Project description DEENESFRITPL Appointing Mission Director of the Urban Transitions Mission The EU’s Urban Transitions Mission is coled by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation, the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, and the Joint Programming Initiative - Urban Europe. It focuses on climate neutral and smart cities. The EU-funded MI UTM project will support the appointment of the Mission’s Director with a grant covering the resources required for an initial two-year period. This will include overhead costs, as well as travel and external event engagements. The grant will also include a contribution towards conceptualisation, development and execution of the planned Annual Innovation Summit under the Urban Transitions Mission, which brings together clean energy and net zero leaders across the EU. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective A grant to support the Mission Director for the Urban Transitions Mission under Mission Innovation, co-led by the European Commission DG Research and Innovation (RTD), the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM), and Joint Programming Initiative - Urban Europe (JPI UE). This grant covers the resources required to appoint the Director for an initial two-year period - including overhead costs - as well as travel and external event engagements. It also contains a contribution towards conceptualization, development, and execution of the planned Annual Innovation Summit under the Urban Transitions Mission: a gathering of clean energy and net-zero leaders across national governments (and the European Commission), cities and local governments, businesses, academia, and civil society. Fields of science engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energysocial sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil society Programme(s) HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility Main Programme Topic(s) HORIZON-MISS-2022-CIT-IBA - Global Mission on Urban Transitions under Mission Innovation Call for proposal HORIZON-MISS-2022-CIT-IBA See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CSA - Coordination and support action Coordinator C40 CITIES CLIMATE LEADERSHIP UK Net EU contribution € 349 500,00 Address 3 queen victoria street EC4N 4TQ London United Kingdom See on map Region London Inner London — West Camden and City of London Activity type Other Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 70 606,25
