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Deploying circular systemic solutions through living labs in cities and regions (Circular Cities and Regions Initiative topic)

Announced, not yet open · HORIZON Innovation Actions · two-stage · HORIZON-CL6-2027-01-CIRCBIO-01-two-stage

Next cut-off

08 Apr '27

in 214 days

Per grant

€5.0M

the call's own average

Grants expected

projects that will be funded

Funding rate

70%

the rest is your own money

Expected Outcome:

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

increased circularity and reduced emissions of greenhouse gases and air pollutants in the economic sectors, services and product value chains at local and/or regional scale. This also includes an efficient valorisation of local resources, with positive effects on air and water quality as well as on biodiversity;
widespread deployment and easier replication, scalability and visibility of circular systemic solutions for a multiplication of their economic, social and environmental benefits;
enhanced collaboration and knowledge transfer between public authorities (cities and regions), companies, research and citizens in addressing environmental challenges, such as climate-change, resource depletion and biodiversity loss.

Scope:

This topic supports the implementation of the European Commission’s Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI). It builds on a series of CCRI-related topics funded under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, and replicated every one to two programming year since 2021. The goal is to accelerate place-based innovation, boost skills and capacities and support the implementation of solutions for a circular systemic transition at city or region level. Implementing circular systemic solutions reduces environmental impacts and contribute to the preservation of biodiversity, by decreasing the extraction of primary raw materials and minimizing waste generation.

Trimmed here, the full scope, expected outcomes and award criteria are on the official topic page ↗.

Cut-offs

What applying costs you

Item	Estimate	Note
Drafting effort	8–10 weeks	short proposal, then a full one
Partner search	4–8 weeks	runs in parallel, and it is the part that slips
Your own money	€2.1M	30% of project cost, over the project's life
Time to first payment	9–12 months	cut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

Item

Estimate

Note

Drafting effort

8–10 weeks

short proposal, then a full one

Partner search

4–8 weeks

runs in parallel, and it is the part that slips

Your own money

€2.1M

30% of project cost, over the project's life

Time to first payment

9–12 months

cut-off → evaluation → grant agreement

These are Bemzu's estimates from the call's structure (the number of stages and whether a consortium is required) not figures published by the Commission. Only the co-financing share is read from the call itself.

Where these conditions come from

Two kinds of row. Most are the sentence we read the condition from, quoted out of the call itself. Some say plainly that they are not a quotation but the programme's own rule for this type of action, the EU portal publishes a table of contents where the conditions should be, so for a Research and Innovation Action the rate comes from the rulebook rather than from the fiche.

Condition	Quoted from the call, or the rule behind it
Consortium size	Not quoted from this call — Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are at least three independent legal entities from three different Member States or Associated Countries, at least one established in a Member State.
Funding rate	Not quoted from this call — Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are funded at 70% of eligible costs for profit-making organisations, and 100% for non-profit legal entities — the rate shown here is the one that applies to a company.
Maturity	null Activities are expected to achieve TRL 6-8 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.

Condition

Quoted from the call, or the rule behind it

Consortium size

Not quoted from this call — Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are at least three independent legal entities from three different Member States or Associated Countries, at least one established in a Member State.

Funding rate

Not quoted from this call — Innovation Actions under the Horizon Europe rules are funded at 70% of eligible costs for profit-making organisations, and 100% for non-profit legal entities — the rate shown here is the one that applies to a company.

Maturity

null Activities are expected to achieve TRL 6-8 by the end of the project – see General Annex B.

Deploying circular systemic solutions through living labs in cities and regions (Circular Cities and Regions Initiative topic)

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Where these conditions come from

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