Mission 100 Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities by 2030

The Work Programme 2025 of the Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission, in line with the Implementation Plan of the Cities Mission, supports the implementation of the Mission by providing strong and direct support to cities committed to climate-neutrality, enabling them to implement their climate action plans and achieve climate-neutrality by 2030. The cities benefitting from these actions will act as experimentation and innovation hubs for other European cities aiming to become climate-neutral by 2050.

Cities’ green and digital transformation with the aim of climate-neutrality is associated with important co-benefits and urban qualities such as reduced air and noise pollution, more sustainable mobility, improved health and well-being, reduced urban environmental footprints, enhanced urban greening, more efficient use of energy and infrastructures, as well as improved waste and water management. It also improves policy coherence across sectors and stimulates participatory and inclusive decision-making.

Therefore, in addition to a significant contribution to the objective of the European Green Deal to make Europe climate-neutral by 2050 at the latest, the supported actions will also contribute to the UN Agenda 2030, the Urban Agenda for the EU, the New Leipzig Charter, the Fit for 55 strategy, the EU Industrial Strategy, the Green Deal Industrial Plan and the Net-Zero Industry Act, the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan, the Circular Economy Action Plan, the Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy and the related new EU urban mobility framework, the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, Europe’s Digital Decade and the EU Strategy on adaptation to climate change.

The topics of the Work Programme 2025 reflect the cross-cutting nature of the Cities Mission and most of them have been designed as joint activities with other parts of the Horizon Europe programme, namely Clusters 4, 5, 6, other Missions, co-programmed partnerships, as well as in close coordination with other topics, such as one under the Ocean Mission (HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-05).

Call Topics with the deadline 20 Jan 2026

• HORIZON-MISS-2026-04-PCP-CIT-01: Boosting the transformation towards climate-neutral cities, the net-zero economy and open strategic autonomy through Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP)

Full text from the work programme " Missions" (2025) can be found here.