. will be ensured. In particular, ULTs and AGORA have formats that strive to create a level playing field for stakeholders from cities and researchers, putting the cas es from cities centre stage.

2.2.2 Target groups

In addition to the inclusive approach to communication described above, DUT communication will take steps towards target group specific and, thereby, more diversified communication, framing key activities and narratives so that it adapts to the needs of specific groups of actors. In the broad and vast community of actors that need to be actively involved and engaged in the transformation of urban areas seven groups have been identified as central to the three IPs (Fig. 3):

(1) European policy-makers (IP1);

(2) National and regional programme managers and owners (IP1);

(3) Multipliers incl. international networks, initiatives and other European Partnerships (IP3);

(4) Researchers (IP1, IP2);

(5) City authorities and urban infrastructure providers (all IPs);

(6) Local civil society initiatives and communities (all IPs);

(7) Businesses (incl. real estate, utilities, mobility providers, service providers, IT) (all IPs).

As explained in Fig. 5 there are formats already in place and that will be enhanced to involve and communicate with these groups. European policy-makers (1) are addressed in many DUT activities, including high-profile activities and dialogues. In DUT, efforts to liaise with European organisations and institutions to provide evidence to European policy-makers and to support urban transition agendas will be stepped-up with the Partnership knowledge hubs in place (T7.1) that can commission dedicated synthesis activities to be packaged and communicated.

While many national and regional programme managers and owners (2) are already engaged in DUT as partners, they can also be engaged as ambassadors in their national contexts. In addition, there are multipliers and intermediaries, e.g., business or network organisations and international networks and initiatives including other European Partnerships that can help us expand our activities and reach out more widely (3). In addition to the listed groups here, thematically oriented target groups will naturally form around the three IPs.

Four target groups are directly involved in policy-making, research or transition activities on ground (4-7) and, therefore, particularly important to enhance communication and engagement with. The DUT R&I communities that are addressed with calls, as potential applicants for project funding, include (4) researchers, (7) business (real estate, construction, mobility, IT, entrepreneurs, etc.), (5) city authorities and urban infrastructure providers, (6) NGOs, local civil society initiatives and communities. While researchers navigate with ease and are naturally drawn to research funding opportunities, more efforts will be needed for the communication with the other groups who are also approached as users/benefactors of knowledge and outcomes. Stepped-up efforts in DUT communication to showcase results on website and other channels, i.e., to package results and outcomes, such as policy recommendations, synthesised evidence, best cases, towards specific and initiate social media campaigns will mainly be aimed at these groups.

City authorities have been in focus from start, represented in panels at conferences and in ULTs, members of city panels, explicitly addressed in call texts and funded project partners in calls. In follow-up interviews cities’ incentives to participate in projects and long-term effects have been investigated. In comparison, the business sector has been less represented yet. Actors from the business sector have been involved mostly in the PED initiative (TP PED) and a pilot call launched in 2017 ‘Making Cities Work’. While there are learnings from PED on triggers for business actors to engage in future Partnership activities, it is anticipated that funding- and match- making opportunities are important to reach this group. While local civil society initiati ves and communities are seen as an important target group to drive urban transition locally and have been represented in AGORA dialogues, they have not been as successful in receiving funding. For all these three target groups, new ways to empower them and connect them more strongly to R&I activities will be investigated (T6.2).

The Community Relationship Management (CRM) tool, implemented in 2021 by JPI UE, will facilitate efforts to design communication campaigns and information flows for specific target groups and to follow-up on attendance patterns at events. It enables better overview of actors and stakeholders involved in the various activities, boards, groups and social media communities that make up the DUT community and paves the way for a more efficient distribution of invitations to activities.

2.2.3 Formats and channels

There are formats in place to reach out to the different target groups described above in their roles , as DUT partners, members of R&I communities and as such potential applicants, project partners and stakeholders, but also policy-makers, ambassadors and multipliers. Formats range from large multi-purpose events, such as policy conferences, projects events, AGORA dialogues, with a broad representation of participants from all stakeholder groups, as well as formats with more specific aims and selected target groups involved. Members from the scientific community for example meet in the Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA) and at Urban TPs Symposiums, while city practitioners join ULTs, call information and match-making seminars. In addition to open or semi-open-events, there are also target-group specific panels in place. One example is the City panel established in the PED initiative (T2.2-2.4). Fig. 5 summarises the main formats that have been applied in JPI UE and that will be extended in DUT to reach out and disseminate results to the main target groups.

Events as focal points of interaction and drivers of communication

JPI UE has successfully applied a strategy to use events as focal points for interaction and as drivers of communication, building up communication towards the events. ULTs are occasionally used as ´uptalks´ to AGORA and policy conferences and participants are invited to stay connected and continue conversations in

digital forums and social media, such as Slack and LinkedIn, before and after events or – in case of call promotion – through the match-making platform B2Match. This approach will be further applied in DUT and combined with enhanced communication of outcomes including the website and social media campaigns.

Fig. 5: Overview of the target group specific dissemination formats used to ´exploit´ and leverage the impact from the DUT results: red: In place or hybrid events and meetings / green: digital and web-based formats / yellow: social media / blue: digital and (occasionally) printed material. Instruments and channels that are new in DUT in italics.

Building on the experiences of JPI UE, DUT will continue to organise events and seminars to mobilise a broad and devoted community around urban transitions. There are well-advanced and established interactive event formats in place, such as AGORA dialogues (T6.1), Urban TPs Symposiums, ULTs and policy conferences (T5.3) that will be continued. In some cases, they will be adapted into hybrid formats that combine online activities with activities onsite to extend the possibility of participating without travelling, while retaining a valuable experience for those who choose to travel to a meeting.

Non-travel policies and hybrid events are believed to continue post COVID-19. This setting comes with opportunities, as well as challenges. Conferences may be less important as unique meeting places providing first-hand information. Online participants can optimize their time, `cherry picking` sessions and stay for parts of meetings. At the same time, accessibility of conference content on demand is facilitated. Pre-recorded presentations or entire sessions can easily be made available after the session for free on You Tube. In this context, it will be even more important to offer a mix of different digital channels and platforms for researchers and stakeholder to interact. The Partnership can build already on pilot activities from EXPAND II to create a single entry-point at the website with access to digital forums and channels, including Slack and LinkedIN, branded as ´Get involved´. In addition, social media, such as Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube will be used more intensively to share digital content, including video clips, from events to a wider audience.

JPI UE has successfully organised five policy conferences, of which the first four were organised in Brussels and the fifth in November 2020, due to the COVID-19 induced travel restrictions, on the digital platform “Get digital”. These events have proven important to build a community around the program and a transition agenda for urban areas, to present and gain support for strategic research agendas, continue dialogues, showcase results and liaise with longer term partners including the EC.

Building on these experiences, DUT will continue to organise biennial events with high-visibility in Brussels. A total of five events are planned within the DUT Partnership timeline, three of which in the framework of the first GA, starting with the launch event in Spring 2022. The interactive ULTs webinars, conceptualised in EXPAND and advanced in EXPAND II and ERA-NETs have mobilised participants from 40 countries and 6 continents since 2018. The aim of the ULTs is to spark action for co-creation of knowledge between a diversity of actors, and to communicate and make sense of new R&I results. Annual project meetings that gather researchers and project partners outside academia are important opportunities to facilitate knowledge exchange across projects and calls, build a strong community and leverage impact from projects.

In addition, call promotion activities including dialogues and consultations are important to promote the DUT Partnership to city authorities, policy-makers, business and civil society, as a relevant knowledge hub and

platform for co-creation. As a reference, three hundred people registered for the ENUTC matchmaking seminar in March 2020, and a total of 450 people signed up at the matchmaking platform B2Match following the meeting.

DUT communication infrastructure including website

The DUT website is the central hub in the DUT communication infrastructure and as such the main entry point to DUT as a knowledge hub for urban transitions. The new website to be conceptualised and implemented in the first year of DUT, will, in line with inclusive and target group specific communication strategy, give strong focus to practitioners and policy-makers in cities, featuring the DUT TPs as entry points. Improved search functions and advanced interactive interfaces will facilitate access to material. Features conceptualised for and implemented on the current website, as part of EXPAND II, will be further advanced at the new website. This includes a dashboard that allows stakeholders to inform themselves about main achievements of the Partnership on the level of countries, calls and communitiesxlviii; interactive maps that provide a geographical entry point and make it easy to find activities, including ULLs, case studies and project partners on city level. In compliance with guidelines for open access, a repository is to be integrated on the website with improved search functions from a user’s perspective (T5.2). The repository will offer, either via link or storage on the website it self, a collection of academic publications, guidelines and other products produced by JPI UE and DUT projects, as well as material from strategic dialogues and synthesis.

Other formats and measures to disseminate and showcase results for policy impact

With a growing portfolio of projects funded in JPI UE calls and more to come in the DUT joint calls there is a critical mass of results and outcomes that can be shared in a systematic way to stakeholder groups. Formats already in place to package and brand results and outcomes include (digital) results’ catalogues, policy briefs and policy recommendations, videos, blog posts, news articles, and interviews xlix. Additional formats, with particular attention to audio-visual formats that can be easily shared in social media and on website, will be identified and implemented in cooperation with professional support.

Pilot activities will be undertaken to package material produced by the TPs (WP2) with the aim to provide an evidence base to influence and realise policy agendas in Europe and beyond.

The social media (message) platform will go from a small-scale and agile strategy that mostly communicates around our own events and activities and promotes materials from projects and partners to a scaled-up platform with campaigns, collaborations, and specific content to showcase results and outcomes from the projects and DUT activities, and with a more strategic use of image, message, and increased audience interaction. To maximize outreach cooperation with ‘multipliers’ and networks will be extended. This comprises city and business networks, networks of local initiatives, as well as European and international bodies, such as Eurocities, CEMR, ERRIN, City Science Initiative CSI, Polis, etc. The DUT Synergies Forum will play a particular role in this regard (see Section 3.2).

In addition, a valorisation strategy that goes beyond current ´exploitation´ activities will be developed in the first years of DUT. This strategy aims at realising concrete examples with a ‘look and feel’ of urban transitions in local settings. The valorisation strategy will include actions that aim to showcase outcomes from funded projects and in particular ULLs in cities, for example through exhibitions, contests and videos (WP7).

2.2.4 Strategy for the management of intellectual property

Intellectual property will be generated on two levels, namely (1) within the funded projects: by entities that partake in the funded projects and (2) within DUT itself, by the partners and third parties contracted to create Intellectual Property.

The intellectual property generated within the funded projects will be managed by (1) the rules set forth in the GA between the funding bodies and the funded entities (NGA), (2) the CA between the funded entities in the funded project (PCA) and (3) the transnational rules (as stated in the call text). Regulations will comply to European, national and international laws and regulations:

• Intellectual property generated will be owned by the funded entities and not the DUT partners.

• The NGA will enforce European, national and international laws and regulations regarding intellectual property and rights of use for the respective funding body to allow for promotion, monitoring, controlling and dissemination.

• In the mandatory PCA, ownership and rights to intellectual property must be regulated in accordance with European, national and international laws and regulations l . It will be suggested to funded projects to use the DESCAli model as a basis for their PCA.

• Rights of use will be granted to DUT for non-sensitive information to allow for promotion, monitoring and dissemination (regulated in the NGA and call text).

• Rights of use will be granted to the EC for non-sensitive information (in compliance with Article 16.3 of the GA and regulated in the NGA and call text).

The ownership and rights to intellectual property generated within DUT is regulated in detail in the CA and the GA (as stated in Article 16), and will respect all European, national and international laws and regulations following these principles:

• All DUT partners are to be granted access to the “background” (as defined in the GA Article 16) needed to implement the action (Article 16.1).

• “Results” (as defined in the GA Article 16) will be owned by the partner that generates it. “Results” where partners financially or directly contributed to shall be jointly owned and may be used for non - commercial activities on a royalty-free basis.

• Rights of use will be granted to the EC for non-sensitive information as stated in Article 16.3 of the GA

2.3 Summary: Key elements of the impact section

SPECIFIC NEEDS	EXPECTED RESULTS	D & E & C MEASURES
Integrated approaches are needed that exploit synergies and anticipate possible conflicts across different sectors, domains and disciplines	A portfolio of inter- and trans-disciplinary projects is created, that develops and tests new solutions, technologies, methods, tools, systems and business models for the three DUT TPs A joint R&I strategy is implemented and funding instruments fit for challenge- driven and mission-oriented R&I are tested	Exploitation: DUT policy conferences to raise awareness and exploit synergies with other European programmes Dissemination towards the EC and national R&I programme owners: Promotion of DUT and its strategic priorities Communication towards the scientific community and urban stakeholders: Call promotion and match-making opportunities to form inter- and transdisciplinary project consortia
Strengthen science-policy- society cooperation to enhance relevance of R&I for cities and urban stakeholders and mobilise them to engage in R&I	Multi stakeholder communities to co-design the programme and its activities ULLs are implemented in DUT projects to co-develop place-based solutions and approaches Key target groups are mobilised and empowered to engage in R&I activities	Communication of engagement opportunities: Event promotion and communication of event results through newsletters, social media and website. Cooperation with ´multipliers´, e.g., European and international networks and initiatives to reach out to a wider community. Dissemination towards the scientific community and urban stakeholders: Provision of infrastructure to facilitate multi-stakeholder engagement through on-site, digital and hybrid interactive events and continued interaction among community members through an online stakeholder platform.
Accelerate uptake, replication and mainstreaming of urban solutions for the benefit of	Cooperation and alignment with neighbouring Partnerships and other initiatives	Exploitation of results in form of e.g., synthesis for evidence-based policy-making and mainstreaming of policy recommendations

society and achieving the SDGs	Evidence and synthesis made widely available and	Dissemination and showcasing of results towards municipalities and urban actors
	accessible for international,	through webinars, social media, policy
	European, national and local	recommendations, guidelines, etc.
	policy-makers and
	stakeholders

TARGET GROUPS OUTCOMES IMPACT

R&I programme owners and funders

R&I community

Enhanced knowledge and capacities of national and regional R&I programme owners and funders regarding transformative R&I programmes to achieve SDGs and EU policies for climate neutrality.

Inter- and transdisciplinary consortia deliver co- designed and place-based solutions and approaches answering concrete challenges

Policy: Multi-level cooperation and alignment in R&I programming for climate neutrality and sustainable urban development is established that contributes to EU policies (e.g., EGD, UAEU) and SDGs. Size: a EUR 400 million programme is contributing to the European CNC mission

Scientific: Evidence is provided to support urban actors in their efforts to create sustainable, safe, resilient, socially inclusive, liveable and attractive neighbourhoods, towns and cities with reduced environmental footprint and enhanced well-being and quality of life for citizens.

Size: 400 projects are funded and deliver evidence

Local authorities, municipalities, infrastructure providers, real estate, business, entrepreneurs, start-ups, local initiatives and researchers

R&I priorities that are tuned towards stakeholder needs and allow stakeholders to engage in R&I projects.

Increased participation of stakeholders in R&I projects.

Scientific: Local authorities, municipalities, business, social partners, civil society, knowledge institutions and citizens empowered with necessary knowledge to actively engage in urban transitions.

Size: about 3000-4000 stakeholders mobilised

Policy: Cities, local initiatives and innovative business is empowered to play their critical role in co-designing solutions to global challenges

Size: project consortia are composed to 50% of stakeholder organisations

Neighbouring Partnerships and related EU and international networks and initiatives

Local authorities, municipalities, infra- structure providers, real, estate, business, entrepreneurs, start-ups, local initiatives and researchers

Focused and effective input to policy-making due to exploited synergies across neighbouring initiatives

Widespread accessibility of new solutions inspiring strategies and action plans for urban transitions across Europe.

Policy: Science and evidence-based implementation of the EGD, the UAEU and other urban-relevant policies and strategies.

Size: e.g., 200 policy recommendations

Economic: Europe as a role model for R&I on sustainable urban development and urban climate neutrality

Size: e.g., 500 ULLs as references

3 Quality and efficiency of the implementation

3.1 Work plan and resources

According to the ambition and objectives of the DUT Partnership, a work plan (Fig. 6) with four main dimensions has been developed for the period 2022-2028 to:

• Ensure an efficient and effective management of the DUT Partnership and create an open governance mechanism to welcome new partners (WP1);

• Continue the strategic development and promotion of the DUT programme and its three TPs to fulfil the DUT vision and objectives (WPs 2+5);

• Realise a series of joint calls to create and co-design knowledge, innovation and scientific evidence in and for the DUT TPs (WPs 3, 4, 5);

• Develop new formats and carry out support measures across the DUT TPs to strengthen impact and capacities for urban transformations (WP6+7+8).

The work plan addresses the following priorities and activities:

• Establish a governance and management structure and procedures for the DUT partnership (see Section 3.2) that build upon the existing JPI UE structure (WP1);

• Continue the strategic development and operational implementation of the TPs to fulfil the DUT vision and objectives (WP2);

• Implement at least two joint calls to address key issues of the three DUT TPs and co-create scientific evidence and innovation for urban transformations according to the DUT Roadmap (WP3 and Section 3.3);

• Implement a monitoring framework and advance the existing OMS to ensure contribution of projects results to the overall DUT ambitions (WP4);

• Develop and implement a comprehensive C, D & E strategy for the DUT Partnership, establish an effective communication infrastructure and organise promotion and networking events, including two high-level policy conferences (see WP5 and Section 2.2);

• Carry out measures to mobilise and support all stakeholder groups in and across the TPs to engage in the programme and funded projects (WP6);

• Set-up strategic measures to bring research results to policy-making and enhance the impact of the investments and funded projects with focus on valorisation, mainstreaming and replication (WP7);

• Establish cooperation with neighbouring Partnerships, other European and international networks and position the DUT Partnership on an international level (WP8).

Fig. 6: Work plan structure of the DUT Partnership

The DUT work plan, as summarised in Fig. 6, has been designed for the entire Partnership duration. It builds upon activities that have been started in JPI UE already, formats that have been established and tested, but at the same time includes new activities with the ambition to enhance the impact of the joint investments and better support urban transformations. This GA covers the period 2022-2028 of the DUT Partnership and focuses on the implementation of at least two joint calls and all call-related activities of WPs 3, 4 and 5 and implementing the activities of WPs 2, 6, 7 and 8 as well as parts of WP4 and 5 as far as they are programme related for the years 01/2022 to 12/2024. Subsequent joint calls and associated activities beyond this period will be covered under future calls under Horizon Europe calls.

Table 3.1a: List of work packages (WPs)

WP no	WP title	Lead no	Short name	PM	Start month	End month
WP1	Partnership coordination and management	1	BMK	223.7	1	84
WP2	Strategic development of DUT and the TPs	2	FFG	310.5	1	84
WP3	Implementation of co-funded calls	2	FFG	500.8	1	84
WP4	Monitoring of the DUT Partnership, its calls and projects	38.1	FECyT/AEI	88.0	1	84
WP5	Communication, exploitation and dissemination of the Partnership and project results	38.1	FECyT/AEI	281.6	1	84
WP6	Capacity building for the TPs	25	ENEA	103.9	1	36
WP7	Mainstreaming evidence and experiences to Drive Urban Transitions	42.1	ViC/SWEA	191.4	1	36
WP8	Partnering and international cooperation	2	FFG	128.8	1	36
		Total PM		1828.7

Table 3.1f: Summary of staff effort (Associated Partners are marked in green)

No.	Participant	WP1	WP2	WP3	WP4	WP5	WP6	WP7	WP8	Total per partner
1	BMK	20.0	8.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	29.0
2	FFG	76.0	54.0	79.4	14.8	2.5	30.0	6.0	17.0	279.6
3	A-Tech	6.0	22.5	0.0	2.2	9.5	6.7	7.5	3.8	58.2
4	FWO	0.0	0.0	2.3	0.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.6
5	VLO	2.5	5.5	7.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	17.0
6	Innoviris	3.0	3.0	22.4	3.0	1.2	0.0	2.5	1.5	36.6
7	F.R.S.-FNRS	0.5	0.0	3.6	0.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.7
8	BNSF	2.5	4.5	13.0	0.0	5.5	0.0	3.0	6.0	34.5
9	CCDR-N	11.0	1.6	0.0	0.0	1.6	1.0	0.7	3.0	18.9
10	TACR	0.0	0.0	8.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	8.7
11	MPO	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5
12	IFD	1.5	1.5	12.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	4.5	1.5	23.0
13	MKM	0.0	1.0	1.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.0
14	ETAg	0.9	0.2	4.2	0.0	1.4	0.2	0.0	0.1	7.0
15	MEE	1.5	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.0
16	ANR	4.0	6.0	27.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.5	0.0	39.5
17	FZJ-PtJ	9.5	10.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	9.0	30.0	10.0	68.5
18	DLR	0.0	0.0	14.3	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	15.3
19	MiSE	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.5
20	GSRI	1.9	0.7	4.2	1.3	4.5	1.5	1.5	2.1	17.7

21	CERTH	0.0	3.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.5
22	NKFIH	3.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	5.5
22.1	XIA (AE)	0.0	15.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0	17.4
23	Rannis	0.0	0.0	5.3	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	0.0	6.0
24	MUR	2.5	8.5	19.1	3.6	2.5	4.6	0.5	4.5	45.8
25	ENEA	7.5	18.0	0.0	0.0	15.5	25.0	18.0	6.0	90.0
26	LCS	1.5	0.5	4.2	0.0	1.5	1.0	0.0	0.5	9.2
27	LMT	0.0	0.0	3.5	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.5
28	MINBZK	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.5	50.5	0.0	56.0
29	NWO	0.0	4.0	10.4	0.0	0.0	3.5	0.0	4.0	21.9
30	RCN	1.5	0.0	10.5	0.0	3.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	15.5
31	NCBR	10.5	0.0	42.0	0.0	0.0	3.5	0.0	3.0	59.0
32	DGEG	5.5	9.0	0.0	3.5	3.9	3.5	8.0	4.5	37.9
33	FCT	2.9	0.5	11.0	1.5	1.9	0.4	1.2	4.2	23.6
34	DGT	6.0	3.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.5	14.0
35	UEFISCDI	1.5	4.0	41.0	4.5	2.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	56.0
36	MINEDU	3.0	28.0	0.0	0.0	4.0	6.0	5.0	4.0	50.0
37	ARRS	2.5	0.0	5.6	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	8.1
38	AEI	2.0	1.0	39.3	4.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.8	50.6
38.1	FECYT (AE)	0.5	2.0	13.0	40.5	190.5	0.0	0.0	11.5	258.0
39	CDTI	1.0	0.0	15.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	18.0
40	Vinnova	4.5	6.0	14.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	12.0	0.0	36.5
41	Formas	4.5	36.5	12.6	1.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	56.1
42	SWEA	3.5	12.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	4.0	6.0	26.0
42.1	ViC (AE)	1.5	20.5	0.0	0.0	12.5	0.0	26.0	7.0	67.5
43	TUBITAK	4.5	0.0	13.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	6.0	25.5
44	ADEME	0.5	0.9	5.6	0.0	0.5	1.5	2.0	2.0	13.0
45	CCDR-C	1.0	0.0	4.0	0.5	1	0.0	0.0	3.5	10.0
46	FIO	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
Subtotal BEN + AE		214.2	296.3	467.4	88.0	267.6	103.9	190.4	126.0	1753.8
47	KMD (AP)	1.5	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.5
48	DETEC (AP)	0.0	0.8	11.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	12.2
49	Xxxxxxxxxx (AP)	0.0	0.0	12.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	12.0
50	SNSF (AP)	0.0	0.0	2.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0
51	UKRI (AP)	1.0	0.0	8.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	10.0
52	BMBF (AP)	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0
53	BMWe (AP)	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0
54	MTE (AP)	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0
55	MESRI (AP)	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0
56	CEREMA (AP)	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	3.5	0.0	1.0	0.0	4.5
57	ANRT (AP)	0.0	5.0	0.0	0.0	8.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	13.5
58	MCID (AP)	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0
59	ANCT (AP)	0.0	1.4	0.0	0.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	2.8	5.2
60	MEnv (AP)	1.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	2.0
61	BF (AP)	1.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0
Total all partners		223.7	310.5	500.8	88.0	281.6	103.9	191.4	128.8	1828.7

Grant Agreement 1 / 2022-2028

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Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Year 7

WP1 Partnership coordination and management

Task 1.1 Partnership governance and management

MlS2

MlS1

Task 1.2 Financial, legal and administrative management of the GA

D1.1

D1.3

D1.4

D1.5

D1.6

D1.7

D1.8

D1.9

Task 1.3 Widening participation and national coordination

D1.2

WP2 Strategic development of DUT and the transition pathways

Task 2.1 DUT strategy process

D2.1

D2.2

Mls3

D2.3

D2.4

D2.5

D2.6

D2.7

Task 2.2 Strategic development of 15minC TP

Mls4

D2.8

D2.9

Task 2.3 Strategic development of PED TP

D2.10

D2.12

D2.13

D2.11

Task 2.4 Strategic development of CUE TP

Mls5

D2.15

D2.14

Task 2.5 Strategic coordination with the EC and city mission

WP3 Implementation of co-funded calls

Task 3.1 Call management

Mls6

Mls7

Mls8

Mls9

D3.3

D3.4

Task 3.2 Launching and promoting the co-funded calls

D3.1

D3.2

Task 3.3 Eligibility checks and proposal evaluation

Mls10

Mls11

Mls12

Mls13

Task 3.4 Funding decisions / invitation to the second stage

Task 3.5 Improvement of call implementation and funding instruments

Task 3.6 Implementation of the calls on national level

WP4 Monitoring of the DUT partnership, its calls and projects

Task 4.1 Partnership monitoring

D4.1

D4.2

Task 4.2 Project and call monitoring

Mls15

D4.3

D4.4

D4.5

D4.6

Task 4.3 Learning cycle and refinement of OMS and indicators

Mls14

WP5 Communication, dissemination and exploitation of the partnership and projects' results

Task 5.1 DUT strategic communication and promotion

D5.1

D5.2

Mls20

Task 5.2 Establishing and maintaining the DUT communication infrastructure

D5.3

D5.4

Task 5.3 Events communication and support

D5.5

Mls29

Mls18

D5.6

Mls17

Mls30

D5.7

Mls31

Mls32

D5.8

Mls33

Task 5.4 Dissemination and exploitation of project results

D5.9

Mls19

D5.10

D5.11

WP6 Capacity building for transition pathways

Task 6.1 AGORA Stakeholder mobilisation and engagement

Mls21

D6.1

Mls22

Mls23

D6.2

Mls24

Task 6.2 Target group specific empowerment

D6.3

Task 6.3 Urban living labs (ULL)

D6.4

Mls25

WP7 Enhancing policy impact

Task 7.1 Knowledge hubs

D7.1

Task 7.2 Develop and implement a valorisation strategy

D7.3

D7.2

D7.4

Task 7.3 Towards replication and mainstreaming

WP8 Partnering and international cooperation

Task 8.1 Synergies with European urban policy

Mls26

Task 8.2 Synergies with Structural Funds

Task 8.3 Strategic cooperation and joint actions with other European

partnerships

Mls27

Mls28

Task 8.4 International cooperation

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3.2 Budget tables and justifications

Budget table 3.1g: ‘Subcontracting costs’ items.

2 FFG

Cost (€)

Description of tasks and justification

Subcontracting

130,000

T4.2: Budget for further development and maintenance of the existing OMS used as described in T4.2 (adjustments to call specifications). This system was originally was developed under the ERA-NET Cofund Smart Cities & Communities (ENSCC) and is operated by COUNT IT GmbH on behalf of FFG. OMS will stay in the sole ownership of the ENSCC partners which allowed Funding Organisations not involved in the ENSCC action to use it also for the DUT Partnership joint calls without any additional charge. However, it is necessary to maintain and further develop the tool for the type of actions and the dimension of the consortium during the runtime of DUT.

30,000

T5.1: Budget for design of corporate identity and logo (services include research, strategic branding workshop, key brand elements, key messages, tone of voice, design imagery /

illustrations, brand guidelines, landing page 🡪 design and development of materials) of the DUT Partnership.

17 FZJ-PtJ

Cost (€)

Description of tasks and justification

Subcontracting

250,000

T7.2: Budget for implementation of Valorisation Strategy activities under this task, like Showcasing, Competitions and Piloting.

The strategy will directly support and promote sustainable urban transformation. New formats and respective costs for year 1 -3 within T7.2 are to be implemented and decided on within DUT consortium, and the formats discussed at the time are:

Within T7.2.2: two implementation workshops (5k€ each);

Within strain of action “pool and tell” in T7.2.2: Showcasing transformative action in European neighbourhoods through database/website/map and 6 short videos: database 10k€, website 30k€, video (8k€ each);

Within strain of action “connect and inspire” in T7.2.2: Touring exhibition on neighbourhood transformations (per exhibition tour 10k€) with one first tour in year 3;

Within strain of action “compete” within T7.2.3: European competition of neighbourhood transformations: Kick-off Workshop during SDE21 in Wuppertal June 2022 15k€, Competition webpage (20k€), Constitutional (7k€) and two implementation workshops (5k€each), Development of Rules and Regulations and preparation of first Call for Cities with support of Scientific Committee and PR Agency (80k€).

Within T7.2.4 Piloting and Cooperation: Two implementation workshops (5k€ each) are planned with collaboration with

Europan Europe as first piloting.

25 ENEA		Cost (€)	Description of tasks and justification
Subcontracting		25,000	Budget to commission high-professional services in the field of networking implementation under WP6. Although ENEA provides communication and dissemination activities towards several stakeholder types, as well as provides own expertise in networking activities, for the DUT Partnership WP6 an extra contribution is needed from experts who are specialized in strategies to support/animate international networking urban activities to exploit potential synergies according DUT PTs. This will call for a set of appropriate activities to support urban, social and cultural transformations together with local communities, public administration, third sector and corporate, to take care of the production of events and activities with a focus on contemporary languages, inter-culture and inclusion, to carry out processes of community involvement, audience development, co-design and transformation in urban contexts thanks to integrated design tools such as action research, territorial analysis, service design, business modelling, community engagement and partnership building.
Budget table 3.1h: ‘Purchase costs’ items (travel and subsistence, equipment and other goods, works and services
1 BMK		Cost (€)	Description of tasks and justification
Other goods, works and services Total	150,000		Expenses for purchasing services related to general administrative support for the management, secretariat and monitoring of the DUT Partnership.
	150,000		T1.1 and T1.2 Budget for commissioning of legal counsel for procurement tenders;
	300,000

2 FFG		Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence Other goods, works and services		55,200	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international conferences: - WP1: 12 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800 - WP2: 18 travels á €800 for strategic meetings - WP5: 4 travels á €800 for events - WP6: 9 travels á €800 for AGORA events - WP8: 11 travels á €800 - WP8: 6 international travels á €2000 in T8.4
		250,000	WP4: Expert IT support services for the optimization /adaptation and implementation of the Online Project Monitoring System (OMS) to the DUT Partnership. OMS is a tool developed and implemented in part ERA-NETs of JPI Urban Europe , its calls for proposals and funded projects. Such update and optimization will maximize the quality of the procedures and system for collection and analysis of data and indicators set to monitor the planned activities.
		243,000	T6.1: Organisation of 9 AGORA events - 9 x hosting of AGORA events á €12,000 - travel grants for experts: 9 events á €5,000 - event moderation /facilitation: 9 events á 10,000

200,000	T2.1: Support services and advise for strategy process: This will include services purchased for consultation processes, coordination of strategy process, etc.
161,000	T1.1: Budget for hosting 7 Synergies Forum (SF) meetings (=1 meeting p.a.) o 7x20 p.p. travel reimbursement for SF members (€800,- p.p.) o 7x catering and hosting of SF meeting (€7,000,- each)
150,000	T1.2.: Budget for external support services for financial monitoring and reporting of budgets to minimise the risk of double funding due to various Grant Agreements to be concluded for the DUT Partnership.
100,000	T1.1. Internal communication and cooperation platform for document sharing, online collaborative work, separate spaces for WPs, event organisation and management, newsfeed;
12,000	T8.3 External moderation services for 1 workshop including catering and venue
16,000	T8.4 Promotion material, costs for booths, costs for co-hosting of 2 events (á €8,000 each)
20,000	T1.2: Budget for auditor fees for CFS (= 4 CFS á €5,000)
13,000	T1.1: Budget for organisation of one onsite meeting of a governance body
10,000	T2.1: Design of graphic illustrations for the TPs
10,000	T6.1: Expert support and advise for concept development of hybrid AGORA events
5,000	T2.1: Layout and design of 1 booklet
3,500	T2.3: Layout, design and printing of policy paper
1,248,700

4 FWO	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence Other goods, works and Total	8,800	Travel costs for m conferences: - WP1: 9 travels G - WP5: 2 travels á	eetings, workshops, international B, MB etc. meetings á €800 €800 for events
	5,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS
	13,800
7 F.R.S.-FNRS
	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Total	8,800

8 BNSF

Cost (€)

Justification

Travel and subsistence

8,800

Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international conferences:

- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800

- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events

Total

10,000

T8.4 Specific IT software and hardware equipment required to guarantee the security and protection of data and information shared during the organisation of remote/physical or hybrid events with international stakeholders taking place as part of

the implementation of the project.

8,000

6,000

T1.3 Budget for event organisation T2.3 Budget for event organisation T5.3 Budget for event organisation

40,800

9 CCDR-N	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Total	8,800

10 TACR Cost (€) Justification
Travel and subsistence Other goods, works and services Total	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international conferences: - WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800 - WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
	5,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS
	26,800

11 MPO Cost (€) Justification
Travel and subsistence Total	7,200	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international conferences: - WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
	7,200

12 IFD Cost (€) Justification
Travel and subsistence Other goods, works and services Total	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international conferences: - WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800 - WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
	5,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS
	26,800

13 MKM Cost (€) Justification
Travel and subsistence Total	7,200	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international conferences: - WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
	7,200

Equipment

Other goods, works and services

Total

14 ETAg	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Other goods, works and	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services
Total	21,800

15 MEE	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	7,200	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
Other goods, works and	200,000	Contracting of general analytical and scientific services as
services		input to the strategic development of DUT and the Transition
		Pathways as part of the implementation of the project.
Total	207,200

18 DLR	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Other goods, works and	20,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS (= 4 CFS á €5,000)
services
Total	28,800

19 MiSE	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Other goods, works and	20,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS (= 4 CFS á €5,000)
services
Total	28,800

20 GSRI	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Other goods, works and	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services
Total	21,800

21 CERTH	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	10,000	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Total	8,800

22 NKFIH	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Other goods, works and	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services	5,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS
Total	26,800
22.1 XIA
22.1 XIA	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Total	8,800

23 Rannís Cost (€) Justification
Travel and subsistence Total	15,400	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international conferences: - WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €1,400 - WP5: 2 travels á 1,400 for events
	5,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS
	20,400

26 LCS	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Other goods, works and	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services
Total	21,800

27 LMT	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Other goods, works and	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services
Total	21,800

29 NWO	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800 Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international conferences: - WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800 - WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Other goods, works and	13,000		Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services
	5,000		Budget for auditor fees for CFS
Total	26,800

30 RCN	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence		8,800 Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Other goods, works and	13,000		Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services
	5,000		Budget for auditor fees for CFS
Total	26,800

32 DGEG	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Total	8,800

33 FCT	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800 Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international conferences: - WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800 - WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Other goods, works and	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services
Total	21,800

34 DGT	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Total	8,800

35 UEFISCDI Travel and subsistence	Cost (€) Justification
	25,600	2 Call MGT meetings per call: max. 8 pax --> 2 travels p.p.--> 16 travels á €800 = 12,800 x 2 calls = 25,600
	16,000	1 Panel meeting per call (total 2 calls) with max. 10 persons -- > 20x800.- = 16,000
	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, intern. conferences: - WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800

Other goods, works and services Total		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
	273,400	2x PRE-PROPOSAL(1 per call): reimbursement for evaluators (incl. travels): 62.000 (virtual; with travels [33 persons]: 79,250 x 2 calls = 158,500 2x FULL PROPOSAL: 46.200 (virtual; with travels [21 persons]: 57.450) --> 2 calls: 114,900 Assumptions: 150 full proposals, 18 experts (4 per full proposal); fees: 50 EUR per full proposal/expert, 20 EUR per Eval. Summary Report; 400 EUR for 2 days attendance/expert; Chairperson + 2 thematic co-chairs: 6.000 EUR; all virtual (travel costs: additional EUR 500/person; 3 chairpersons: EUR 750/person).
	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
	5,500	Reimbursement to call observer: 2,000 (virtual; with travel: 2,750) x 2 calls = 5,500
	5,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS
	347,300

36 MINEDU	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	12,000	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1:10 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
		- WP8: 3 travels á €800
Other goods, works and	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services
Total	25,000

37 ARRS	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence Other goods, works and services Total	8,800	Travel costs for m conferences: - WP1: 9 travels G - WP5: 2 travels á	eetings, workshops, international B, MB etc. meetings á €800 €800 for events
	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
	21,800

38 AEI	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	14,400	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		-WP4: 3 travels á €8009
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events9
		-WP8: 4 travels á €8009
Other goods, works and	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services	5,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS
Total	32,400

38.1 FECyT	Cost	(€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	58,400 Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international conferences: - WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800 - WP3: 7 travels á €800 -WP4: 3 travels á €800 - WP5:47 travels á €800 for events - WP8: 7 travels á €800
Other goods, works and services	100,000 T5.2: DUT Website (establish and launch, design new functionalities, maintenance, hosting, integration of maps, chat boot, repository for new Partnership website)
	100,000 T5.3: Hosting and organisation of 2 international policy conferences (venue, technical equipment, moderators etc.)
	45,000 T5.2: Social media tools and license fees for IT tools (e.g., Zoom, Insightly (CMR), Mailchimp, Concept board/MURAL)
	36,000 T5.3: Hosting of 2 project meetings (partially onsite): venue, catering, equipment, etc.
	15,000 T.5.3: Costs of coaches, online classes and trainers for projects
	20,000 T5.1: Costs of promo material (design, printing) general and specific target groups
	10,000 T5.4: Cost of videos to showcase project results
	5,000		Budget for auditor fees for CFS
Total	389,400

39 CDTI Cost (€)		Justification
Travel and subsistence Total	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international conferences: - WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800 - WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
	5,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS
	13,800

43 TUBITAK	Cost (€)	Justification
Travel and subsistence	8,800	Travel costs for meetings, workshops, international
		conferences:
		- WP1: 9 travels GB, MB etc. meetings á €800
		- WP5: 2 travels á €800 for events
Other goods, works and	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services	13,000	Budget for meeting organisation of governance bodies
services	5,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS
Total	26,800

46 FIO	Cost (€)	Justification
Other goods, works and services	5,000	Budget for auditor fees for CFS (= 1 CFS á €5,000)
Total	5,000

Budget table 3.1i: ‘ ‘Other costs categories’ items (financial support to third parties)

Justification: The financial support to third parties, as indicated below, represents the contributions provided by the national and regional funding partners plus the calculated EC top-up (where applicable; not applicable to Associated Partners – marked in green).

No	Participant	Country	Financial support to third parties (Actual costs) in EUR
1	BMK	AT	0.00
2	FFG	AT	17 142 857.14
3	A-Tech	AT	0.00
4	FWO	BE	2 000 000.00
5	VLO	BE	0.00
6	Innoviris	BE	2 857 142.86
7	F.R.S.-FNRS	BE	857 142.86
8	BNSF	BG	876 500.00
9	CCDR-N	PT	0.00
10	TACR	CZ	2 285 714.29
11	MPO	CZ	0.00
12	IFD	DK	2 857 142.86
13	MKM	EE	428 571.43
14	ETAg	EE	428 571.43
15	MEE	FI	0.00
16	ANR	FR	8 571 428.57
17	FZJ-PtJ	GE	1 428 571.43
18	DLR	GE	6 000 000.00
19	MiSE	IT	45 714 285.71
20	GSRI	EL	1 428 571.43
21	CERTH	EL	0.00
22	NKFIH	HU	2 857 142.86
22.1	XIA (AE)	HU	0.00
23	Rannis	IS	2 571 428.57
24	MUR	IT	7 714 285.71
25	ENEA	IT	0.00
26	LCS	LV	642 857.14
27	LMT	LT	571 428.57
28	MINBZK	NL	4 285 714.29
29	NWO	NL	4 285 714.29
30	RCN	NO	4 857 142.86
31	NCBR	PL	4 082 857.14
32	DGEG	PT	0.00
33	FCT	PT	1 428 571.43
34	DGT	PT	0.00
35	UEFISCDI	RO	2 857 142.86
36	MINEDU	SK	0.00
37	ARRS	SI	857 142.86
38	AEI	ES	2 857 142.86
38.1	FECYT (AE)	ES	0.00
39	CDTI	ES	3 428 571.43
40	Vinnova	SE	2 428 571.43
41	Formas	SE	4 285 714.29
42	SWEA	SE	2 000 000.00
42.1	ViC (AE)	SE	0.00
43	TUBITAK	TR	2 857 142.86
44	ADEME	FR	4 285 714.29
45	CCDR-C	PO	1 428 571.43
46	FIO	BE	2 285 714.29
47	KMD (AP)	NO	0.00
48	DETEC (AP)	CH	2 200 000.00
49	Innosuisse (AP)	CH	5 000 000.00

50	SNSF (AP)	CH	1 200 000.00
51	UKRI (AP)	UK	0.00
52	BMBF (AP)	GE	0.00
53	BMWe (AP)	GE	0.00
54	MTE (AP)	FR	0.00
55	MESRI (AP)	FR	0.00
56	CEREMA (AP)	FR	0.00
57	ANRT (AP)	FR	0.00
58	MCID (AP)	RO	0.00
59	ANCT (AP)	FR	0.00
60	MEnv (AP)	FI	0.00
61	BF (AP)	FI	0.00

Budget table 3.1j: ‘In-kind contributions’ provided by third parties

This table concerns non-financial resources made available free of charge by third parties that are declared by the partners as eligible direct costs in the corresponding cost category (personnel costs).

24 MUR Third party name
24 MUR Third party name	Category	Cost (€)	Justification
25 ENEA (beneficiary)	Seconded personnel	32,864	[XXXX XXXXXXX* ] will be involved in the activities related to partnership coordination and management (WP1), strategic development of DUT and the transition pathways (WP2), call management and call implementation (WP3), monitoring (WP4): Efforts per WP: WP1: 2.1 PM WP2: 0.7 PM WP3: 1.4 PM WP4: 1.0 PM * Personnel employed by an administration and seconded to a new administration according to art.56 of the Civil Servants Act (Presidential Decree 3/1957), to which they report from an organizational-functional profile, and from a hierarchical and disciplinary one. Seconded personnel works exclusively for the new administration to which they are seconded.
25 ENEA (beneficiary)	Seconded personnel	23,370	[XXXXX XXXXXXX XXXXXX* ] will be involved in the activities related to call management (WP3), monitoring (WP4), communication and dissemination (WP5), capacity building and stakeholder mobilization (WP6), enhancing policy impact (WP7), synergies with Structural Funds (WP8): Efforts per WP: WP3: 1.4 PM WP4: 0.8 PM WP5: 1.5 PM WP7: 0.5 PM WP8: 1.5 PM * Personnel employed by an administration and seconded to a new administration according to art.56 of the Civil Servants Act (Presidential Decree 3/1957), to which they report from an organizational-functional profile, and from a hierarchical and disciplinary one. Seconded personnel works exclusively for the new administration to which they are seconded.
UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO (UNIPA) (third party)	Seconded personnel	35,600	[XXXXXXXX XXXX XXXXXXXXXXX ] will be involved in the activities related to the Strategic development of DUT and the TPs (WP2) and Capacity building (WP6). Efforts per WP: WP2: 3 PM WP6: 1 PM

UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO (UNIPA)

(third party)

Seconded personnel

26,220

[XXXXXXX XXXXX ] will be involved in the activities related to the Strategic development of DUT and the TPs (WP2), and Capacity building (WP6).

Efforts per WP: WP2: 3 PM

WP6: 1.6 PM

28 MINBZK

Third party name

Category Cost (€)

Justification

Platform 31

Seconded personnel

539,190

Platform 31 is a Dutch knowledge institute that covers a wide array of topics in which it develops activities, sets up research and supports knowledge dissemination to municipalities, regions, housing corporations, citizens and other stakeholders.

It is proposed that Platform 31 will provide work in, and knowledge and expertise for the Tasks:

T6.3 (3.5PM), T7.1 (10 PM), T7.2 (7 PM), T7.3 (33.5 PM).

Total work amounts to approximately 54 PM: Average cost PM: EUR 9985,00

36 MINEDU Third party name
36 MINEDU Third party name	Category	Cost (€)	Justification
University of Žilina	Seconded	Total:	University of Žilina (UNIZA) with its more than sixty-five
(UNIZA)	personn.	100,550	years of history belongs to one of the leading educational and
			scientific institutions in Slovakia. The partnership will be
			supported by the Department of International Research
			Projects – ERAdiate+, which has been established as a follow
			up of the successfully finished FP7 ERA Chair project
			ERAdiate - Enhancing Research and innovAtion dimension
			of the University of Zilina in intelligent transport systems.
			The main objective of ERAdiate+ is to stimulate UNIZA
			research potential in UNIZA strategic R&I areas, in
			particular sustainable, green and intelligent mobility.
			UNIZA will provide work, knowledge and expertise for the
			following work packages/tasks:
			WP1: 1,5 PM,
			WP2: 8 PM,
			WP5: 4PM,
			WP7 : 5PM – total 18.5PM
	Seconded	Subtotal	Xxxx Xxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx will be involved in the activities
	personnel	[43,550]	related to:
	1		T.1.1: 1.5 PM
			T7.1: 5 PM
			Average cost PM: 6,700EUR
	Seconded	Subtotal	Dr. Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxxx will be involved in the activities
	personnel	[30,000]	related to:
	2		T2.2: 2 PM
			T5.4: 4 PM
			Average cost PM: 5,000 EUR
	Seconded	Subtotal	Dr. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx will be involved in the activities related
	personnel	[27,000]	to:
	3		T2.5: 6 PM
			Average cost PM: 4,500 EUR
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU)	Seconded personn.	Total: 18,750	The Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava (STU) is a research and higher education institution. STU offers education in technical fields and involves students in research in natural sciences, computer sciences, construction, architecture, materials technologies, chemistry and food

technologies. The partnership will be supported by the Faculty of Civil Engineering of STU.

STU will provide work, knowledge and expertise for the following work packages/tasks:

WP2 : 7PM

Seconded personnel 1

Seconded personnel 2

Subtotal [12,000]

Subtotal [6,750]

Dr. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxxxx will be involved in the activities related to:

Efforts per WP:

T2.4: 4 PM

Average cost PM: 3,000 EUR

Dr. Xxxxxx Xxxxxx will be involved in the activities related to:

T2.3: 3 PM

Average cost PM: 2,250 EUR

University of Economics (EUBA)

Seconded personn.

Total: 62,340

University of Economics (EUBA) currently represents the biggest university in Slovakia which provides complex and integral education in economic and management study programmes at all levels of study. The aim of the UE in Bratislava is to be perceived and recognized as quality, modern research university with international direction which reflects social responsibility

and prepares graduates able to react on the challenges of globalization. EUBA has been AACSB accredited what ranks her amongst 6% best business and management universities in the world.

EUBA will provide work, knowledge and expertise for the following work packages/tasks:

WP2 : 13PM - T2.3: 6 PM, T2.4: 7 PM WP6 : 6PM - T6.3 6 PM,

WP8 : 4PM - T8.3 4PM

Seconded personnel 1

Seconded personnel 2

Seconded personnel 3

Subtotal [33,000]

Subtotal [18,000]

Subtotal [11,340]

Assoc. Xxxx. Xxxxx Xxxxxxxxx will be involved in the activities related to:

WP2: 5 PM

WP6: 2 PM

WP8: 4 PM

Average cost PM: 3,000 EUR

Assoc. Xxxx. Xxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxx will be involved in the activities related to:

WP2: 4 PM

WP6: 2 PM

Average cost PM: 3,000 EUR

Dr. Xxxx Xxxxxxxxxx will be involved in the activities related to:

WP2: 4 PM

WP6: 2 PM

Average cost PM: 1,890 EUR

44 ADEME

Third party name

3.3 Capacity of participants and consortium as a whole

3.3.1 DUT consortium

The DUT Partnership is coordinated by the Austrian Ministry for Climate Action (BMK; Coordinator). As a public body the coordinator opts to grant (under art.7) an authorisation to administer to the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), which is legally and financially controlled by the coordinator. This authorisation refers to the coordinator’s tasks of informing the granting authority about the payments made to the other beneficiaries and distributing the payments received from the granting authority to the other beneficiaries without unjustified delay. FFG itself participates in the Partnership as a beneficiary taking over additional task in all WPs. FFG will further act as Scientific Coordinator (CEO) of the Partnership and, as such, take over non- administrative coordination tasks.

Composition of consortium

The consortium is composed of 64 partners from 27 countries that bring together the different competences, expertise and capacities needed in order to implement a comprehensive transformative R&I programme on urban transitions. Accordingly, the consortium comprises the following kinds of partners:

• National and regional programme owners and funding agencies, committed to create and implement a joint R&I programme, advance the funding instruments towards transformative urban R&I, co-fund and implement joint calls and co-design measures for capacity building and impact creation;

• National or regional authorities and agencies dealing with urban transformation or related sectoral matters, committed to connect and align the DUT priorities and activities to local, regional and national strategies, support mobilisation of local actors, uptake of results in policy-making and impact creation;

• Research performing and other organisations with comprehensive experiences in the DUT thematics or transformative R&I policy, mandated by the national authorities to provide capacities for the operational development of the DUT TPs and the development and implementation of dedicated formats, instruments and actions of the programme management. At the same time these organisations – if interested in applying for projects – will not be involved in the development of the joint calls (WP3);

With partners from 27 European countries, thereof 13 Widening Countries and 4 ACs (IS, NO, UK, TR) and 1 Third Country (CH), the consortium is geographically well balanced and able to consider and address urban needs and situations across Europe. Efforts to widen participation in Europe and internationally will be carried out (see T1.3 and T8.3).

The majority of the partners have a vast experience in managing and cooperating in transnational R&I programmes within the EU, as well as with partners outside the EU. Moreover, many of DUT partners, have been cooperating in JPI UE for several years, including in the ERA-NET Cofunds associated to the JPI UE (ENSCC, ENSUF, EN-SUGI in cooperation with the Belmont Forum, EN-UAC, EN-UTC), and several non- cofunded calls, like the two pilot calls with the Chinese research agency NSFC (Making Cities Work, Sustainable and Liveable Cities and Urban Areas), the Urban Migration Call, and the PED Pilot Call. In addition, in cooperation with the SET Plan Action 3.2 Smart Citieslii, a new programme on PEDs has been developed and its implementation has started in 2019. As all these calls and programme management activities have been set - up with strong emphasis on inter- and transdisciplinary R&I, the partners gained substantial experience regarding the conditions and requirements of related funding instruments, call conditions, project portfolio management, community building, stakeholder involvement, as well as communication and dissemination. Many of these funding organisations have also gained comprehensive experience in open science practice or inclusion of gender dimensions in call topics, as well as call conditions. Already in the recent ERA-NET EN- UTC, high-emphasis has been given to gender and open science aspects which provides an important reference to the DUT calls.

Compared to JPI UE and its ERA-NETs, additional national and regional authorities, agencies and organisations have joined the DUT consortium. This not only widens the opportunities for engaging stakeholders in joint actions, but also strengthens the link to sectoral and urban policies and national community building . Experiences of the PED Programme show the importance to engage these national policy-makers and authorities well in the transnational priority setting. Accordingly, this approach is used for all DUT TPs.

Finally, experienced management capacities are required to coordinate the strategic and thematic development of the Partnership and its activities. As public authorities usually lack such capacities, dedicated organisations have been mandated to provide these and take responsibility for specific programme management actions, such as the communication strategy, coordination of the three DUT TPs, support to community building, synthesis of project results, etc. In JPI UE, such an approach allowed to professionalise the management and establish a team for the strategic and operational management, which was mainly hosted by FFG is now enhanced in DUT. This is complemented by the call secretariat (CS), which is a joint effort coordinated by FFG, ANR, UEFISCDI and Formas. DUT will build upon these experiences, established infrastructures, instruments, management and governance. At the same time, the new partners can take advantage of existing formats, guidelines, references and expertise, while contributing with their own approaches to the further development of DUT and its activities. To ensure an open and transparent programme, open science practices will be upheld, also in terms of involving new interested partners in the various governance bodies and activities of DUT. As laid out in 1.2 and 2.2, the consortium is committed to make information and results widely available and align with potential new partners , whenever possible. The consortium shows already a good gender balance, the DUT CEO is female; 5 out of 8 WP leaders are female, as well as 4 out of additional 8 Task Leaders.

Capacities to go beyond joint calls and enhance impact of joint investments

As indicated above, the given consortium composition does not only provide the competences to develop a joint R&I agenda and implement the joint calls, but also to implement a series of strategic activities that will allow to enhance the impact of the investments. Such activities include connecting the joint activities to national strategies and actions and intensifying efforts to build capacities on local, regional and national level for urban transformations. While the joint calls and funded R&I projects represent the backbone of the Partnership, the engagement of the partners in the additional activities allows to create added-value. In particular, the capacities that will be established allow a longer-term development of the pathway strategies, improvement of funding schemes and delivery of measures to innovate R&I policies and instruments. In order to deliver policy and societal impact research results and evidence will be translated to support policy-making, various stakeholder groups will be mobilised, cooperation with other initiatives will be established and new dissemination, valorisation and exploitation formats will be designed and implemented.

Alignment and collaboration with Member States / Associated Countries

Urban transformation requires place-based approaches and the consideration of local context and urban situations. Thus, a programme that wants to drive urban transitions, must connect well to local, regional and national strategies and policies. The DUT consortium wants to ensure this through the following:

• Have all partners well informed and involved in the decision-making process and strategic development of the DUT Partnership and its TPs (T1.2 and WP2, see also Section 3.2.2);

• Involve sectoral and regional authorities as partners in the consortium and the development of the TP to connect well to their strategies and increase commitment for joint actions;

• Facilitate regular national/regional consultations to co-design the DUT priorities and activities (WP2);

• Establish national coordination mechanisms in the participating countries, to support mobilisation of stakeholders and uptake of results into local and national policies (T1.3);

• Continue to investigate synergies with Structural Funds and the involvement of regional authorities as part of the DUT work plan (T8.2).

In addition to the commitments indicated in the budget table, APs 48-51, which are also funding partners, will contribute financially to the implementation.

Collaboration with other networks and initiatives

To achieve the objectives and impacts of the DUT Partnership, a close cooperation with stakeholder networks is envisaged. The contribution of partners and organisations representing the various stakeholder groups is seen as key to ensure that the R&I priorities meet the practitioners’ needs and the DUT activities create highest impact. The cooperation is also a mean to avoid duplication of efforts and overcome potential silo practices in urban development related policy.

The cooperation with other European Partnerships is already described in 1.1.6. Thus, focus is given here to other networks and initiatives on European and international level, in particular:

• City and regional authority networks, like Eurocities, ERRIN, ICLEI, CEMR, the Covenant of Mayors, CIVITAS, Polis, METREX - The Network of European Metropolitan Regions and Areas;

• Partnerships of the Urban Agenda for the EU or future UAEU implementation structures;

• The City Science Initiative (CSI), which aims to better connect research and city administration and achieve a better utilisation of research for sustainable urban development;

• The Community of Practice, initiated by the EC and led by JRC and DG REGIO;

• Networks and associations of urban planners, business and industry, e.g., ISOCARP, ECTP,

• Civil society organisations;

• Research networks, such as EERA Joint Programme Smart Cities and the JPI Urban Europe Research Alliance (UERA), ESPON, relevant COST actions;

• International organisations like the Belmont Forum, Mission Innovation, UN-Habitat, UNESCO.

Cooperation with these networks aims at contributing to the identification of key issues and R&I priorities and the strategic development of the DUT TPs, mobilisation of stakeholders, dissemination and exploitation of research results among the various target groups, as well as offering evidence for the stakeholder networks’ own policies and activities. In particular, the following measures will be taken to strengthen the relationship and establish regular collaboration:

(1) Invite these networks to become members in the DUT Synergies Forum, to ensure regular exchange on urban transformations and upcoming needs of cities, business and civic society (T2.1). Letters of Intent have already been provided by several of these initiatives (see Exhibit 3).

(2) Explore opportunities of these networks to engage in specific activities of one or more of the TPs, e.g., in mapping exercises, stakeholder dialogues or synthesis.

(3) Invite city networks to nominate cities for the City Panels and help mobilising urban actors (WP2) .

(4) Decide upon joint actions, like co-organisation of events, dissemination of results through the network’s communication channels, uptake of results in policy-making (WPs 5, 6, 7).

In addition, cooperation opportunities with key projects funded in Horizon 2020 , Horizon Europe and the European CNC mission programme will be investigated to involve them in capacity building.

Type and role of partners in the DUT Partnership – contributions and complementarity

Fig. 8: Types of partners in the DUT Partnership.

As indicated in the consortium description, the DUT consortium is mainly composed of public authorities and public funders. Fig. 8 shows the overall composition and complementarity of the DUT partners. Table 12 summarises the competences and complementarities of the WP leads, exemplifying the competences of the entire consortium to implement the DUT programme.

To achieve urban transformation requires commitments and actions from all stakeholder groups and on all governance levels. It is not only a matter of high-level policy-making of a few, but local actions of many. In this regard the co-design, mainstreaming, uptake of new solutions and approaches is not only driven by European level organisations or networks representing the various stakeholders, but requires

awareness raising, capacity building and engagement of as many municipalities, city authorities, local actors and initiatives, as possible. As this plurality of actors can hardly be included in the consortium directly, DUT follows a threefold strategy to ensure that these actors can engage according to their abilities and capacities:

(1) Cooperation with European level networks and representations of cities and other stakeholder groups in the DUT Synergies Forum, as indicated above, to ensure strategic alignment and foster joint actions and transformative policy making on a European to a regional policy level (T2.1);

(2) Capacity building on national and regional level through national coordination mechanisms and national/regional community building to support national priority setting, according to local and regional needs, and create a national innovation eco-system for urban transitions (T1.3);

(3) The AGORA – an open platform providing low-threshold formats for all stakeholders across Europe and internationally to support exchange and learning among stakeholders from cities, towns and urban areas all across Europe and beyond, discuss the diverse urban needs and situations and reflect on new approaches and research results (T6.1).

Table 13 summarizes the main expertise/infrastructure of the consortium partners.

Table 12: Overview of experiences, competences and complementarity of DUT WP leads.

WP lead	Experiences and activities related to DUT	Competences and complementarity
BMK WP1	The Austrian Ministry for Climate Action is programme owner of several DUT-related, national mission-oriented R&I programmes; initiated JPI UE in 2008 and chaired the Governing Board for 8 years. The DUT coordinator also coordinated the ENSCC and is chair of the PED Programme.	Long-term experiences in mission- oriented R&I programmes, as well as in transnational R&I programming; responsible for the CNC mission in Austria, policy relationships on EU and international level
FFG WP2 WP3 WP8	The Austrian funding agency for applied R&I has 2 teams experienced in (1) call implementation and (2) JPI UE management (Chair of the JPI UE Management Board); participated in all joint calls; hosts the OMS for JPI UE; scientific coordinator of CSAs BOOST, EXPAND I and EXPAND II; Programme manager for PED Programme; stakeholder involvement officer.	Long-term experiences and infrastructure to manage joint calls, as well as develop and implement a transnational R&I programme; established relationships to EC, other partnerships, networks and urban policy; multi-stakeholder cooperation; a cross-department team in place to coordinate and implement the DUT work plan.
FECyT WP4 WP5	The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology aims to strengthen the link between science and society, through actions that promote open and inclusive science, scientific culture; supports the AEI (Spanish State Research Agency) in the management of many ERA-NETs and Cofund Actions.	FECyT’s core area of expertise is the promotion of scientific research and the dissemination and communication of R&I results. FECYT has developed and implemented communication and dissemination strategies and materials in a wide array of projects.
ENEA WP6	The Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development; Vice-Chair of JPI UE and PED Programme; National Delegate SEP Plan Action 3.2, partner in the CSAs BOOST, EXPAND I and EXPAND II.	Engaged in strategic development of JPI UE since the beginning; concept development for national coordination and alignment; mobilisation of national and regional actors for capacity building.
ViC WP7	Strategic innovation programmes for climate neutral cities in Sweden; member of the CNC Mission Board; implementation of national climate city contracts and funding programmes for Swedish cities; engagement in PED Programme.	Experience in and support measures for cities for urban transformations; national instruments in place for city mission implementation; cooperation with cities to drive change.

Table 12 shows the WP leads as they actually are, having WP4 and WP5 lead by FECyT and WP7 lead by ViC. As FECyT and ViC are Affiliated Entities they cannot yet be indicated as WP due to technical issues in the EC grant management system. Therefore, in Annex 1 - Part A Beneficiary 38 AEI was indicated as WP lead instead of its Affiliated Entity 38.1 FECyT; likewise Beneficiary 42 SWEA was indicated as WP lead instead of its Affiliated Entity 42.1 ViC. This will be adjusted after the next update of the EC grant management system.

Table 13: Summary of the DUT consortium partners expertise/infrastructure.

Name of legal entity

Main contribution Expertise / infrastructure

P1 / Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK)

Coordinator

BMK will act as the coordinator of the DUT Partnership and will be mainly

involved in WP1 and WP2.

The Austrian Ministry for Climate Action is the largest funder of R&I in Austria. With a series of programmes on applied R&I it covers a wide range of technologies, from ICT and industrial technologies to transport & mobility and energy &

environmental technologies. The ministry acts as programme owner and commissions funding agencies, such as the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), to nage those programmes.

BMK has broad experience in the coordination of R&I research projects, inter alia, of ERA-NET Cofunds (e.g., ENSCC – ERA-Net Smart Cities and Communities)

Name of legal entity

P2 / Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG)

Scientific Coordinator / CEO

Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

FFG will take over the lead in WP2, WP3 and WP8. In addition, FFG will take the lead of T1.1, T1.3, T61 and T8.3. FFG will act as scientific coordinator (CEO) of the DUT Partnership and as such support BMK in all matters necessary. FFG has

been granted an authorisation to administer on behalf of the Coordinator (BMK).

The Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) is the national funding agency for industrial research and development in Austria. As a "one-stop shop" offering a diversified and targeted programme portfolio, FFG gives Austrian businesses and research facilities access to research funding. FFG is owned by the Republic of Austria, represented by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation and Technology (BMK) and the Federal Ministry of Digital and Economic Affairs (BMDW). As a provider of funding services, however, FFG also works for other national and international institutions. As a national funding agency for applied research, FFG operates a total national budget worth more than 500 M€.

FFG has comprehensive experience in international cooperation and

implementation/coordination of ERA-NETs and transnational joint calls. It has had a leading role in JPI UE for many years.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P3 / AustriaTech – Gesellschaft des Bundes für technologiepolitische Maßnahmen GmbH (A-Tech)

WP2 – Lead of T2.2 Strategic development of 15-minute City transition pathway:

• Thematic coordination for the 15minC TP and involvement of content-related feedback from the DUT partners

• Representation of BMK in administrative tasks and presentation of inputs for relevant topics on national innovation policy

• Co-creation on call topics and support in stakeholder coordination and structuring of inputs

• Continuation and development of new co-creation formats, such as 15minC Working Group, AGORA Dialogue, EN-UAC Knowledge Hub and City Focus Group / City Panel

• Coordinative and strategic role in content-related outputs on the 15-minute City focus – such as Policy Briefs, mappings of projects, initiatives and indicators

• Co-develop new involvement and valuation formats, such as the Urban Doers Grant

• Supportive role in dissemination activities, events and conferences

A-Tech is the specialised agency of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action (BMK) for innovation in the mobility sector. As such it has conducted numerous research projects in the field of novel mobility concepts and offers, guided innovation and networking processes and offered support on policy matters in the mobility sector for the Ministry

So far, A-Tech has coordinated and structured the content development and stakeholder engagement for the 15minC TOP of the DUT Partnership and will keep fulfilling this role in the proposal and implementation phases.

The agency plays a key role and has been commissioned by BMK for the national implementation process, “Fit4UrbanMission”, in support of the EU-Mission

“Climate Neutral and Smart Cities”. In this process, nine Austrian cities have received funding from the national R&I programme “City of Tomorrow” in order to

prepare for and co-create a possible participation in the Cities Mission of Horizon Europe.

A-Tech has supported BMK’s national RTI-strategy for mobility 2040, which provides a comprehensive framework for mission-oriented research and innovation funding in the dedicated mission field “Cities”.

Name of legal entity Main contribution Expertise / infrastructure

P4 / Research Foundation Flanders (FWO)

The FWO will participate in WP3.

The FWO has been participating in a multitude of H2020 ERA-NETs up to now. Our participation is mostly limited to the actual funding of our national/regional research community, besides the administrative basic modalities for participation, e.g.: verifying call docs, eligibility check, acting as national contact point, providing input for deliverables, etc.

Additionally, the FWO has the required experience with project funding due to its management of application rounds for projects, fellowships and mobility grants on a yearly basis and, as already mentioned, also the participation in a multitude of

past and current joint ERA and EJP calls.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P5 / Vlaams Gewest (VLO)

Vlaams Gewest (VLO) is represented in the DUT Partnership by three different entities: EWI, VLAIO and DOMG.

VLO is planning to provide input into several tasks during Year 1 of the DUT Partnership. Regarding WP1, we will actively participate and contribute to the GB meetings and the SG meetings of all the TPs and develop a regional network of stakeholders. Based on the research experience DOMG has in (1) the academic literature on transition methodology in general and (2) the three main TPs in particular we will be able to significantly contribute to the strategic development of the three TPs as set out in WP2. In WP3 VLAIO will support the development, promotion, managing and follow-up of the annual joint transnational calls for research and innovation.

We are perfectly situated to form the science-policy interface having direct contact with policy makers as well as scientists. This position will give us the opportunity to contribute to the development of knowledge hubs as foreseen in WP7.

The Department of Environment and Spatial Development (DOMG) is an ambitious organisation devoted to meeting environmental and climate targets and a sustainable use of natural resources and space with the aim of a low carbon, energy-efficient, climate intelligent living environment with a strong relationship between economy and ecology. Specifically for the DUT Partnership our thematic experience with climate & energy research, our physical environment and spatial development concepts gives us the background to provide solid input. As a Spatial Development Department we have extensive knowledge on integrated approaches where several grand challenges come together in spatial entities ranging from neighbourhoods, over cities to regions and countries. Moreover, the results of the DUT Partnership will directly contribute to the policy making within our Department.

Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) was established by the Flemish Government in January 2016 by merging IWT, the agency for Innovation by Science and Technology and OA, the agency for Entrepreneurship. Since innovation policy is a regional matter in Belgium, VLAIO is the key organisation to support, promote and coordinate R&D and innovation in Flanders.

The Department of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI) supports the Flemish minister for Economy, Innovation, Work, Social Economy and Agriculture, with the preparation, coordination, monitoring and evaluation of the entrepreneurship, science and innovation policies of the government of Flanders. EWI will act as the main administrative contact point (and LEAR) for the Flemish public administration

and will take care of the overall policy coordination within the Flemish public

administration regarding the DUT Partnership. Hence, XXX has a very limited role in this Partnership and the EWI time spent is not charged to the Partnership.

Name of legal entity	P6 / The Brussels Institute for Research and Innovation (Innoviris)
Main contribution	Innovirs will mainly engage in
	WP1 - T1.1, T1.3
	WP2 - T2.2
	WP3 - T3.1.2, T3.1.3, T3.2
	WP5 - T5.2.2, T5.2.4
	WP7 - T7.3
	WP8 - T8.3
Expertise / infrastructure	Innoviris - the Brussels Institute for Research and Innovation - is the regional RDI
	agency founded in 2003 by the Government of the Brussels Capital Region. The
	agency implements the RDI policy of the regional Minister of Research and
	Innovation and offers support and funding to help universities, research centers,
	private companies, local authorities, public sector, and non-economic actors in
	developing new products and services. Innoviris finances the projects in few prior
	regional investment sectors as green technologies, ICT, e-health, green
	technologies. As regional administration in charge of innovation, Innoviris is
	contributing to the regional RDI policy making process (at local, national and
	European level) and works alongside with other RDI regional partners.
	The agency manages up to 52 M€ of funding divided into several schemes and
	employs 60 persons. Innoviris participates in the following EU programs- AAL II,
	EUROSTARS, EUREKA, ECSEL, JPI UE (5 ERA NET Cofunds schemes and
	Innovation action “Making Cities Work” and PEDs)

Name of legal entity Main contribution Expertise / infrastructure

P6 / Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique (F.R.S.-FNRS)

Participation in calls for research projects (WP3)

The mission of the Scientific Research Fund - FNRS is to develop basic scientific research within the framework of initiatives presented by researchers. It promotes the production and development of knowledge by supporting, on the one hand, individual researchers and, on the other hand, by funding research programs carried out in laboratories and services located mainly in the universities of the Federation. Wallonia-Brussels. Based on the sole criterion of scientific excellence, the financial support of the F.R.S.-FNRS is provided in several ways:

- the temporary or permanent remuneration of individual researchers,

- funding of research teams,

- participation in international networks and programs,

- the allocation of scholarships and credits to promote scientific exchanges,

- the awarding of scientific prizes.

The F.R.S.-FNRS is also responsible for promoting to researchers European R&I

programs in which the Wallonia-Brussels Federation participates, and supporting researchers for participation in these programs.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P8 / Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF)

T2.1: JPI Urban Europe missions to Widening Countries

Task 2.2: Case studies on the use of ESIF to participate in JPI UE T3.1 Models for national coordination

T3.2 AGORA

T3.3: Further develop the existing Europe-wide urban research community T4.2: Widen the participation of national funding agencies and R&I

programmes towards challenge-driven instruments

The Bulgarian National Science Fund (BNSF) is a public entity affiliated to the Ministry of Education and Science, which supports projects and activities that promote research in universities and research institutions in compliance with the

National Strategy of Promotion of Science. The Bulgarian Science Fund organizes

regular calls for research projects and projects for bilateral cooperation with the support from the state budget. In addition, the Fund participates in multilateral or European programs or projects. Currently the Fund participates in 7 ERA-Net programs, supported by the Horizon 2020 programme of the EU. Website (in Bulgarian): xxx.xxx.xx

Name of legal entity

P9 / Norte Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR-N)

Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

CCDR-N will participate in WP1-T1.1, T1.3

WP8-T8.2

Additionally, CCDR-N will participate with a lower level of involvement in WP4, WP5 and WP7;

CCDR-N has also a longstanding tradition in the management of programmes funded by the EU, as well as other financing instruments intended to promote regional development. It has been managing the Regional Operational Programme (ROP) for more than 30 years, a task which involves complex multilevel models of governance, thousands of beneficiaries and more than 100 members taking part of the monitoring committees. Under the Norte ROP (2014-2020), CCDR-Norte presently ensures with recognized efficiency a management structure that aggregates nearly two dozen of intermediate bodies having management functions. In the next programming period, CCDR-N will continue to manage the ROP (2021-2027). This programme will continue to put great emphasis on sustainable urban development. In sum, the experience of CCDR-N in the development and implementation of regional policies, along with its role as a Managing Authority are key to carry out

the proposed tasks.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P10 / Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TAČR)

TA CR will take part in 3 types of activities: standard activities such as participating at joint calls, T 3.1.1 Establishment of the list of evaluators and scientific evaluation panel, T3.1.2 Eligibility check, evaluation and communication with applicants and

T5.2 Project meetings and support to knowledge sharing among projects.

TA CR was a member of the several ERA-NET Cofund consortiums and have joined numerous respective open calls. The organisation has already undertaken

the role of a member of the proposal-drafting group, a member of the call secretariat, a WP leader, and the leader of several tasks in the work programme.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P11 / Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic (MPO)

The Ministry of Industry and Trade will provide strategic and expert support to the Technology Agency (TAČR) and will, therefore, participate in the Partnership

mainly in WP2 and T8.4 „International cooperation“.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade is the central body of the Czech government administration involved in, among others,

• the National Industry Policy, the Energy Policy, the Trade Policy in the context of the European Common Market, the Export Promotion Policy, the Integrated Raw Materials Policy and the Use of Mineral Resources;

• Industrial research, engineering and technology development; MPO provides continuous support to the Czech Technology Agency.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Innovation Fund Denmark (IFD)

WP1, T 1.1 Partnership Governance and management (primarily meetings) WP2, T 2.1 DUT Strategy Process

WP3, T3.1 Call management, primarily 3.1.3 WP3, T3.6 Implementation on national level WP6, T6.3 Urban Living Labs

WP7, IFD will act as lead of T7.1 Knowledge Hubs

WP8, T8.3 Cooperation with other Partnerships

IFD are actively represented in more than 50 international Partnerships from FP7 and Horizon Europe and are active in more than 10 calls every year. IFD is actively represented in 9 of the 14 partnerships in the first wave of Horizon Europe.

Our staff are both highly skilled in international engagement on a general level and have technical expertise within the thematic of the Partnerships. We coordinate on a national level with other relevant stakeholders.

Expertise / infrastructure

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P13 / Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications (MKM)

MKM will contribute to the following activities:

T2.1 Strategic development and coordination of DUT TPs T3.6 Call management on national level

T5.1 DUT communication and promotion

T5.3 Project meetings and support to knowledge sharing among projects

The main strategic objectives of MKM involve governance that encourages entrepreneurship and innovation, an efficient and safe transport system, constantly developing information society and environmentally friendly energy supply at a

justified price.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P14 / Estonian Research Council (ETAg)

In Year 1 of the Partnership, Estonian Research Council will mainly contribute to the following activities:

T3.6 Implementation of the calls at national level. T5.1 DUT strategic communication and promotion.

ETAg is a research funding organisation with the main goal to support the most promising high-level science excellency research initiatives in all fields of basic and applied research including humanities and social sciences and to use state budget appropriations to award peer-reviewed research grants on a competitive basis.Council facilitates Estonian researchers' international collaboration. Estonian Research Council is responsible for cooperation with Science Europe, participation in Article 185 (BONUS), ERA-NETs (BiodivERsA, ENUTC, M- XXX.Xxx 2, NORFACE, WaterWorks, TRANSCAN 2 etc.), and international bi- and multinational cooperation programmes. It has acted as a National Contact Point (NCP) in Framework Programmes and acts as the NCP in Horizon Europe,

coordinates participation in the COST network and offers counselling of mobile researchers through the EURAXESS network.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P15 /Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment (MEE), Finland

XXX xxxx, as associated partner, participate in the drafting of national guidelines and coordination of DUT and prepare the launch of the DUT in Finland in collaboration with Business Finland and MEnv. MEE will link the overall DUT, as well as more specific targets to the 1) overall urban policy priorities nationally, 2) fit DUT as part of the portfolio of different vehicles in relation to urban development and 3) connect

DUT to the cities’ networks, e.g., cities developing innovation ecosystems.

XXX has the experience (as well as the role) on overall coordination of urban policies in Finland, close links to research (especially applied), research networks and individual institutions. MEE has a longstanding knowledge on the utilization of

research in the field of urban transition processes and policies.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

P16 / French National Research Agency (ANR)

The main (sub)tasks of which ANR will be in charge as leader are related to the call implementation (WP3) and are the following:

• T3.1.3

• T3.3, T 3.3.2

• T3.4, T3.4.1, T3.4.2, T3.4.3

The implementation of project evaluation and selection procedures are at the heart of the ANR's competencies.

The French funding agency has been (co)secretariat of many ERA-NET co- funded calls for proposals.

In direct relation with the JPI UE, ANR was (co)secretariat of the co-funded call of the ERA-NET EN-UAC (Urban Accessibility and Connectivity). It has defined a process to prepare the call text and she ensured the whole coherence and consistency of it, it carried out the attribution of pre-proposals and proposals to the members of the international expert panel (its submission and evaluation platform was used to manage the call) and, with tools developed internally, it ensured the animation of the meetings of the expert panel and of the steering committee for the pre-selection of the pre-proposals and for the final selection of the projects.

• T3.5.2, T3.5

Besides these sub-tasks led by XXX, the Agency will be involved into most of the activities of the call secretariat, from the preparation of the call text to the final decision for funding.

ANR will also contribute to WP2 (Transition Pathways) and WP7 (Knowledge hub and replication).

Expertise / infrastructure

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P17 / Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ-PtJ)

Due to the long experience acquired during the JPI-UE, FZJ-PtJ will support different work packages mainly as contributor:

WP3 Call Implementation for the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action and WPs 6, 7 and 8. FZJ-PtJ will lead T7.2 Valorisation Strategy.

For the national coordination and Governing Board, FZJ-PtJ will represent the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in WP1.

FZJ-PtJ is a key player in other transnational funding schemes as well. FZJ-PtJ host five of the National Contact Points (NCPs), which advise German applicants on European research funding, on behalf of the relevant ministries: the NCP Bioeconomy, the NCP Environment and the NCP Materials (Federal Ministry of Education and Research), as well as the NCP Energy and the NCP Navigation and Marine Technology (Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action). We are also the appointed programme coordinator for the thematic areas of bioeconomy, materials, energy and the environment. We support our clients in achieving this objective by administering various funding instruments

including the European Research programme.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P18 / DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV (DLR)

WP3 - Implementation of the calls on national level: Launching and promoting the call, eligibility checks and proposal evaluation, funding decisions, invitation

to the second stage.

As DLR Project Management Agency we have more than four decades experience in preparation of customised funding announcements for our clients in line with their funding policy objectives and support them throughout the entire process of

application, selection and funding.

Name of legal entity

Main contribution Expertise / infrastructure

P19 / MINISTERO DELLO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO (MiSE)

MiSE will mainly contribute to WP1.

The Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) is responsible for a wide variety of policies for economic development and cohesion. The Ministry promotes research and industrial technological innovation and technological

transfer. It is responsible for industrial policies in key sectors for the economic

development, ranging from the design and implementation of internationalisation policies, SME policies and business incentives, to energy and mineral resources management, the development of telecommunications infrastructures and of information and communication technology (ICT) smart services and applications.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P20 / General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI)

GSRI supports the preparation and launch of the co-funded calls (WP3), the evaluation and proposal selection (WP3), the organization of the monitoring procedure (WP4), considering the DUT strategy development process and the

development of the AWPs (WP2).

GSRI under the MINISTRY OF DEVELOPMENT AND INVESTMENTS

is the main policy maker, programme owner and programme manager of R&I system in Greece.

GSRI has been involved in 65 EU programmes (ERANETS CO-FUND, ERANET PLUS, INCO-NET, OMC-NET, CSAs, EAs, etc.) since 2004 and has

a considerable experience as a full partner contributing to or leading several tasks and as a Funding Party in many of the above schemes, supporting 92 projects with

Greek participants during the current operational programme (2014-2020), while 49 more projects remain to be contracted.

Name of legal entity

P21 / Centre for Research & Technology Hellas/ Hellenic Institute of Transport (CERTH/HIT)

Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

CERTH/HIT will contribute to:

WP1: Co-establishment of national coordination mechanisms in Greece to mobilize stakeholders and support widening participation;

WP2/WP7: Emphasis on identifying the need and developing training and awareness raising schemes for local/national authorities, cities and prefectures, policy makers, as well as the general public, as well as for replication and mainstreaming 15-minute city building upon existing experiences.

WP5: Dissemination and exploitation of project results.

WP7: Facilitation of citizen engagement and co-creation strategies and tools, in order to enhance public engagement and demand on these issues.

WP8: Contribution to the strategic cooperation and joint actions with other European partnerships and initiatives. Contribution to actions of Europe-wide and

international cooperation.

CERTH/HIT is putting due emphasis on the issue of “Climate-Neutral & Smart” cities, within its research priorities. CERTH/HIT is preparing webinars on all “Climate-Neutral and Smart cities” issues, ranging from Sustainable transport to Tourism, Clean Energy, Telematics Solutions, etc., including Citizens Engagement.

Thessaloniki Smart Mobility Living Lab (xxxxx://xxxxxxxxx.xxxx.xx/x) of CERTH/HIT is one of Europe's largest Living Labs. The entire city of Thessaloniki is a platform for testing technological and innovative solutions for mobility, cooperative and autonomous vehicles and will soon be extended to freight transport. Thessaloniki is now in the list of smart cities in the mobility sector, and this would not have been possible without the involvement of the bodies that make up the ecosystem of the city, which has been created over the last decade and is constantly growing. In this ecosystem, various operators and

businesses are involved in providing data or expertise to create the right conditions for the exploitation of this infrastructure for the benefit of citizens.

Name of legal entity

Main contribution

P22 / NEMZETI KUTATASI FEJLESZTESI ES INNOVACIOS

HIVATAL - National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH)

NKFIH will participate in:

WP1- T1.1 and T1.3.

Expertise / infrastructure

WP2 - T2.1, T2.3 and T2.4 WP8 - T8.2 and T8.3

NKFIH participates in various multilateral international S&T cooperation initiatives (COST, EUREKA, ICGEB, EMBL, etc.) and coordinates the professional work related to international research infrastructures (CERN, ITER, XFEL, etc.)

NKFIH has vast experience in Widening related activities: beneficiary in several other NCP projects linked to Widening in H2020, such as XXX_XXXX.XXX or Bridge2HE (involved in widening task) and also was the coordinator of 2 H2020 Teaming projects: HCEMM and EPIC.

NKFIH has experience in MSCA NCP projects: it was beneficiary of PeopleNetwork and WP leader for Widening in Net4Mobility+ project. Coordinator of TRANSMOB-HU (2009-12) project which was co-funded by FP7 for supporting researchers' career development through their international mobility.

Previously NKFIH has been active in the ERA-NET SES focus initiative called integrated, regional energy systems (RegSys). This initiative coordinates national and regional RDD budgets and it has established an innovation ecosystem. As XXXXX has actively engaged in the development and management of two co- funded transnational calls for proposals: the 2018 and the 2021 joint call, NKIH also has the expertise and infrastructure to manage co-funded joint calls for proposals.

Other ERA-NET participation: CHANSE-ERANET, CHIST-ERA, FLAG-ERA, QUANT-ERA, ERA-PERMED, NEURON ERANET, etc.

NKFIH can provide rooms for training and meetings for 50-70 people for free. The rooms are equipped with laptop, projector, flipchart, Wifi access. In case of larger events there are many good locations to rent in Budapest. Catering and promotional materials should be covered by the project.

Name of legal entity Main contribution Expertise / infrastructure

P22.1 / Express Innovation Agency (XIA)

Affiliated Entity to NKFIH

WP2 Strategic development of DUT and the transition pathways

WP8 Partnering and international cooperation

XIA is an innovation service subsidiary of the National Research, Development and Innovation Office (NKFIH), supporting the Hungarian innovation ecosystem from youth education to the gateway of the international markets.

Through different schemes XIA has significant experience in creating innovative financial instruments, evaluating projects and proposals, mentoring applicants and involving stakeholders. Being a public non-profit organization gives XIA direct contact to policy makers. XIA has established an extensive network of Hungarian

urban stakeholders as well, providing them permanent consulting opportunities with the aim of exchanging knowledge and experiences.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P23 / The Icelandic Centre for Research - RANNÍS

WP3 Implementation of the co-funded calls

T5.3 Events and support projects with respect to coaching and training for the funded projects.

Xxxxxx manages international cooperation programmes and national funds in the field of research and innovation, education and culture. Rannis coordinates Icelandic participation in European programmes, such as Horizon Europe, the EU's Framework Programme for R&I, promotes the programme in Iceland and

manages the NCPs for the programme. Xxxxxx has participated in a number of ERA-Nets in the period 2014-2020.

Name of legal entity

P24 / Ministero dell’Università della Ricerca (MUR)

The Italian Ministry of Universities and Research (MUR) is the key RTD policy actor and funding agency in Italy at state level. XXX is in charge of preparing and to submit the National Research Programme.

MUR has participated in 7 FP6 ERANETs, 11 FP7 ERANETs and 3 FP7 ERANETs PLUS and in more than 25 H2020 ERANETs Cofund. XXX has actively participated also in all Joint Programme Initiatives

In particular, with reference to the Urban area MUR is involved in JPI UE and the following 25 ERANET Cofunds, among them: ENSUF, EN-UAC, CHIST- ERA III, CHIST-ERA IV, CoBioTech, CORE Organic, EMEurope, EN SGplusRegSys, ERA4CS, ERA-HDHL, ERA-MIN 2, ERA-PLANET, EURONANOMED III, FACCE Surplus, FLAG-ERA II and FLAG-ERA III, GEOTHERMICA, HERA JRP PS, HDHL INTIMIC, JPco-fuND, M- ERA.NET2, MANUNET III, MarTERA, QuantERA, SusCrop, SUSFOOD2,

XXXXXXXX0, WaterWorks2014, WaterWorks2015, WaterWorks2017, BlueBio. Furthermore, MUR participates in other European initiatives, such as JTS, Art. 185 and CSA (among which, the CSA EXPAND for the support of JPI UE).

Lead T8.2 on Synergies with Structural Funds, with the aim to explore opportunities to utilise structural funds for regional engagement in the Partnership. MUR will contribute to all the Year 1 activities of DUT Partnership, with particular focus on the Call Managements Activities (WP3).

MUR will also support the work for the Partnership coordination and management (WP1), Strategic development of DUT and the Transition Pathways (WP2), Enhancing policy impact (WP7).

Main tasks according to AWP1

Expertise / infrastructure

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P25 / AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE (ENEA)

Lead WP6 - Lead T6.2;

ENEA also contributes to T1.3.2, T2.2, T2.3, T2.4, T7.2, T.3, T5.2.2, T5.3.3, T5., T8.2 and T8.4.

ENEA is a national organisation with expertise on communication and technology transfer, technology research and methodology. XXXX brings experience in capacity building for city authorities in different aspects of climate neutrality. XXXX has extensive experience in supporting public authorities for policy making and research. Working with cities in Italy ENEA supports public authorities, SMEs and citizens in sustainable development. XXXX brings the benefits from a consolidated cooperation network at national and international

level and is involved in several European initiatives.

Name of legal entity

P26 / Latvian Council of Science (LCS)

Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

LCS will contribute to the following activities:

T3.6 Implementation of the calls at national level. T5.1 DUT strategic communication and promotion

LSC is a governmental institution under the authority of the Ministry of Education and Science which deals with science and research within the country. LCS has a profound role in determining the prospective directions of research and innovation, evaluating the scientific activity in Latvia, designing the research policy, disseminating achievements of research, emphasising the social dimension of research. The Council’s staff is experienced in executing the mentioned tasks on national and international level via implementation and administration of nationally funded research projects (for instance, Fundamental and Applied Research projects, State Research Programmes etc.) and international research cooperation projects (bi- and tri-lateral co-operation, ERA-NET, JPI, FP5-FP7, Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe etc.). That includes call preparation and implementation, scientific evaluation of proposals and

reports involving scientific experts, as well as research project financial and scientific implementation monitoring. Via science communication activities the

Council promotes programmes and research project results, as well as attracts new project participants and stakeholders. The established contacts with similar European organisations allow an ongoing exchange of best practice in order to continuously develop the Council’s capacity.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P27 / Lietuvos Mokslo Taryba/Research Council of Lithuania (LMT)

WP3 Preparation and launch of co-funded calls:

− Establishment of the national/regional Contact Point

− Co-designing the co-funded calls

− Applicants Support (national/regional level)

LMT is the main national institution executing competitive funding in the country to the national research and education institutions for R&D from the state budget, EU instruments and other sources. LMT is developing and implementing national funding streams, as well as participating in the international cooperation programmes providing joint support to transnational research projects. LMT participated in 12 international coordination initiatives

under H2020 schemes in 2020 and in 2021 joined 3 new ERA-NET COFUNDs and participated in 9 joint transnational calls.

Name of legal entity

P28 / Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties / Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations (MINBZK)

Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

WP2 – T2.3

We will work at national coordination with the relevant stakeholders, such as NWO and we will work together on implementation of the calls in the Netherlands.

The Ministry of the Interior is responsible for the energy transition in the built environment and urban policies. We have many national programmes to facilitate urban transitions and we will link these programmes to the European efforts in

DUT.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P29 / NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR WETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK (NWO)

NWO will focus on participation in calls (WP3) and ensuring the Dutch contribution to the strategic development of TPs (WP2). Efforts will also be put towards the foreseen work on urban living labs (T6.3), cooperation with other networks and partnerships, and internationalisation (8.3. and 8.4).

The mandate of the Taskforce for Applied Research SIA, or Regieorgaan SIA for short, is to improve the quality and widen the impact of the applied research done by universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. Their efforts in DUT will be in line with this mandate.

Together with the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, NWO will ensure national coordination towards the Dutch research community and relevant Dutch actors across all activities of the Partnership.

NWO has a longstanding tradition of participating and leading in international research programming and networks, including being one of the founders of the JPI UE and being an active member of the JPI for many years.

NWO is one of the most important science funding bodies in the Netherlands and realises quality and innovation in science. It invests in curiosity-driven research, research related to societal challenges and research infrastructure. NWO facilitates excellent, curiosity-driven disciplinary, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research. In this role, NWO focuses on all scientific disciplines and on the entire knowledge chain with an emphasis on fundamental research. NWO connects researchers from various disciplines and across the entire knowledge chain and brings researchers and societal partners together. NWO funds the personnel and material cost for scientific research and knowledge

exchange and impact activities of Dutch universities and public research

institutes. NWO invites partners from industry, the government and societal organisations to contribute with their own knowledge agendas and questions to the programming, realisation and co-funding of research.

Regieorgaan SIA encourages the professionalisation and strengthens the quality of applied research in universities of applied sciences in the Netherlands. It funds research, as well as the creation of networks and platforms. Their subsidies support the development phase and the direction that the universities of applied sciences, research groups and professors are taking. Applied research helps solve societal and economic issues and against this backdrop XXX’x goal is to interconnect these issues and universities of applied sciences more strongly, by connecting people, organisations and policy-making. As a network organisation, they operate at regional, national and European level. Regieorgaan SIA is participating in the JPI UE call on Urban Transformation Capacities and in the CSA-proposal CapaCITIES.

Xxxxxx xxx xxx Xxx and Xxxxxx xxx Xxxxxxx are experienced senior policy officers, with together circa 20 years of experience at NWO. This includes many active years in the JPI UE and other international research programmes and networks. Both have vast experience in developing and coordinating national programmes on urban thematics, amongst others.

Name of legal entity Main contribution Expertise / infrastructure

P30 / The Research Council of Norway (RCN)

RCN will contribute to WPs1, 3 and 5;

The Research Council of Norway (RCN) is a national strategic body and funding agency for research and innovation activities. RCN covers all fields of R&I and works together with research institutions, as well as the private and public sectors to reach the national financial goals and quality targets set in this area. The mandate of the Council is to promote and support basic and applied research in all areas of science, technology, medicine and the humanities. Important goals include raising the general level of the understanding of research in society, as a whole and supporting innovation in all sectors and branches of industry.

RCN has the competence to implement and run joint calls, having done this in the frame of JPI UE and other partnerships.

Name of legal entity

P31 / National Centre for Research and Development (NCBR)

Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

WP1, T1.3 WP 3, T3.6 WP6, T6.3

WP 8, T8.3

The NCBR was established in 2007 as an entity in charge of the performance of the tasks related to science, technology and innovation policies adopted by the Polish government.

Since 2011, NCBR has been distributing the EU’s structural funds for the development of the science and higher education sectors in Poland. NCBR was assigned by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education the function of the Intermediate Body in three operational programmes during the financial period 2007-2013: Human Capital, Innovative Economy and Infrastructure and Environment. In the current financial perspective, NCBR is an Intermediate Body for two operational programmes: Knowledge, Education and Development and Smart Growth.

NCBR has also been a partner in over 30 international initiatives, including ERA-Nets and ERA-Nets+, ERA-Net CO-FUNDs, Joint Undertakings and Joint Programming Initiatives, EUREKA, EUROSTARS, as well as bilateral programmes with countries such as: Germany, Israel, Japan, Luxembourg, Taiwan, China, Turkey, South Africa and Ukraine. NCBR has also been the

coordinator of 5 Polish projects in Teaming for Excellence phase I and coordinator of 1 project in Teaming for Excellence phase II.

Name of legal entity

P32 / Directorate General for Energy and Geology (DGEG)

Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

WP1 - T1.1 and T1.3.

WP2 - T 2.3, but also to tasks T2.1 and T2.5. WP4 - T4.1 and T4.3

WP5 - T5.1, T5.3 and T5.4

WP6 (all tasks).

WP7 - T.2.4 and will contribute to all tasks. WP8 - T8.2, T8.3 and T8.4.

DGEG, under the responsibility of the Ministry of Environment and Climatic Action, is the Portuguese public administration responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating policies on energy and geological resources, in a perspective of sustainable development and security of energy supply. Its mission includes regulatory measures and policy implementation as well as raising awareness about the importance of such policies for the economic and social development by informing citizens about tools for implementation of policy decisions and disseminating the results of monitoring and implementation. DGEG has recently integrated research in its structure enabling indoors capacity to develop new tools for developing scenarios and in support of decision making to promote innovation in the energy systems in Portugal. DGEG is the Portuguese representative in the SET Plan and participates in working groups and committees in the European Union, the International Energy Agency (IEA) and

the International Renewable Energy Agency (XXXXX).

Name of legal entity

P33 / Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)

Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

WP1: Ensuring PT representation at the Governance level of the Partnership, including Financial Reporting. Resources will be allocated to both these tasks (Strategic Positions and Steering of the Partnership and Financial Reporting); WP3: FCT will participate, under our current RH limitations, in the implementation of the Joint Calls, imparting our experience in Cofunded Calls and tasks related to monitoring and dissemination (WP5, 6). Direct involvement as “support” will be in the T8.2 “Synergies with Structural Funds”. We will also ensure national stakeholders’ involvement and coordinate the efforts at a national

level.

FCT’s mission is to continuously promote the advancement of knowledge in science and technology in Portugal, attain the highest international standards in quality and competitiveness, in all scientific and technological domains, and encourage its dissemination and contribution to society and to economic growth. FCT pursues its mission through the attribution, in competitive calls with peer review, of fellowships, studentships and research contracts for scientists, research projects, competitive research centres and state-of-the-art infrastructures. FCT ensures Portugal’s participation in international scientific organisations, fosters the participation of the scientific community in international projects and promotes knowledge transfer between R&D centres and industry. Working closely with international organisations, FCT coordinates public policy for the Information and Knowledge Society in Portugal and ensures

the development of national scientific computing resources.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

P34 / Direção-Geral do Território (DGT)

T1.1: Participation at the governance and management of the Partnership, including participation in the regular meetings of the CUE Management Team. T1.3: Participation in the establishment of a specific model for national coordination mechanisms in Portugal to mobilise stakeholders and support

widening participation across sectoral policies and stakeholders, taking into consideration the national and local conditions for urban transitions.

The DGT is the entity responsible for urban policies at national level and represents Portugal in the organisations and working groups related to intergovernmental cooperation on urban matters (e.g., OECD, UNECE, DGUM, UDG, UATPG, URBACT). Within this framework, the DGT hosted and conducted the technical meetings during the Portuguese Presidency of the EU, and also co-organised events with JPI- Urban Europe, EUKN and UN-Habitat. The DGT also participates at the inter-ministerial National Working Group for the implementation and promotion of the New European Bauhaus principles and its dissemination.

T2.4: Cooperation in the strategic development of the CUE Pillar by supporting the conceptual development of circular and regenerative urbanism and participating in processes of co-creation with transnational stakeholders.

T8.1: Coordination of the contribution of the DUT to European Urban Policies. The DGT will bring the DUT to discussion in working groups related to intergovernmental cooperation on urban matters and will contribute to relate the DUT to the UAEU priorities of the upcoming Presidencies of the Council of the EU. Joint actions should be promoted.

Expertise / infrastructure

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P35 / Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI)

The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research and Innovation Funding (UEFISCDI) is a public body of the Central Administration with the mission to promote quality and leadership for higher education, research, development and innovation. XXXXXXXX plays both roles of a higher

education funding agency and a main actor in funding research, development and innovation in

Romania.

UEFISCDI is leading the Call Secretariat in In the ERA-NET Cofund Urban Transformation Capacities (ENUTC) Call, 16 national research and innovation funding agencies, from 14 European countries (namely members of the JPI UE), with the EC, have earmarked a global budget of about 18.4 M€, in order to

support transnational R&I projects.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P36 / Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (MINEDU)

MINEDU will participate in WP1 Partnership Management. Via third parties

giving in-kind contributions MINEDU further will be involved in WP1, WP2, WP2, WP5, WP6, WP7 and WP8.

The Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic is the central body of state administration for science and technology and ensures the creation and implementation of state science and technology policy, including coordination, legal and financial instruments in science and technology, strategic and conceptual documents of the Government of the Slovak Republic and European structures in the field of science and technology in connection with the scientific and technical policy of the European Union. It also coordinates the activities of the central bodies of state administration of the Slovak Republic, the Slovak Academy of Sciences and universities in the field of science and technology.

The ministry coordinates international scientific and technical cooperation, membership of the Slovak Republic in international research organizations, participation of the Slovak Republic in international research and development programs and Community programs of the European Union, fulfilment of tasks arising from the membership of Slovak Republic in the European Union in science and technology, for participation in the European Research Area in the Slovak Republic, cooperation with bodies of the Council of the European Union, the European Commission and its professional bodies and the Permanent

Representation of the Slovak Republic to the European Union.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P37 / Slovenian Research Agency (ARRS)

ARRS will participate in WP1 and WP3. The ARRS brings to the consortium mainly the experience from the JPI UE and other European networks, projects and initiatives. ARRS will contribute by funding third parties as of the second

year of the Partnership.

The ARRS strives to actively participate in European initiatives from its establishment on. The ARRS became a full member of the JPI UE in 2015, after participating in the initiative as an observer from 2014, has been a member of the NORFACE network since 2005 and PRIMA partnership since 2018. The ARRS regularly actively participates in joint calls for proposals of the JPI UE and NORFACE network. The ARRS has been the coordinator of the FP6 CSA on open method of coordination – OMC-NET BIS-RTD and the project partner in FP7 OMC-NET Era Prism. The ARRS is one of the founding members of

Science Europe.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P38 / Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)

WP1 Partnership coordination and TP management:

- Establish national coordination mechanisms to mobilise stakeholders and support widening participation

WP2 Strategic development of DUT and the Transition Pathways:

- Contributions to update of the DUT roadmap WP3 Implementation of co-funded calls:

- Implementation of the calls at national level

- Contribution to preparation of topics and documents of co-funded call

- Suggest Spanish candidates for the evaluation Panel

- National eligibility check

WP4 Monitoring of the DUT Partnership, its calls and projects

- National call management

WP6 Capacity building: Propose Spanish stakeholders for AGORA platform engagement

AEI-Agencia Estatal de Investigación (State Research Agency) is a public funding body created by a Royal Decree in November 2015. The AEI is administratively depending on the Ministry of Science and Innovation and it is responsible for the proposal, management, monitoring and evaluation of the R&I programmes and the strategic actions of the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and for Innovation 2021-2023, in line with the Spanish Strategy of Science, Technology and Innovation 2021-2027.

The AEI objectives comprise the fostering of scientific and technical research in all areas of knowledge through the efficient allocation of public resources, the promotion of excellence, duly encouraging cooperation between the R&I System agents and providing support for generating high impact scientific and technical, economic and social knowledge, including the most challenging endeavours. As well, the AEI has established agreements with other public or private, national or international entities/bodies, in order to promote the R&I

within the implicit range of its purpose and objectives

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P38.1 / Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECyT)

Affiliated entity to AEI

FECyt will lead WP4 Partnership Monitoring and WP5 Communication, dissemination and exploitation of the Partnership and projects' results Participation in WP8 Partnering and international cooperation;

FECyT will further contribute to WP2, WP3 and WP8;

FECyT is a public foundation under the Ministry of Science and Innovation, was founded in 2001 with the aim of promoting scientific research of excellence as well as the development and technological innovation necessary to increase the

competitiveness of Spanish industry and improve the quality of life of citizens, encouraging collaboration between agents involved in R & D and the dissemination and communication of research and innovation results.

FECyT aims to strengthen the link between science and society through actions that promote open and inclusive science, scientific culture and education, responding to the needs and challenges of the Spanish Science, Technology and Innovation System. Provides support to the AEI in CoFund Actions.

Name of legal entity

P39 / Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI)

Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

CDTI will mainly participate in WP3 regarding designing the co-fund calls and call secretariat, improving the preparation and launch the co-fund calls, management calls on national level, eligibility checks, evaluation and communication with applicants of the calls, funding decisions and communication of the evaluation results to the applicants;

WP4: monitoring on projects, call and Partnership level;

CDTI E.P.E is a Spanish public organisation. The core competency of CDTI relies on the management of national and international R&D funding programmes for supporting Spanish entities in their scientific and technological goals. In order to achieve this purpose, CDTI undertakes several activities ranging from the promotion, assessment, funding and monitoring of RTD projects, both at national and international scale. CDTI manages the Spanish industrial participation in ERA-NETs within the FP7 and H2020, as well as international programmes for technological cooperation. Besides, the European Programmes Division carries out the management of the different thematic areas under the TPs of Leadership Industrial Technologies and Societal Challenges of H2020 (including SC3 focused on secure, clean and efficient energy), performing as NCP, and having a National Delegate in all the management committees. CDTI is currently involved

in 25 running ERANET COFUND within the H2020 programme, including 10 networks focused on solar power and other renewable energy sources.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P40 / VINNOVA

- Participate in WP1; attend GB, SG, POMG meetings etc.;

- Participate in WP2 strategic TP development (15minC);

- Participate in WP3; call management with focus on innovation;

- Participate in WP7;

Vinnova is a government agency under the Swedish Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation, and the national contact authority for the EU framework programme for research and innovation. We’re also the Swedish Government's expert authority in innovation policy. Every year, Xxxxxxx invests approximately SEK

3 billion (about 300 m euro) in research and innovation. “Sustainable built environment” is one of ten prioritised thematic areas at Vinnova.

Name of legal entity Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

P41 / Swedish Research Council for Environmental Sciences, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning (Formas)

WP2: Lead of T2.4 Strategic development of CUE transition pathway;

WP1: strategic work in the Governing Board and the Management Board; widening participation and national coordination

WP3: participate in the call management of DUT Call 1 (text-writing, find evaluators etc.) perform eligibility checks and proposal evaluation; implement Call 1 on a national level.

Formas has extensive expertise from working both strategically and operatively in seven partnership programmes under Horizon 2020 (for example within JPI UE, Biodiversa, FACCE, HDHL etc.). Within JPI UE, Xxxxxx has been WP- leader of the evaluation process of the co-funded call ERA-Net Smart Urban Futures (ENSUF), as well as coordinating ERA-Net Urban Transformation

Capacities (ENUTC).

Name of legal entity Main contribution Expertise / infrastructure

P42 / Swedish Energy Agency (SWEA)

SWEA will contribute to WP1, WP2, WP7 and WP8;

The Swedish Energy Agency (SWEA) is leading the energy transition into a modern and sustainable, fossil-free welfare society – applying our credibility, a comprehensive approach and courage.

XXXX works on behalf of the Swedish Government, in the Ministry of Infrastructures area of responsibility. We are regulated by the Government, through the instruction and annual appropriations directives. Parliament and the

Government decide on the assignments and budget of the Agency.

Name of legal entity

42.1. Viable Cities (ViC)

Affiliated Entity to SWEA

Main contribution

Expertise / infrastructure

WP leader WP7, main task 7.1, 7.2, 7.3 WP2 main task 2.3

WP5 main tasks 5.1,5.3,5.4 WP8 main tasks 8.3,8.4

Viable Cities (ViC) is a strategic innovation program focusing on the transition to climate-neutral and sustainable cities. The program's mission is climate- neutral cities by 2030 with a good life for everyone within the planet's boundaries.

ViC is a catalyst for new forms of cooperation between cities, industry, academia, research institutes and civil society. This is to mobilise to change the way our cities operate in line with our national, environmental, and climate goals as well as our international commitments linked to the Global Sustainability Goals – Agenda 2030 – and the Paris Agreement. A key effort in ViC is the initiative Climate Neutral Cities 2030 where 23 Swedish cities and their partners are spearheading efforts to become climate neutral by 2030. These cities together have 40% of Sweden's population. Within this work, the first nine Climate City Contracts were signed in December 2020 by the city Mayors, Directors General of four government agencies and Viable Cities. In October 2021 the last 14 cities joined. ViC programme's timeframe is 2017-2030 and is implemented with support in a concerted effort by Xxxxxxx , SWEA and Formas,

where SWEA is the responsible authority. KTH Royal Institute of Technology is the host organization and hereafter named as ViC.

Name of legal entity Main contribution Expertise / infrastructure

P43 / Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK)

TUBITAK will mainly contribute to:

T1.3,T3.2.2, ,T3.3.2, T3.6, T8.4

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) is a public body in charge of promoting, developing, organizing, conducting and coordinating research and development in Turkey. TÜBİTAK operates as the main advisory institution to the Turkish Government on scientific and technological issues. TÜBİTAK supports research and innovation projects carried out in universities and other public or private bodies. It publishes scientific journals, public scientific magazines, and scientific works. In addition, it supports scientific mobility and student fellowships. Last but not least, TÜBİTAK and its research institutes have been involved in around 100 projects funded under the Horizon 2020 Programme.

TÜBİTAK has been actively following to the initiatives and projects related to joint programming process such as ERA-NET projects, Article 185 Initiatives (Eurostars 2, EMPIR, PRIMA) and Joint Porgramming Initiatives (

Name of legal entity

Main contribution

P44 / Agence de la Transition Écologique (ADEME)

ADEME will mainly engage in WP3, WP5 and WP8;

Expertise / infrastructure

ADEME - The French Agency for Ecological Transition – is firmly committed to fighting global warming and the depletion of our natural resources. ADEME is a public agency under the joint authority of the Ministry for an Ecological Transition and the Ministry for Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

The RDI actions supported by XXXXX especially aim to:

• establish responses to societal expectations and provide support to the public authorities in constructing public policies;

• support the emergence and implementation of a national provision of technologies and services that respond to environmental and energy challenges in a context of climate change.

Name of legal entity

Main contribution Expertise / infrastructure

P45 / Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Centro (CCDR-C )

WP1 - T1.1, T 1.3, WP3, WP5,T8.2

CCDR-C is a regional agency of the Portuguese government that deals with environment, land use, urban planning and regional development in the Centro Region of Portugal. Within the regional development competences, CCDR-C coordinates the regional smart specialisation strategy (S3) and it is the responsible body for the development of the regional agenda for the circular economy (in the context of the national Action Plan). As a regional broker, CCDR-C promotes the internationalisation of the regional innovation ecosystem. CCDR-C is also the managing authority of the Regional Operational Programme of Centro Region and, in this context, it funds research and technological

development projects aligned with the regional smart specialisation areas.

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P46 / Fonds voor Innoveren en Ondernemen (FIO)

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Expertise / infrastructure

For its operation the Fonds for Innovation and Enterpreneurship makes use of the personnel, the equipment and premises of Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Vlaamse Gewest).

Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) will participate in the calls in order to strengthen collaborations at a European scale and solve general societal problems with transitions within urban context. VLAIO intends to follow the meetings for the Joint Transnational Co-funded Calls specifically. The R&D - program for companies will be involved in the joint transnational co-funded calls for research and innovation. European cooperation in this program for development and research projects is supported with a top up under certain conditions. Up to 0,8 MEUR regional subsidy will be reserved per Joint Transnational Call (or 1 MEUR subsidy including the European top-up foreseen, or up to 2 MEUR project budget per call). Flanders Innovation and Entrepreneurship supports a cluster on Logistics and a cluster on Energy focusing on themes related to DUT, is also involved in the ERA-NET "Urban Accessibility and Connectivity" and has specific calls for Smart Cities. Synergies with earlier regional projects and programs are possible for Flemish companies and research

organizations.

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P47 / Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation (KMD)

Associated Partner

Engage in WP1 Partnership Coordination and Pillar Management:

• T1.1 Partnership governance and management

• T1.2 Financial, legal and administrative management of the GA, and

• WP2, T2.1 DUT strategy process.

Norway will be represented by the Research Council of Norway in the practical follow-up of the Partnership. We foresee a close cooperation between the Research Council and the Ministry in the more overall follow-up of the Partnership. The Ministry will first of all have an important role in domestic processes related to budget, the coordination with other Ministries and strategic discussions. The Ministry will also take part in the DUT Governing Board.

The Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation is responsible for the Planning and Building Act and the Norwegian planning system. One important aspect in this respect is urban development. In the Norwegian follow-up of Horizon Europe, the different Ministries have different responsibilities, in close cooperation with the Research Council of Norway. The follow-up is partly coordinated in thematic clusters matching the Horizon Europe clusters, and partly/finally by the Ministry of Education and Research. The Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation has taken the responsibility for the process, and later implementation, of the DUT Partnership.

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P48 Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC)

Associated Partner

DETEC department Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE):

WP2: Co-design position paper/policy brief on selected strategic topics to provide input for call development and strategic actions for positive energy districts (PED) and 15-minutes-city pillars

WP3: Establish a co-design process for call and call topic development for positive energy districts (PED) and 15-minutes-city pillars and create respective documents

DETEC department Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA):

WP2: Co-design position paper/policy brief on selected strategic topics to provide input for call development and strategic actions for 15-minutes- city pillar

WP3: Establish a co-design process for call and call topic development in for 15-minutes-city pillar and create respective documents

DETEC comprises SFOE and FOCA - two offices that have knowhow in both the energy and aviation field. Whereas the FOCA’s expertise covers the demonstration, regulation and standardisation of technologies in the aerial dimensions of the 15minC (i.e. integration drone applications in all of their forms in an urban context), the energy research section at the SFOE is the main national coordinator and funding agency for energy research

with programs in transport/mobility and the building sector.

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P49 / Swiss Innovation Agency (Innosuisse)

Associated Partner

Innosuisse will participate in the first joint call and, thus, they will mainly

participate in WP3.

Innosuisse is Switzerland’s Innovation Funding Agency and has experience and expertise in Innovation Calls, international Consortia Cooperation and European

Partnerships.

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P50 / Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

Associated Partner

Contribution to WP2 and WP3;

Expertise / infrastructure

Through its international activities, the SNSF contributes to the increase of research capacity in Switzerland and abroad. The SNSF engages in a number of different science policy for such as the Global Research Council (GRC) or Science Europe, as well as committees and in working groups of intergovernmental institutions and programmes, such as the OECD Global Science Forum (GSF) or the EU Framework Programme Committees.

At present, Switzerland is taking part in some 25 ERA-NET initiatives covering a number of research areas. All necessary infrastructure is available.

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P51 / UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Associated Partner

UKRI will support the Partnership through attending management and governance meetings, providing input based on our previous experiences through JPI UE and our own organisational knowledge, and also information on the UK context/relevant activities.

UKRI will support setting-up and running the national coordination process in the UK, helping to mobilise different types of stakeholders, and widen the participation in activities from the UK.

Due to national budget limitations, UKRI does not anticipate being able to provide funding as an Associated Partner for the first call, however, we still envision engaging in the development of future activities planned by the

Partnership for when we are able to contribute.

XXXX is responsible for supporting research and knowledge exchange at higher education institutes as well as being the UK’s innovation agency. We are involved in several multilateral European and global partnerships, including being a long-term member of JPI UE, and therefore have the expertise and experience to deliver activities outlined above in collaboration with the DUT. Our organisation covers the full breadth of academic disciplines, from basic research through to innovation. We fully endeavour to support activities that are both academically excellent and have a positive impact for our economy and

society. We work in partnership with policy makers, civil society, industry and higher education institutes, both in the UK and globally.

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P52 / Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry for Education and Reserach) (BMBF)

Associated Partner

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Expertise / infrastructure

The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research will support the DUT Partnership mainly by providing strategic advice and alignment of national processes with the objectives of the DUT Partnership. Furthermore, the Ministry will exchange with German stakeholders (agencies, organizations representing communities, key players in urban R&I, private stakeholders) to stimulate needs

and experiences. The Ministry will also take part in the DUT GB.

The Federal Government is committed to supporting renewable energy, sustainable urban development and mobility, as well as demographic change to progress the Energy Transition in Germany, stopping climate change, and raising awareness for the importance of sustainability for ecology, economy and society by providing scientific and technical solutions to the challenges in the fields of climate/energy, health/nutrition, mobility, security, and

communication.

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P53 / Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWe)

Associated Partner

The German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action will support the DUT Partnership mainly by providing strategic advice and alignment of national processes with the objectives of the DUT Partnership. Furthermore, the Ministry will exchange with German stakeholders (agencies, organizations

representing communities, key players in urban R&I, private stakeholders) to

stimulate needs and experiences. The Ministry will also take part in the DUT Governing Board.

The German Federal Government has commissioned the BMWe to design the energy transition in a reasonable way by making the energy transition a driver for modernisation, innovation and digitisation – and to do this without compromising German industries’ competitiveness.

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P54 / Ministère de la transition écologique (MTE)

Associated Partner

- Articulation with national research and innovation policies and issues on the subject "Sustainable city"

- Participation in the promotion of the sustainable city within the framework of the French presidency of the European Union

- Link with FR stakeholders (agencies, organizations representing communities, key players in urban R&I, private stakeholders) to stimulate needs, obstacles (in connection with the submitted project CapaCities - CIT 01 01) experiences and evidence

- Thematic implication on the three TPs, at a level of strategic definition of the orientations

- Contribution in the promotion of the results and evidence provided by XXX, for FR stakeholders

The French ministry for an ecological transition defines and implements the national policy of territory development, transport, energy and environment. It also co-develops, leads and evaluates policies pertaining to city planning, construction and housing. The ministry comprises several departments, among which is the Directorate General for the Commission for sustainable development (CGDD) in charge of:

- coordinating long term strategy, research policy and industrial policy making;

ensuring a better integration of environmental issues in all public policies and projects.The MET brings as well, scientific expertise to national (and European) research and innovation programs; it defines, in an inter-ministerial team, the orientations of the programs on the Sustainable City, then operationalized by the operators (including ANR and ADEME, partners of DUT). In this, it actively participates in the "sustainable city" acceleration strategy, which is one of the key research and innovation instruments defined over the period 2021 - 2025, to carry out actions (of varying maturity) in the

urban field.

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P55 / Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur, de la Recherche et de l’Innovation (MESRI)

Associated Partner

- Articulation with national research and innovation policies and issues on the subject "Sustainable city"

- Participation in the promotion of the sustainable city within the framework of the French presidency of the European Union

- Thematic implication on the three TPs, at a level of strategic definition of the orientations

- Contribution in the promotion of the results and evidence provided by XXX, for FR stakeholders

The MESRI brings scientific expertise to national (and European) research and

innovation programs; it defines, in an inter-ministerial team, the orientations of the programs on the Sustainable City, then operationalized by the operators

(including ANR and XXXXX, partners of DUT). In this, it actively participates in the "sustainable city" acceleration strategy, which is one of the key research and innovation instruments defined over the period 2021 - 2025, to carry out actions (of varying maturity) in the urban field. In particular, the MESRI is the pilot of the PEPR (Priority Research Program and Equipment) which will have the essential objective of developing new skills or tools for the attention of communities, for better management of the objectives defined by the national climate plan, Declined locally in the "PCAET" plans, aiming in particular at controlling energy consumption (and substitution by renewable energies), and emissions.

The MESRI is in regular contact with the MTE (Ministry of Ecological Transition) and agencies (in particular ADEME) for the proper adequacy of R&I tools to achieve the objectives of public policies relating to the sustainable city.

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P56 / Centre d'études et d'expertise sur les risques, l'environnement, la mobilité et l'aménagement / Centre for Studies and Expertise on Risks, the Environment, Mobility and Urban Planning (CEREMA)

Associated Partner

Our support and contribution will be concentrating on the following tasks of WP5 and WP7:

T5.1.1: Develop a communication, dissemination & exploitation strategy for the DUT Partnership

T.3.4: Project meetings

T7.2: Develop and implement a valorisation strategy T7.3: Towards replication and mainstreaming

Because of the various and multiple topics covered by the “Urban transition” approach, cross-sectoral design, approaches and expertise, in other words integrated thinking and implementation, are paramount. In addition, achieving the climate, and more broadly environmental and sustainable, goals at the expected pace and ambition, requires a fast-track replication of high-profile demonstrators.

As a public multidisciplinary scientific, expertise and resource and expertise centre (2,500 staff), CEREMA has developed an original systemic approach and provides tailored integrated solutions to local authorities, contracting authorities, companies and vectors of public policies by combining 6 areas of skills:

a. Integrating climate change into territorial strategies [Expertise & Territorial Engineering]

b. Making Make buildings greener and smarter [Buildings]

c. Promoting sustainable mobility [Intelligent & Sustainable Mobility]

d. Adapting infrastructure to climate change [Green & Sustainable Transport Infrastructure]

e. Preventing natural risks [Environment & Risks]

f. Understanding, anticipating and supporting the development of coastal regions [Sea & Cost]

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P57 / National Association for Research and Technology (ANRT)

Associated Partner

WP2 and WP 5:

- 2.4 - Strategic development of CUE TP

- 5.1 - DUT Strategic communication and promotion

- 5.3.4 - Project Meetings

- 5.4 - Dissemination and exploitation of projects results

ANRT is an established player in research & innovation, with a focus on helping academic and private spheres work together. ANRT contributes to French

competitiveness through its missions:

- allow all companies to access research & innovation (ANRT is National Contact Point for Legal and Financial questions, and for EIC)

- represent research & innovation to public authorities

- build up multi-sectorial collective intelligence that benefits everyone of its members, and that contributes to French and European R&I public policies

- foster partnerships

- operate the Cifre PhD programme.

To carry out these missions, ANRT develop activities such as :

- animation of clubs and working groups : European Research Area; Innovation & Competitiveness ; Ecological transition ; National energy research strategy

; Digital strategy for industrial policy ; Sustainable lunar momentum for mankind ; Learning through games.

- organisation of three annual conferences : Constructing & organizing research partnership relations; Annual review of new uses ; Science, Innovation & Society.

Through its activities and outputs, ANRT is recognized for its impartial stance and its capacity to express a joint opinion that is fair, well-balanced and in the interest of progress.

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P58 / Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digitization (MCID)

Associated Partner

MCID will mainly participate in WP1 and WP2.

The Ministry of Research and Innovation is a specialized body of the central public administration, with the role to implement policies in the areas of scientific research, technological development and innovation.

The Ministry coordinates que implementation of the strategy and governance program for the science, technology and innovation areas, organizing and managing the attributions established by the national law in order to conduct relevant policies and actions with other ministries for development of science and innovation.

At the same time the Ministry supports the development, monitoring and application of policies in those areas, it also ensures that the new innovative processes and technological advances meet the expectations and needs for a

sustainable economic development and to increase the quality of life of citizens.

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P59 / National territorial cohesion agency (ANCT)

Associated Partner

ANCT’s support and contribution will be concentrating on the following tasks: T2.2 Strategic development of 15minC TP

T5.1 DUT Strategic communication and promotion T8.1 Contributions to European urban policy

T8.2 Synergies with Structural Funds T8.4 International cooperation

The ANCT brings central government and local authorities together. Increasing the leverage effect of public investment, it acts as a facilitator for the emergence of projects in all territories.

It supports programs in various areas of public policy: urban policies (deprived urban areas, urban renewal, development of medium-sized and small cities) as well as digitization and its territorial impact, the various axes of territorial development in general (such as economic relocation, attractiveness, access to public services) and also rural development (including mountain areas).

It also offers a tailor-made engineering service to support the emergence and development of local projects.

Is in charge of the deployment of recovery and ecological transition contracts (CRTE) throughout all the national territory.

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The National Agency for Territorial Cohesion is the national coordinating authority for European funds in France.

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P60 / Ministry of the Environment (MEnv)

Associated Partner

XXxx will participate in the drafting of national guidelines and coordination of DUT and prepare the launch of the DUT in Finland in collaboration with Business Finland and MEE. MEnv will, in close cooperation with MEE, link the overall DUT as well as more specific targets to the 1) overall sustainable urban development policy priorities nationally, 2) fit DUT as part of the portfolio of different vehicles in relation to sustainable urban development and 3) connect

DUT to the various cities’ networks linked to sustainable urban development.

MEnv has the experience (as well as the role, in close cooperation with MEE) on overall coordination of sustainable urban development policies and metropolitan policies in Finland, close links to research (especially applied), research networks and individual institutions. MEnv has a longstanding

knowledge on the utilization of research in the field of sustainable urban development.

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P61 / Business Finland (BF)

Associated Partner

BF will mainly be involved in WP3.

Business Finland is a public organization under the Finnish Ministry of Employment and the Economy. Business Finland is involved in funding Finnish space research, under the New Space Economy program, as well as start-up companies, under Young Innovative Company funding program among other

projects.

Industrial/commercial involvement

Within the urban innovation system, business innovations play a very particular role – with municipalities as main investors and procurers on the one hand and citizens as prosumers on the other. Businesses, such as real estate developers, construction companies, utility companies, infrastructure and service providers and many others, will play a vital role as solution providers. Public and private business models must be redesigned along the TPs and integrated well into the overall planning and management of urban areas to ensure inclusiveness, accessibility, efficiency and effectiveness of new business solutions. Businesses are, therefore, included as one target group for DUT (see Section 2.2). Each of the DUT TPs will allow to strengthen the involvement of business, from industry to entrepreneurs and social innovators. In addition, for some funding agencies the participation of business partners in consortia is mandatory and funding will be provided for commercial partners.

Many companies are in need of new business models, when renewable energy systems, new mobility concepts or circular economy models become standard in society. Investors will develop new models for risk sharing, cooperative innovation and participatory funding pipelines. Citizens will take on a new role as prosumers with active participation in new business models. By creating an urban innovation eco-system involving all urban actors the underlying conflicts of interests, ambitions and needs can be addressed and solutions and approaches co-designed. In this regard, efforts will be taken to mobilise and involve business as part of the multi-stakeholder community (WP6). The need for particular capacity building for SMEs will be investigated to better exploit their potential and strengthen their engagement in urban R&I (T6.2). They will be invited to join consortia for R&I projects and become part of the wider DUT community. It is expected that the longer-term perspective of each of the TPs will allow businesses to follow-up on results and establish longer-term cooperation within consortia and beyond. In addition, new economic actors, social entrepreneurs, start-ups, etc., have been identified as a particularly relevant target group to drive change. In order to mobilise and empower these stakeholders, new formats will be investigated (T6.4).

Involvement of international programme owners and funders

While starting from the European perspective, the DUT Partnership aims at establishing international cooperation on the level of funding partners, networks and individual stakeholders to gain international visibility

of European activities and achievements, offer access to results internationally and team-up with and strengthen related efforts globally. In light of the SDGs, combining local research and practice with global learning and exchange is needed to benefit from different perspectives and diverse experiences. Opening up to international collaboration on urban transitions could help to validate European approaches under different conditions, benefit from integrating new perspectives and create additional scientific and economic gains. Experiences from the collaboration with Belmont Forum or the joint call with China show that international cooperation is needed to reflect European solutions against different cultural, social, climate, economic, etc. conditions.

With the launch and leading role of the EC in the global Urban Transition Mission of Mission Innovation, there is a clear international ambition to bring the European activities to a global level. XXX XX has joined this global mission as a co-lead (together with the Global Covenant of Mayors). Cooperating with international countries and actors towards climate-neutral cities therefore can be seen as of interest for the EU in order to form international alliances and mutually benefit from experiences and solutions.

Although no international partner (third country except Switzerland) has joined the consortium yet, dialogues have been established with e.g., the Belmont Forum and Mission Innovation, in addition to some bilateral exchanges with e.g., China and Canada. The efforts to recruit international funders and mobilise inter national stakeholders are covered in T8.4 and the governance model explicitly addresses openness for international partners (see Section 3.2.2).

3.3.2 DUT governance structure and management

For implementing the DUT Partnership, a transparent and efficient governance model is needed that corresponds to the following principles:

• Offer a platform for high-level national authorities and EC to discuss strategic issues and provide guidance for implementation;

• Ensure operational capacities for running a transnational R&I programme with its three thematic priorities;

• Define mechanisms for decision-making and collaboration;

• Specify the roles and ensure contributions of other actors, stakeholders and neighbouring Partnerships;

• Consider coordination on and between transnational, national and regional level

• Follow an open governance approach with respect to newcomers.

Fig.9: DUT Governance Structure.

The DUT governance model is based on the existing governance structure of JPI UE. However, the model is to be adapted to fit the needs of the DUT Partnership in terms of dealing with the three TPs and a more complex

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