Innovative models for collective community investment and ownership

About

Opens for applications on 2027-05-05. A European Commission call for proposals. Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Community [1] stakeholders co-create [1] and participate [3] in innovative community investment and community ownership models. Community stakeholders benefit from increased local democratic participation, social equity and cohesion, a sense of place and belonging, and local economic development. Scope: Collective community investment and ownership models can empower diverse local community stakeholders to collectively invest in, own, manage, and benefit from local commercial, housing, transitional, or mixed-use assets. By directly engaging community stakeholders, such bottom-up and place-based approaches respond to local community needs and preferences and create local agency and long-term stewardship in the revitalisation of neighbourhoods. Proposals are expected to address all of the following: Develop a collective community investment or ownership model that involves diverse community stakeholders, including marginalised groups or those in a vulnerable situation, in the co-creation and revitalisation of neighbourhoods in line with the New European Bauhaus by focusing on one o

Who can apply

Usually organisations in EU member states and associated countries, often in a consortium. Some calls are open to partners from other countries. Check the call conditions.

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• Researchers
• NGOs
• Founders