Innovative models for collective community investment and ownership
European Commission · Horizon Europe
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- European Commission · Horizon Europe
- Award amount
- Up to €3,500,000
- Deadline
- December 1, 2027
- Eligible countries
- European Union, United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Israel, Global
Summary
Forthcoming EU call topic HORIZON-NEB-2027-01-BUSINESS-02 · HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions. Part of call HORIZON-NEB-2027-01: Innovative models for neighbourhoods that integrate beauty, inclusiveness and sustainability. Opens 2027-05-05; next deadline 2027-12-01. Topic page: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-NEB-2027-01-BUSINESS-02
Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: - Community[1] stakeholders co-create[1] and participate[3] in innovative community investment and community ownership models. - Community stakeholders benefit from increased local democratic participation, social equity and cohesion, a sense of place and belonging, and local economic development.
Scope: Collective community investment and ownership models can empower diverse local community stakeholders to collectively invest in, own, manage, and benefit from local commercial, housing, transitional, or mixed-use assets. By directly engaging community stakeholders, such bottom-up and place-based approaches respond to local community needs and preferences and create local agency and long-term stewardship in the revitalisation of neighbourhoods. Proposals are expected to address all of the following: - Develop a collective community investment or ownership model that involves diverse community stakeholders, including marginalised groups or those in a vulnerable situation, in the co-creation and revitalisation of neighbourhoods in line with the New European Bauhaus by focusing on one of the following options: - Option A: A community equity investment model that offers community stakeholders the ability to acquire shares in local cooperative and community-based commercial or service-oriented assets to profit from and participate in their further development without necessarily working there. - Option B: An occupant equity model through which community…
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