Details
- Status
- Open
- Reference
- HORIZON-NEB-2025-01-PARTICIPATION-03
- Publication date
- 15 May 2025
- Opening date
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Deadline date
- 12 November 2025, 17:00 (CET)
Description
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Improved integration of public authorities (for compliance with regulations, strategies, etc.), social actors as well as the arts, especially cultural and creative sectors and industries (including local crafters and manufacturers), into the design and development of innovative street furniture
- Better evidence on the uses of street furniture and the role of the co-creation in the design of street furniture informs procurement processes to improve quality of experience, safety, security , sustainability , resilience to the impact of climate change and inclusiveness in neighbourhoods through street furniture.
Proposals are expected to address all of the following:
- Develop and demonstrate innovative designs for sets of street furniture which:
- Contribute to a functional common space throughout the year that includes relevant features such as resilience to vandalism and weather, protection from the effects of climate change, consideration of local specificities (such as coastal areas), and low maintenance cost.
- Improve the environmental performance of street furniture and, where relevant, integrate nature-based solutions , and sustainable, secondary (bio-based), recycled or upcycled materials as well as a digital dimension.
- Strengthen the aesthetic and cultural integrity of the history of the common space and the neighbourhoods.
- Meet the needs of different population groups throughout time (through modular and adaptive designs, and considering age, gender, mobility, etc.) by improving comfort, safety, accessibility, social interaction and well-being.
- Apply participatory methods while co-designing and prototyping innovative street furniture.
- Based on the research insights, produce recommendations to inform procurement processes for street furniture.
To achieve this, project consortia may provide financial support to SMEs, education or research institutions, and other relevant actors (such as not-for profit entities) in the form of Financial Support to Third Parties (FSTP). Given the type of action and its level of ambition, the amount to be granted to each third party may be a maximum of EUR 100 000 to allow for the prototyping and demonstration of the innovative designs.
Proposals are expected to follow a participatory and transdisciplinary approach through the integration of different actors (such as public authorities, local actors from the targeted neighbourhoods, civil society, actors from the cultural and creative sectors) and disciplines (such as architecture or design, arts and crafts, (civil) engineering, health).
This topic requires the effective contribution of social sciences and humanities (SSH) disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities.