December 2024
DUT Calls 2025 & 2026: Stakeholder Consultation
The Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership invites stakeholders to shape the priorities for its 2025 and 2026 joint calls for research and innovation projects. Through a participatory survey, contributors can provide input on key urban challenges across the partnership’s three thematic areas, the Transition Pathways: Circular Urban Economies, Positive Energy Districts, and the 15-minute City. The survey results will inform the development of calls aimed at creating more inclusive, sustainable, and liveable cities. The survey will be open until 19 January 2025.
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The survey is open until 19 January 2025.
The Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership is a public-public partnership between currently 68 partners from 29 European countries, and the European Commission. As a transnational research and innovation programme, we address key challenges that cities face in their endeavour to become sustainable and enhance the quality of life for their citizens.
DUT launches yearly joint calls for R&I projects, with the intention of connecting stakeholders from different backgrounds, creating communities and capacities, and translate the results of the funded projects into practice. We follow a participatory and co-creative approach, link place-based interventions with a system innovation perspective, and apply a broad definition of innovation.
Aims of the stakeholder consultation
This survey provides an opportunity for you to reflect on and shape the call priorities for DUT’s transnational joint calls 2025 and 2026. As a DUT partner, policy maker, urban practitioner, creator, entrepreneur and/or researcher working on urban transitions, we invite you to participate in this survey. We hope for your support in identifying and highlighting the most pressing urban challenges and priorities that will help cities become more inclusive, sustainable and liveable. To this end, we build on your expertise and experience and kindly ask you to answer this survey.
The results and outcomes will feed into the call development process with the participating funding agencies. The DUT Partnership will process your data in accordance with GDPR regulations. Thus, your responses are anonymous, used for internal purposes only, and will not be published. If you would like to stay up to date about our upcoming events, results of our projects, call openings and many more, register for our newsletter.
How to fill in the survey
- This survey is structured along the DUT Partnership’s three thematic areas, or as we refer to them, the Transition Pathways (TPs). If you would like more information on the TPs, you can read about them here or take a look at our DUT Roadmap.
- Circular Urban Economy (CUE) on urban circularity and greening
- Positive Energy Districts (PED) on urban energy transitions
- 15-minute City (15mC) on urban mobility transitions
- The survey includes one separate section for each Transition Pathway. You are free to give your input on just one or two sections or even on all sections. You can select them in the beginning of the survey according to your interest and expertise.
- The different survey sections will be displayed one after the other. Click “Yes” and you will be able to see and answer questions for this section. If you select “No”, you will be redirected to the next section.
- All call priorities follow the same structure:
- First, a short challenge description of a call priority is presented
- Second, statements as central aspects and potential focus areas explain thematic aspects or potential priorities.
- You can leave us input and feedback on the presented priorities on two levels:
- Rate the relevance of the overall priority and of the statements on a scale from 1 to 4 (with 1 being “not relevant” and 4 being “very relevant”)
- At the end of each priority, we invite you to reflect on the statements and highlight, reflect and/or add any missing aspects.
- All mandatory questions are marked with an asterisk (*). They must be answered to navigate through the survey. All ranking questions are mandatory, all open-ended questions are optional.
- Completing each survey section will take about approx. 15 minutes.
- The survey will be open until 19 January 2025. You do not need to complete it all at once – you can always save after finishing one section and continue later (but you must use the same browser to save your progress! Nevertheless, we recommend completing it in one turn and have it over and done with).
- If you have any questions, concerns, or feedback on the survey, please contact Sophie Hödl, sophie.hoedl@austriatech.at.