Viable Cities: Energy-Positive Districts for Climate-Neutral Cities

Viable Cities: Energy-Positive Districts for Climate-Neutral Cities

Funds Swedish consortia developing energy-positive city districts through Viable Cities grants for innovation and demonstration projects.

Eligibility · Sweden (within the European Positive Energy Districts collaboration)

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

Viable Cities: Energy-Positive Districts is a grant call run by Energimyndigheten (the Swedish Energy Agency; Swedish: Energipositiva stadsdelar för klimatneutrala städer). It funds Swedish participation in the European Positive Energy Districts (PED) collaboration, which supports city districts that produce at least as much energy as they use. It is the second call in a recurring series in this area.

The call has a total budget of SEK 15,000,000 shared across all funded Swedish participants. The source page does not state a per-project minimum or maximum award, so the amount each consortium can receive is not published here. Money is awarded as a grant for one of two project forms: innovation projects or demonstration projects. The work is co-funded under the wider European PED collaboration, and applications run alongside partners in other participating countries.

This is a consortium grant, not a single-company grant. A project consortium must include at least three independent actors drawn from at least two of these groups: universities, colleges or research institutes; companies; the public sector; and civil-society organisations. Because companies are named as one of the actor groups, a for-profit company can take part as a consortium partner. The application is transnational: it joins Swedish actors with partners elsewhere in the European PED network.

Full applications are submitted through the electronic application system run by the Austria Research Promotion Agency (FFG), the shared portal for the European PED collaboration; the Swedish Energy Agency page does not publish a direct application link. The deadline for this round was 24 February 2022 at 12:00, and the page was last updated on 25 October 2021, so this specific round is closed.

Because the deadline has passed and no successor call is currently published on this page, treat the round as closed and watch the Swedish Energy Agency and Viable Cities sites for the next PED call before planning a submission. Confirm the current budget, per-project funding limits, eligible-cost rules and the FFG submission steps against the live call text when a new round opens, as those details can change between rounds.