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Innovative Actions Second Call for Proposals

Introduction

EUI Second Innovative Actions call with a budget of EUR 120 million ERDF was open until 5 October 2023, 14h00 CEST.

This Second Call was open to all EU cities with projects focused on one of the following three topics:

  • ‘Greening Cities', to experiment and deliver tangible innovative solutions on green infrastructure to better address biodiversity, pollution, resource and climate challenges, highly contributing to the green and just transition under the Cohesion policy investments.
  • ‘Sustainable Tourism’, to support long-term green and digital transformation and resilience of the tourism ecosystem. For this topic, we aim primarily to improve conditions for both residents and visitors of the city.
  • ‘Harnessing talent in shrinking cities’, particularly in regions identified by the European Commission in the Communication ‘Harnessing talent in Europe’s regions’, to retain and attract talent.

Results

On May 22 2024, the EUI announced the results of this second call. The list of the 22 selected projects within the 2nd call is here. Four out of 22 selected projects will focus on testing innovative and creative solutions for attracting and harnessing talent in shrinking cities. Those are Haskovo (Bulgaria), Celje (Slovenia), Kozani (Greece) and Stalowa Wola (Poland).