Pre-commercial procurement of breakthrough solutions for climate proofing of public buildings
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Funding description – HORIZON-MISS-2025-01-CLIMA-06
What is financed
* Joint Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) of R&D services that deliver breakthrough, climate-proofing solutions (products, systems, nature-based solutions, digital services, etc.) for public buildings.
* Costs linked to the three competitive PCP phases (solution design, prototyping, test series) – including subcontracting of suppliers that will actually develop and test the innovations.
* Horizontal activities that enable/prepare the PCP, e.g. legal & technical tender documents, open market consultations, buyers-group coordination, citizens’ engagement, dissemination, contribution to standards, impact assessment and exploitation planning.
* Follow-up actions after the PCP (training of procurers, business modeling, replication studies, certification, links to standardisation) until the end of the 3-year project.
Indicative budget & funding rate
* Maximum EU grant per project: EUR 30 million.
* EU co-funding rate: 100 % of eligible coordination/management costs + up to 90 % of the eligible PCP procurement costs (remaining 10 % must be covered by the procurers’ own budgets).
* 1 project is expected to be funded (historical mission calls normally fund 1 large PCP per topic).
Who can apply
* A buyers’ group of at least 2 independent public procurers from 2 different EU / Associated Countries, of which minimum 1 is a contracting authority with mandate to procure for climate proofing of public buildings and minimum 1 is a public buyer with end-user facilities where solutions will be tested.
* Additional participants allowed: public or private entities that bring expertise in R&D, standardisation, certification, citizen engagement, business/SME support, finance, etc.
* Consortium must prove joint procurement capacity (signed joint procurement agreement or intention letter in proposal).
Timeline
* Call opens: 06 May 2025
* Deadline: 24 Sept 2025, 17:00 CET (single stage)
* Evaluation: Oct–Nov 2025 → Grant Agreement: Feb 2026 → Project start: Mar 2026 (indicative)
* Max. project duration: 36 months (can be shorter if justified)
Eligible cost categories (non-exhaustive)
* PCP framework agreement & phase-specific contracts
* Personnel, travel, equipment depreciation strictly needed for coordination and testing
* Sub-contracted external expertise (legal, environmental, citizen engagement, data management)
* VAT is eligible for contracting authorities that cannot recover it
* Indirect costs: 25 % flat-rate of eligible direct costs (excluding PCP subcontract values)
Key eligibility & policy alignment checks
* Challenge must match Mission Adaptation objectives (nature-based plus complementary technological solutions for structural & indoor-comfort resilience, water-energy nexus, heat-wave response, etc.)
* No technology lock-in: PCP must keep IPR with suppliers, buyers obtain free-to-use results for internal use.
* Must include a concrete plan to liaise with the Mission Implementation Platform (MIP4Adapt), Climate-ADAPT, Copernicus, New European Bauhaus, Mission Cities.
* Obligation to comply with General Annex H – PCP specific rules (three phases, competitive down-selection, confidentiality, evaluation independence, etc.).
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🇪🇺 Strategic Advantages
EU-Wide Advantages & Opportunities of the Grant HORIZON-MISS-2025-01-CLIMA-06
1. Single Market Access – 450 + Million Potential Users
• Demand aggregation through a joint PCP immediately exposes suppliers to a pan-European public-sector customer base instead of fragmented local tenders.
• Climate-proofing solutions validated in several Member States under one contract obtain early proof-of-performance across multiple climatic zones – a decisive asset when marketing to other public and private building owners EU-wide.
• By fulfilling EU Green Public Procurement (GPP) criteria during the PCP, winning vendors pre-qualify for thousands of future building renovation projects financed via national Recovery & Resilience Plans or Cohesion Policy funds.
2. Cross-Border Collaboration & Knowledge Exchange
• The buyers’ group must consist of at least two procurers from different Member/Associated States, ensuring real multinational co-creation.
• Transnational pilots enable benchmarking of solutions against diverse hazards (Mediterranean heat stress, Nordic freeze–thaw cycles, Central European flooding), accelerating technology robustness.
• Partners gain privileged access to the Mission’s Community of Practice and MIP4Adapt knowledge hub, providing ready-made risk data sets, adaptation indicators and citizen-engagement toolkits.
• Joint market consultations attract SMEs from all EU countries, boosting supplier diversity and creating cross-border value chains (e.g., bio-based insulation from FI + green-roof modules from IT + AI-driven monitoring from DE).
3. Alignment with Flagship EU Policies
• Directly delivers on the EU Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change and its 2050 climate-resilient goal.
• Supports the European Green Deal’s twin objectives of climate neutrality (mitigation) and resilience (adaptation) while feeding into the Renovation Wave target to double renovation rates.
• Contributes to the New European Bauhaus by integrating aesthetics, inclusion and sustainability in climate-resilient building retrofits.
• Strengthens the Insurance Protection Gap agenda: demonstrators generate actuarial evidence that can lower premiums for adapted public infrastructure across the EU.
4. EU-Level Regulatory Harmonisation
• Test results can feed into ongoing revisions of:
• Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) delegated acts on climate-risk reporting.
• CEN/CENELEC standards for nature-based retrofit products.
• Having one set of joint functional specs reduces duplication of technical assessments, certification costs and administrative burden for both procurers and suppliers in future roll-outs.
5. Powerful Innovation Ecosystem
• Horizon Europe rules ensure automatic access to results & data for all EU researchers, accelerating follow-up R&I in FP10 and national programmes.
• Synergies with EIT Climate-KIC, Built4People Partnership and the Cities Mission allow scale-up support, venture capital matchmaking and living-lab testbeds.
• The PCP format funds up to 100 % of eligible R&D procurement costs plus 70 % of other activities, de-risking investment for public buyers and SMEs alike.
6. Funding Synergies & Leverage
• Results can be picked up under
• LIFE Climate Action (pilots → replication).
• ERDF / Interreg (cross-border deployment corridors).
• InvestEU – Sustainable Infrastructure Window (commercial roll-out loans).
• Procurers may blend their PCP co-funding with national resilience or recovery funds without breaching state-aid rules, because PCP is exempt under the R&D exemption.
7. Scale & Socio-Economic Impact
• Estimated EU public building stock >1 million; even a 1 % penetration post-PCP equals 10,000 retrofits, worth €8-10 billion in market potential.
• Creation of green jobs in construction, digital monitoring and nature-based solutions supply chains across rural and urban areas.
• Contributes to EU heatwave preparedness: every €1 invested in adaptation saves €4–€10 in future climate-damage costs (EUCRA, 2024).
8. PCP-Specific Strategic Value
• Competitive phased approach (solution design → prototype → field testing) drives prices down while boosting quality, giving procurers best value for money.
• Intellectual Property stays with suppliers, but buyers receive royalty-free licences for internal use, enabling further EU-funded public procurements without new IP negotiations.
• Mandatory wide dissemination of tender docs and results sets de-facto EU benchmarks for climate-proof retrofit performance, influencing future tenders beyond the consortium.
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Key Take-Away: Competing solely at national level would confine suppliers to narrow climatic contexts, smaller budgets and fragmented standards. Operating under this Horizon Europe PCP unlocks pan-European demand, leverages the full breadth of EU adaptation policy, and positions both procurers and innovators at the forefront of a rapidly expanding EU-wide market for climate-resilient public buildings.
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