Partnership website: https://dutpartnership.eu/
The Driving Urban Transitions is an co-funded partnership, bringing together private and public stakeholders in the research and innovation ecosystems. The DUT partnership incorporates all urban stakeholders (local authorities, municipalities, business and citizens) to co-create innovative, systemic and people-centric approaches, tools, methods and services in support of urban transformative transitions.
CET Partnership aims to achieve this through annual calls addressing three transition pathways, further divided in three themes:
There are two active Flemish participating members in the DUT call: Flanders Innovation & Entrepreneurship (VLAIO) and the Fund for Scientific Research (FWO). The latest DUT call for Flemish participants is open until 21 November 2023.
VLAIO
For consortia applying through VLAIO, more information can be found on the official webpage. Applications can include a research project, a development project or a PILBO application.
VLAIO has a total budget commitment of €800.000. A project can attain a maximum funding of €500.000.
PILBO has various requirements and funding characteristics:
It is highly advised to contact VLAIO to ensure project funding eligibility (see contact details below).
FWO
For consortia applying through FWO, more information can be found on the official webpage. Applications can include fundamental research ("FO") and strategic basic research ("SBO").
FWO will support at least three Flemish projects with a maximum funding support of €250.000. A project can run for a maximum of 36 months.
A project coordinator can only apply for one DUT project as coordinator. Project applicants can only join a maximum of two different DUT projects/consortia.
It is highly advised to contact FWO to ensure project funding eligibility (see contact details below).
The DUT Partnership has a matchmaking platform for interested parties to connect and collaborate.
Partnerships group the EC and private and/or public partners, to coordinate and streamline the research & innovation initiatives and funding in some selected key domains.
The Horizon2020 project BEAT-AF brings together 9 European renowned clinical centres in France, Belgium, Czechia, Germany and Austria. Together, the consortium strives to revolutionize Atrial Fibrillation (AF) treatment through catheter ablation and contribute to decrease the huge burden of AF in Europe. The BEAT-AF project kicked off in 2021 and will run until 2026. The department of electrophysiology of the AZ Sint-Jan Hospital in Bruges is partner in the project and has so far contributed to the pre-clinical development, the first in man studies and first registries of the revolutionary AF treatment put forward by the consortium. The first pilot studies show that the treatment is safe, effective and efficient.