European City Facility
Pays one winning multi-country consortium up to EUR 15 million to run a facility that hands lump-sum grants and technical support to European cities so they can turn climate plans into bankable energy-transition investments.
This funds a follow-up and scale-up of the existing European City Facility, which has so far supported the development of more than 400 investment concepts for cities' energy-efficiency and renewable-energy investments. The winning consortium re-grants 70-75% of its budget as lump-sum grants to individual cities, municipalities or their groupings, and must set up a transparent, EU-standards-compli…
LIFE Clean Energy Transition wants a follow-up and scale-up of the existing European City Facility: an operator that offers cities, municipalities and their groupings financial support plus legal, governance and financing expertise to turn Sustainable Energy and Climate Action Plans or local heating and cooling plans into mature, investable project concepts. The winning consortium runs national-level support services, capacity building for the cities it funds, best-practice exchange, and monitoring of how much investment its work actually unlocks.
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