Innovative models for collective community investment and ownership
Funding for research to pilot and assess innovative, community-driven investment and ownership models in neighbourhood revitalization, aligned with New European Bauhaus values, across at least three EU countries.
Funder: European Commission
Due Dates: December 1, 2027 (Full application submission deadline, 17:00 Brussels time)
Funding Amounts: Total budget €10.5M; typical grant around €3.5M; 3 projects funded; lump sum grant; project duration typically 36–48 months.
Summary: Supports the development and validation of innovative, community-driven investment and ownership models to empower diverse local stakeholders in revitalizing neighbourhoods.
Key Information: Proposals must pilot models in at least three neighbourhoods in different EU Member States or Associated Countries.
Description
This Horizon Europe funding opportunity aims to advance innovative models for collective community investment and ownership, with a focus on empowering local stakeholders—including marginalized and vulnerable groups—to co-create, invest in, own, and benefit from local commercial, housing, transitional, or mixed-use assets. Projects must address either a community equity investment model or an occupant equity model, developed and validated in at least three neighbourhoods across different EU Member States or Associated Countries. The initiative is closely linked to the New European Bauhaus (NEB) values of sustainability, inclusiveness, and aesthetics, and requires a participatory, transdisciplinary approach integrating social sciences and humanities (SSH) expertise.
Projects should assess the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of these models, tackle systemic challenges (such as market dynamics and long-term financial viability), and provide recommendations for scaling and adapting the models across diverse local and cultural contexts. Engagement with the NEB hub for sharing results and impact assessment is a mandatory part of the grant.
