Designed to support urban innovation and cities’ capabilities to build urban development, the first EUI-IA call was looking for project proposals to deliver sustainable urban development through the three NEB core values and to inspire other Cohesion Policy projects. 

The call was dedicated to four themes:
✔️ constructing and renovating in a spirit of circularity and carbon neutrality
✔️ preserving and transforming cultural heritage
✔️ adapting and transforming buildings for affordable housing solutions
✔️ regenerating urban spaces.

The call generated a strong interest from all over the European Union, with 99 applications from 21 EU Member States. The selected 14 projects come from varied EU urban context not only in terms of size (8 projects are located in small and medium size cities with less than 250,000 inhabitants) but also geographically (12 EU Member States).

The list of the 14 selected projects of the first EUI - Innovative Actions call is available here.