It will launch up to 24 socio-technical pilots through a calendar of two rounds of federated public procurement of innovation calls, managed by ANCI Toscana to tackle the challenges faced by 12 European cities.

During the first round of Calls, launched on October 17, solution providers are welcome to propose innovative and sustainable solutions to meet the needs of the 8 leaders cities of the project: Athens, Cascais, Differdange, Grenoble-Alpes Métropole, Ioannina, Maribor, Sofia and Turin.

This first round will award up to 16 pilot projects, with an overall budget of 2.400.000 euro.

The instrument chosen by CLIMABOROUGH for the call for tenders is the innovation partnership. that will be launched and managed by ANCI Toscana on behalf of the cities.

The call for tenders is open to all legal entities that can guarantee performance and fulfil the criteria stated in the Tender Regulations.

Each city has defined a specific challenge, considered central to reach the objective of the achievement of the climate neutrality by 2050 (and a reduction of 55% by 2030): Athens will work on energy and buildings, Grenoble-Alpes to model the impact of a construction project, Differdange to produce 100% of its clean electricity locally, Sofia to reduce traffic, while Maribor, Turin and Cascais need to improve the collection of textile, WEEE and biowaste, and Ioannina will concentrate on wastewater.

The various challenges are all associated with socio-technical solutions to stimulate and boost the use of data and to trigger behavioural change, also via the participation of local stakeholders at all levels.

The calendar of the tender submission of proposals is defined in various steps, however to be part of the procedure it will be necessary for applicants to apply by November 30. All the information about the tender are available on a dedicated orientation workshop.