BLURN (Blue Literacy helps residents connect with nature) response to HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03 by uniting researchers and NGOs with municipalities and their residents to shape people’s understanding and lived experience of green and blue transitions by examining how restoring a riverbank or wetland, creating rain gardens or natural flood-management areas, Improving public access to rivers, lakes or waterfronts, or reintro-ducing streams into urban spaces help residents feel more connected to nature.

Pre-application consortium management coordinator: Sandra Lund, email: info@livinglabsnetwork.com

Deadline: 1 December 2026

• Type: Horizon Europe Research & Innovation Action Lump Sum

• Total topic budget: €15 000 000,00

• Expected EU contribution: approximately €5 000 000 million per project

• Expected awards: 3 projects

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Demonstrated methodology is used by architects, spatial planners, designers and other relevant actors to identify the extent to which neighbourhoods and communities are intergenerational.

• Demonstrated solutions for intergenerational neighbourhoods and communities are available to public authorities, public/private real estate developers and owners, and stakeholders involved in the green transition of neighbourhoods.

• The demonstrated solutions make a significant contribution to intergenerational living and measurably advance the green transition in the neighbourhoods (for example in the field of sustainable mobility, accessibility, climate-resilience, water resilience, and/or biodiversity conservation).