The Making Cities Work call of JPI Urban Europe invites municipalities, businesses, researchers, civil society and other stakeholders to build transnational consortia to create challenge-driven innovation projects for European urban areas that have the potential to result in commercially successful services and products.

The projects submitted in this call should:
• Have a challenge-driven approach with the problem owners in an active role and relevant stakeholders to address this problem in the consortium;
• Have transdisciplinary and trans-sectoral collaboration with active cooperation between all stakeholders throughout the project;
• Be focused on innovative solutions, getting to a proof of concept, demonstration, or test replicability and scalability;
• Show the added value of European collaboration.
• Should describe the way in which gender and diversity aspects are relevant to the project.

The contents of projects resulting from this call should address one or more of the following topics:
• Re-thinking urban mobility: Innovative solutions to reduce city congestion
• Implementing the Smart Sustainable City: From pilot projects within sectors and neighbourhoods to cross-sectoral services for citizens and business
• Creating the city together: Closing the gap between citizens, companies and city policy
• Innovative and sustainable city change: Reducing the negative impacts of construction sites

Proposals for collaborative transnational projects should cover challenge-driven innovation and implementation in close collaboration with the end users such as citizens or public authorities and should refer to the topic addressed in the proposal and fit the available funding for the project partners on the national or regional level.

The call for proposals is open until 28 Feb 2018 (12:00 noon CET).