Specific Grant Agreements to the Framework Partnership Agreement (FPA) for the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission Platform

<p>This programme is about enabling&nbsp;<em>system conditions</em>, and complementary supporting interventions to achieve the accelerated&nbsp;decarbonisation&nbsp;(substantive emissions reductions)&nbsp;required&nbsp;to achieve climate neutrality by 2030,&nbsp;by inducing change in governance, multi-actor approaches, citizen participation, finance, digital&nbsp;systems&nbsp;and/or&nbsp;organisational&nbsp;structures.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;<strong>Activities eligible for funding are:</strong>&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Interventions should consist of the following activities to be eligible for funding:</strong>&nbsp;</p><ol><li data-list="bullet" class="ql-align-justify"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Innovative implementation activities to support climate-neutrality, including the deployment of&nbsp;cutting-edge&nbsp;(new or improved) technology, product, process, service, solution, policy, or governance model at city level, explored in a cross-sectoral and systemic manner.&nbsp;</li><li data-list="bullet" class="ql-align-justify"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Deployment of public and private capital in purpose-built capital structures that enable blended financing in the&nbsp;implementation&nbsp;activities.&nbsp;</li><li data-list="bullet" class="ql-align-justify"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Activities aiming to build cross-sector collaboration that&nbsp;advance&nbsp;new governance and deployment models.&nbsp;</li><li data-list="bullet" class="ql-align-justify"><span class="ql-ui" contenteditable="false"></span>Legal and financial&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;to structure/audit and de-risk project financial packages&nbsp;</li></ol><p class="ql-align-justify">&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">Please&nbsp;note:&nbsp;proposed interventions may cover several or&nbsp;all of&nbsp;these descriptions of eligible activities – this list is intended to allow for flexibility in proposing interventions, rather than limiting proposed interventions to any one eligible activity alone.&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">&nbsp;Applicants will be requested at the point of&nbsp;submitting&nbsp;a proposal to describe and declare the links between their proposed interventions and the eligible&nbsp;activities as&nbsp;listed above.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p class="ql-align-justify">&nbsp;<strong>For more&nbsp;information&nbsp;please refer to the&nbsp;Call Guidelines.</strong></p>