Driving Urban Transitions (DUT)

Driving Urban Transitions Partnership Joint Call

Funds international consortia including Swedish companies running research and innovation projects on sustainable cities through the Driving Urban Transitions partnership.

Eligibility · Sweden (national funding within a 27-country European call)

⚠ This may reflect a past cycle — verify the current call on the funder's site.

The Driving Urban Transitions Partnership Joint Call is a research and innovation grant for international project teams, with the Swedish part jointly funded by the Swedish Energy Agency (Energimyndigheten), the research council Formas, and the innovation agency Vinnova. It sits under the Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) partnership, a European program within Horizon Europe (Swedish: Driving Urban Transitions to a sustainable future). The call funds international research and/or innovation projects that take on the challenges of helping cities move to more sustainable economies and societies. This page describes the third joint call of the partnership.

The three Swedish agencies put up a combined 55 million SEK so that actors based in Sweden can take part. Across the whole call, 27 European countries participate with a combined budget of about 47 million EUR; the page does not state a per-project minimum or maximum award, so those figures are recorded as absent. A funded project can start at the earliest in September 2025 and can run for at most three years. Funding is structured as a grant.

Who can apply: a group of actors made up of researchers, public organizations, companies (not sole proprietorships), and civil-society organizations. For-profit companies have a real applicant path as consortium members. Each project team must consist of at least three partners from three different countries, so applying alone is not possible — this is a consortium-only call.

How to apply: the call uses a two-step process. Step 1 is a short application, due 14 November 2024 at 13:00 CET. Applicants who pass step 1 submit the full application in step 2, due 24 April 2025 at 13:00 CET. Applications are submitted through the electronic system run by the Romanian organization UEFISCDI (uefiscdi-direct.ro), which handles the call on behalf of the partnership. The full call text and the national criteria that Swedish applicants must meet are published on the partnership website (dutpartnership.eu).

Practical caveats: both deadlines for this third call have passed, so it is recorded as between cycles, with a future call expected under the recurring partnership. Sole proprietorships (enskild firma) cannot apply. Because Swedish funding flows through three agencies and the project is multi-country, Swedish partners must follow the national criteria as well as the joint call rules. The page does not publish a per-project award size, scoring weights, or a numerical threshold, so those are left absent rather than guessed.