Horizon Europe info days – NEB Facility

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The NEB Facility is a multi-annual (2025-2027) and cross-cutting tool to revitalise European neighbourhoods with design for sustainability and inclusion. It will support projects on the sustainable transformation of the built environment. The NEB Facility aims to make the inhabitants of the built environment partners of change.

Activities under the NEB Facility should contribute to the wider social acceptance of the innovative solutions developed, accelerating the just green and digital transformation and strengthening and restoring citizens’ trust in democracy. They should also explore the built environment’s function in the conservation and restoration of natural ecosystems, its relation to historical urban, peri-urban or rural areas, the improvement of social cohesion as well as people’s health and well-being. The NEB Facility is composed of a research and innovation (R&I) component and a roll-out component.

The R&I component will cover fundamental research, testing and demonstration. It will be implemented as a cross-cluster issue in the Horizon Europe work programme. The roll-out component of the NEB Facility will seek to facilitate the uptake, further development and deployment of new knowledge, methods, approaches and technologies developed under the R&I component. 

NEB Facility’s R&I component will deliver on several specific expected impacts as defined in the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan 2025-2027. In this part of the ‘main’ work programme 2025, each destination of the R&I component will deliver on three to four expected impacts. This destination-based work programme structure follows a thematic centre-of-gravity approach, but activities within a destination may be of cross-cutting nature and will often contribute to several expected impacts. The specific contribution to the overall expected impacts is explained in the introductory text of each destination. 

The info day will present the topics under the following three destinations:  

1. Connecting the green transformation, social inclusion and local democracy
2. Circular and regenerative approaches for the built environment
3. Innovative funding and new business models for the transformation of neighbourhoods

The info session will not include an in-depth presentation of topics for each destination. We invite you to watch pre-recorded presentations of the topics prior to the event. 

More information about the Horizon Europe and its work programme for 2025 is available on the following links: 

• Horizon Europe strategic plan
• Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025
• Horizon Europe Work Programme 2025 - NEB Facility 

How to attend the event?

The event will be live streamed. No registration is required to follow the live stream. 

Registrations to receive a reminder about the event had closed. 

How to ask questions 

Ahead of the event, we advise you to watch the pre-recorded presentations and to send your questions in advance. Questions can be submitted via Sli.do by using #NEBFacilityInfoday25, so that they can be answered fully and in priority during the live event.

Pre-recorded videos 

• Destination 1: Connecting the green transformation, social inclusion and local democracy Video | Presentation slides
• Destination 2: Circular and regenerative approaches for the built environment Video | Presentation slides
• Destination 3: Innovative funding and new business models for the transformation of neighbourhoods Video | Presentation slides

Other useful video resources 

• Tips for Applicants and Novelties Video | Presentation slides
• International Cooperation Video | Presentation slides
• Lump Sum Funding in Horizon Europe: How does it work, How to write a proposal
• The Gender Equality Plan eligibility criterion in Horizon Europe: Who is concerned? How to comply with it? (23 June 2022)

Webinars

• Find opportunities and submit a proposal in Horizon Europe (13 March 2025)
• Horizon Implementation Day: Grant Management in Horizon Europe (3 April 2025)
• How to prepare a successful proposal in Horizon Europe (24 March 2021)
• A successful proposal for Horizon Europe: Scientific-technical excellence is key, but don’t forget the other aspects (21 April 2021)
• Other horizontal topics - past events

Matchmaking event

Are you looking for partners to prepare a proposal addressing a topic under the upcoming calls in Horizon Europe NEB Facility? Check the matchmaking event that will take place online on 5 June 2025 from 13:30 (CET) onwards. 

Contact

Any questions? Contact the Research Enquiry Service (RES) for any general question on Horizon Europe or specific questions on NEB Facility destinations and topics. You can also find your National contact points or visit the FAQ section on the Funding portal.