The call for pre-proposals closed on 17 March. Approximately 50 pre-proposals will be selected. It is foreseen to announce the decision in May.
The ERA-NET Smart Cities and Communities (ENSCC) – in cooperation with the Smart Cities Member States Initiative – was launched in December 2014. For this call a two-stage procedure has been adopted. The successful consortia will then be invited to elaborate their ideas to full proposals. The deadline for full proposals is on 15 September. Eligible proposals, both pre-proposals and full proposals, will be evaluated in an open competition in which an independent international expert panel will rank proposals according to the call’s evaluation criteria.
In December 2015 or January 2016 announcement of funding decisions will be made to main applicants. Expected start-up of projects will be during the period from December 2015 to March 2016.