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European City Facility EUCF – powering your potential

Post author By Stefania Felicia Pavel
Post date August 5, 2020

How to save energy tomorrow by acting today? The question countless cities and municipalities ask. This is the same issue EUCF seeks to solve.

New help for old problems

EUCF is set up under the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation of the European Union. It facilitates the transformation of energy and climate strategies into implementable investment concepts.

EUCF offers financial and technical assistance for sustainable energy practices to cities, municipalities, and their groupings from the European Union and the United Kingdom. The ultimate objective of EUCF is to help initiate energy investment projects across European municipalities.

Financing the change

EUCF provides tailored, rapid, and simplified financial support for developing investment concepts. EUCF funds:

in-house staff
external experts/sub-contractors
feasibility/social/market studies
engineering/financial analyses

The grant amounts to EUR 60.000 as lump sum, no co-financing required. Additional funding can be drawn from:

private sector
other EU-funded instruments, such as the European Fund for Strategic Investments, European Structural and Investment Funds, various Project Development Assistance facilities, like ELENA facility of the European Investment Bank
various national investment platforms.

ABC of EUCF

A – Application

There are three regional calls for application: 1. Central and Eastern Europe, 2. Nordic countries & Western Europe, 3. Southern Europe. Applying is a two-step process: eligibility check and full application.

The eligibility check is a five-item questionnaire which launches the application form in the EUCF website user zone. The application form must include: information on the applicant, description of the investment concept, respectively investment project.

Successful applications move onto the Grant Agreement phase where the beneficiaries receive 70% of the grant. Remaining 30% is awarded after the validation of the investment concept. The unsuccessful applications are redirected to the EUCF Helpdesk for feedback in view of potential reapplication.

B – Benefits

The EUCF offers a toolbox to further assist the beneficiaries:

Firstly, after obtaining the grant, for the upcoming twelve months, the EUCF provides support for development of the investment concept in the beneficiaries’ national language. Secondly, there is a two-year monitoring period when the investment concept is implemented, supervised, and documented via two simple monitoring forms submitted to EUCF.

C – Chronology

The current EUCF Calls for Proposals are:

1^st call 25 May 2020-October 2020
2^nd call March – April 2021
3^rd call October – November 2021
4^th call May – June 2022

Apply for EUCF today and power on the potential for change in your city/municipality!

2nd DESK Newsletter

Post author By katerinaj
Post date February 4, 2020

You can download the second newsletter of the project DESK here.
DESK_2_Newsletter_EN

First TICTAC Newsletter

Post author By katerinaj
Post date January 21, 2020

3rd Partners Meeting in Italy – DESK

Post author By katerinaj
Post date January 2, 2020

The DESK project partners have successfully concluded the 3rd Transnational Project Meeting in Potenza, Italy.
Follow us on Facebook and find out more about the project: https://www.facebook.com/DESK-362474434309114/

TICTAC: Kick-off meeting in Prague

Post author By katerinaj
Post date December 4, 2019

A kick-off meeting was held in Prague on November 29, 2019, for the new Erasmus+ project called TICTAC. The main aim of the meeting was to deal with intellectual outputs, to involve individual partners in their processing and, among other things, dissemination and project management.

The meeting was great and in a relaxed atmosphere and we are looking forward to further cooperation.

Final Newsletter of our 3D-Help project

Post author By Lucie Marková
Post date October 30, 2019

Click here to read our final newsletter!

Final meeting and conference of 3D-HELP project

Post author By Lucie Marková
Post date October 4, 2019

On September 23, 2019, EuDA organized the final partner meeting of our 3D-HELP project.
All partners (from Croatia, Lithuania, Romania and Malta) came to Prague to discuss the last steps of the project, its dissemination and sustainability.
The next day, September 24, we organized a final conference not only for the project partners, but also for public, such as adult learners and teachers. The project and its outputs were disseminated and the participants could try to create and print their own key chain using 3D printer, with the help of lecturers from PRUSA RESEARCH.
Both events were very successfull and the project comes to its final phase. Do not miss all information about the project on its website and Facebook page!

Third 3D-Help Newsletter

Post author By Lucie Marková
Post date August 6, 2019

DESK 1st Nesletter

Post author By katerinaj
Post date July 2, 2019

2nd Partners Meeting in Poland – DESK

Post author By katerinaj
Post date May 22, 2019

The DESK project partners have successfully concluded the 2nd Transnational Project Meeting in Pila, Poland.
The meeting’s goals among others were the approval of the established State of the Art Review (O1) and also discuss the emerging Curriculum (O2). In addition, sample material of courseware that can be developed was demonstrated during this meeting. In the end, the partners were able to define exactly how the DESK Training Toolbox (O4) content will be developed and who does what in the remaining project period.