GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

All proposals must comply with the following requirements to ensure the project scope is suited:

• Develop activities to improve citizens’ lives, and embed and integrate all three core New European Bauhaus values (sustainability, aesthetics, inclusion) and all three key New European Bauhaus principles (multilevel, participatory, transdisciplinary approach) into their projects.
• The activities must be tailored towards at least two specific and clearly identified target groups (can be defined by age, profession, neighbourhoods of the same city, etc.). The proposal needs to include a communication and dissemination plan to engage with target groups in the given period.
• The physical area or location where planned activities will take place must be specified.
• The proposed solution must have the potential to be implemented on a broader scale and/or replicable following a context-based approach. Proposals should aim for long-term sustainable impact.
• The proposal must provide deep understanding of the local ecosystem, including stakeholders, culture and social dynamics, as well as expertise in citizen engagement activities and innovation/action.
• The applicant must have proven expertise and hands-on experience in leading and coordinating at least one previous citizen engagement project with the target groups involved.
• The proposed solution must use existing knowledge, innovative methodologies, tools, or processes on target group behaviour with regard to the selected topic and push for/promote real behavioural change and influence policy making.

Applicants must address at least one of the four defined EIT Community NEB Challenge Areas based on the following NEB four thematic axes:

• Reconnecting with nature
• Regaining a sense of belonging
• Prioritising the places and people that need it the most
• The need for long-term, life cycle thinking in the industrial ecosystem