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WoodStock Grants to support climate-smart wood construction solutions
WoodStock · Horizon Europe cascade funding · Empowering climate-smart, circular, and zero-waste use of underutilized wood from the forest and building stock in the construction sector to support the New European Bauhaus · HORIZON-CL6-2024-CLIMATE-01-5
Deadlines
- 15 Dec 2026 Deadline in 34 days
Who can apply
- Countries
- EU member states and countries associated with Horizon Europe
Money
- Total budget
- €200k
About the call
The construction sector is central to Europe's climate transition. At the same time, significant volumes of hardwood, residual wood, low-quality wood, and damaged wood remain until today underutilised. Unlocking this potential can reduce waste, strengthen local value chains, and create sustainable economic opportunities. The WoodStock grants support this transition by supporting one-year projects that combine innovation, circularity, and community engagement — embedding the New European Bauhaus (NEB) values of together, sustainable, and beautiful into practical construction solutions.
Funding may be used for one or more of the following activities :
• Demonstration : Prototyping, experimental set-up of innovations related to WoodStock.
• Testing : Physical and mechanical validation, certification preparation.
• Co-creation : Activities with local actors and users to improve the solution and embed them in the local value chain and community.
• Training : Workshops to develop new skills and knowledge.
• Dissemination : Communication about the solutions to a wide audience (including video production) (max. 20% of total budget).,
Eligible expenses may include equipment, laboratory testing, materials, logistics, multimedia production, and staff costs related to the above-mentioned activities.
Selected projects are expected to :
• Develop climate-smart wood construction solutions beyond TRL5.
• Jointly organise one co-creation session with a WoodStock Living Lab in the Netherlands, France, Slovenia, Poland, Ireland or Norway.
• Document successful and unsuccessful innovation steps they have made, and lessons learned throughout the process.
• Share experiences and lessons learned with the WoodStock consortium.
• Contribute to the WoodBook and the European Wood Construction Observatory .
• Align dissemination with the WoodStock communication partner and contribute to WoodStock communication materials by providing input.
For questions about the call, please contact grants@woodstockproject.eu .
Text from the funder (European Commission, CC BY 4.0).
Conditions in full
Funding body : Ghent University
Who can apply?
Eligible applicants must be:
• An SME, start-up, or non-profit organisation
• Or a consortium led by an SME, start-up or non-profit organisation
Applicants must be based in an EU Member State or a country associated with Horizon Europe (Pillar 2).
Professionals from architecture, design, forestry, wood industries, construction, and green building sectors, as well as members of the European Bauhaus community are encouraged to apply. Interdisciplinary collaboration across the wood construction value chain is strongly encouraged.
Two-step selection process
Step 1 - eligibility criteria
Proposals must:
• Be submitted through the Evalato submission form on the WoodStock website before the call deadline
• Be in line with the description and involve participant(s) from EU Member State(s) or countries associated with Horizon Europe
• Demonstrate how they will achieve at least ambition level I for each of the NEB values (together, sustainable, beautiful), using the NEB Compass
• Demonstrate how they will facilitate the use of at least one type of currently underutilised wood source types : hardwood, damaged wood, low-quality wood, and post-consumer and residual wood as defined by the WoodStock project
Only proposals meeting these criteria will be further evaluated.
Please note that there is a strict prohibition of double funding from the EU budget. Applicants will be required to confirm that the project, in whole or in part, has not received funding from any other EU grant and has not been or will not be submitted for funding under any other EU grant.
Step 2 - evaluation criteria
Eligible proposals will be scored (0-5 points per criterion). Each proposal must score at least 3 points for each evaluation criterion. Based on the overall scores, all proposals that meet the threshold will be ranked.
The six evaluation criteria are:
• New European Bauhaus : Embedding the NEB values (together, sustainable, beautiful). Applicants should specify their ambition levels and demonstrate how they make usre of the NEB working principles : participatory processes, multi-level engagement, and transdisciplinary approach. Applicants can consult the WoodStock zero-waste design guidelines for inspiration on how to apply the NEB values to concepts using underutilised wood.
• Circularity : Demonstrating in qualitative and quantitative ways the benefits in local wood use, resource efficiency, zero-waste design, longevity, and environmental gains. This criterion will be evaluated based on the WoodStock design guidelines.
• Community-based : Integrating clearly into the local community through co-creation activities, local employment, or a positive social impact.
• Scalability : Providing a realistic and concise plan for scaling and replicating the innovation to increase the potential for positive impact.
• Systemic : Contributing to systemic change across the wood construction value chain. Consortia that create meaningful…
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