Horizon Europe

Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods

Deadline: 1 December 202629 days left · check the hour on the call's page
Amount per project: 5 m EURabout 2 grants · 10 m EUR in total
Funding rate: do 70% kosztów kwalifikowalnych, dla podmiotów non-profit do 100%; ryczałt

What it funds

Funds development and demonstration of innovative public-space design approaches integrating user perspectives in neighbourhoods across different countries.

Participatory spatial design · Public spaces · Neighbourhood planning · Inclusive urban design

Who can apply

Podmioty prawne w konsorcjum co najmniej trzech niezależnych podmiotów z trzech różnych państw UE lub stowarzyszonych, w tym minimum jednego z UE.

Rules of this edition

In Polish, as the source we read gives them.

Demonstracja podejścia w co najmniej trzech dzielnicach lub osiedlach w różnych państwach UE lub stowarzyszonych, w obszarach miejskich, podmiejskich i wiejskich.
Partycypacyjne i transdyscyplinarne projektowanie przestrzeni publicznych z udziałem mieszkańców.
Wymagany rzeczywisty wkład nauk społecznych i humanistycznych oraz odpowiednich ekspertów.
Co najmniej 0,8% budżetu na współpracę z New European Bauhaus hub for results and impact.

Rules checked on 30 October 2026 on the operator's page: new-european-bauhaus.europa.eu

Deadline and amount as of 2 November 2026.

Who won before

With Polish institutions taking part · 4 projects

Each project names its coordinator, which can be an institution outside Poland.

CANVAS: CANVAS: STREET FURNITURE AS A CANVAS - BEAUTY, INCLUSION AND SUSTAINABILITY IN PUBLIC SPACEAit Austrian Institute of Technology Gmbh · 5,110,818 EUR · 2026
CHESS: Common‑space Health, Equity & Social SimulationTh!nk E · 3,503,007 EUR · 2026
PULSE: Participatory Green Futures: Co-creating inclusive and resilient neighbourhoods through cultural participationTampereen Korkeakoulusaatio Sr · 2,999,970 EUR · 2026
INFRA-CARE: Nurturing INFRAstructures of CARE by Centering Culture, Nature, and Solidarity in the Green TransitionKobenhavns Universitet · 2,996,980 EUR · 2026

Sources: RAD-on (OPI-PIB), CORDIS, Baza of Wrocław University of Science and Technology. For the university's projects we give its part of the sum and the award year.

Next steps at Wrocław University of Science and Technology

The Projects Office has no separate procedure for this programme, so these are the general rules.

FirstBefore you start work on the application, tell the head of your unit and set out the project's risks. You need written consent to prepare and run the project. The head of the unit also names the project lead on the notice form.
Tell the Projects Office you plan to apply.
By 17 November 2026Hand in the original project notice at the Projects Office secretariat, signed by the project lead and the dean (in another unit: its head), at least 10 working days before the application goes out. Hand in the signed risk analysis with it. When the project spans several units, their heads consent to their own tasks.Documents: annex 1 to ZW 2/2023 (individual project: annex 1a) and annex 1b
In a partner project, the notice starts the check of the cooperation agreement.
Before the application goes out (the rules give no number of days)Hand the original annex on the project's scope to the Bursar's Office (Kwestura) for a VAT opinion, and request the VAT eligibility statement in the form the funder requires. When the statement exists only in the funder's system, attach a printout from it. Send a scan of the opinion to the Projects Office. A copy of the statement later goes with the request to open the project.Documents: annex 2 to ZW 2/2023 (investment project: annex 2a for equipment, annex 2b for construction)
By 20 November 2026Hand in the application documents for the Projects Office to check at least 7 working days before the application goes out, also when PWr is a partner or a consortium member.Documents: application documents
1 December 2026The last moment to file the application with the funder.Check the hour on the call's page.

The dates count statutory holidays, not days off set by the Rector.

The rules on the Projects Office site

Contact

Dział ProjektówMain Building, A-1, room 150AWyb. Wyspiańskiego 27, 50-370 Wrocław+48 71 320 45 71 dp@pwr.edu.pl