Guide to Establishing a City Facility

A City Facility is both a pool of financial and technical experts to support local governments when designing a project and a grant allocation mechanism to give them the resources to describe their investment needs. It bridges the gap between the many wonderful ideas emerging at the local level and the existing funding streams to support their development by joining the world of finance and cities. 

We believe the model we have designed with the EU City Facility under Horizon 2020 can be duplicated at regional, national and local levels, depending on its size and capacity (see Appendix 1 on the geographical scale). Indeed, the Facility is most effective when it is embedded in the national/regional landscape relying on existing networks of experts and know-how. Our pilot model at the EU level was focused on energy efficiency and energy production projects, but can be extended to other areas of the energy transition with related scientific expertise. 

This document is a first practical guide on why and how we imagine that the EU City Facility model can be replicated at a regional, national or local level.

Guide to Establishing a City Facility