Short description of the call
The European City Facility (EUCF) aims to help municipalities and local authorities develop investment concepts for implementing the actions set out in their climate and energy action plans. The ultimate goal of the EUCF is to create a large pipeline of sustainable energy investment projects in all European municipalities.
The EUCF programme finances the development of the Investment Concept through a fixed grant of EUR 60 000 per beneficiary.
Eligible applicants
The EUCF is open to all municipalities/local authorities, groups of municipalities/local authorities, and local public bodies of municipalities/local authorities in the EU-27, Iceland and Ukraine. Applicants must have a climate and/or energy plan. This includes sustainable energy and climate action plans developed under the Covenant of Mayors initiative or other climate and/or energy plans with mitigation objectives. In addition, applicants must demonstrate a political commitment to the development of the Investment Concept. The applicant must commit to a two-year EUCF monitoring period.
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Funded activities
The EUCF finances activities such as (technical) feasibility studies, market analyses, stakeholder analyses, legal, economic and financial analyses, risk analyses, etc., which are needed to develop an investment concept. These activities may be carried out by in-house staff or by external experts on a subcontracted basis. The grant cannot directly finance the actual investment, but it covers the cost of mobilising resources and services to develop the investment concept.
Criteria for evaluating applications
Proposals are evaluated according to 4 evaluation criteria: 1) The ambition of the proposed investment concept; 2) The governance structure for the development of the investment concept; 3) The stakeholder engagement strategy; 4) Coherence and credibility. For full details of the evaluation process, see - Guidelines for applicants.
Benefits of joint programmes
In line with the objectives of the EUCF, local authorities/municipalities are encouraged to pool their efforts and resources and to submit joint applications in order to increase the ambition of the application and the likelihood of success. Local public entities bringing together municipalities/local authorities are also eligible.
Budget
This 6th call will support 75 investment concepts with a total budget of €4.5 million. Lithuania belongs to the CEE region and will receive EUR 1.8 million. 30 concepts are expected to be approved.
Application period
Applications must be submitted by 15.03.2024, 17.00.
The process for assessing the poor
EUCF proposals are evaluated by a dedicated evaluation team at the end of each call for proposals. Each proposal shall be evaluated individually by at least two evaluators. During the desk review, the evaluators shall check that all supporting documents have been submitted and are of the required content. If the documents are not complete, the application is rejected and the applicant receives an email notification from the EUCF website user area. Applications are evaluated according to four assessment criteria: 1) Ambition of the proposed investment project; 2) Governance structure; 3) Stakeholder engagement strategy; 4) Consistency and credibility. At the end of the evaluation process, each applicant is informed of the final outcome with appropriate feedback in the form of a feedback report. The best evaluated applications are selected for EUCF support. Unsuccessful applications may seek assistance from the EUCF Helpdesk to re-apply in the next call for proposals.
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For more information on the EUCF call and the requirements, see here.
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