CommuniCity

CommuniCity conducts diverse innovation pilots across a wide range of local communities, including urban, peri-urban, and rural areas, with the goal of empowering hard-to-reach and marginalised communities. It operates in three cycles of increasing scale: during the first pilot round thirteen pilots launched and twenty-five during the second pilot round. Sixty-two pilots are currently being launched as part of the third and final round. 

CommuniCity develops an inclusive, community-driven, agile innovation and experimentation model. Using this model, the project runs an extensive co-creation process, starting by involving local communities in defining challenges and then developing innovative solutions through open calls promoted at both the European and local levels. This approach will generate new insights into local community innovation processes, as well as principles and models for scaling these insights in an inclusive and sustainable manner. Additionally, CommuniCity will produce numerous novel innovations rooted in the needs of local communities, offering an exemplary model that can be followed across Europe. 

The project’s goal is to advance community-driven innovation throughout society, including its margins, ensuring that these innovations, through their development and testing, are better aligned with European values and serve the needs of all, particularly marginalised groups and communities 

This project is funded under the Horizon Europe programme, with Grant Agreement number 101070325.