MOSAIC aims to study, prove and assess how co-creation practices involving all actors of the quadruple helix (university, industry, government, citizens) can be beneficial to mission-oriented open innovation settings, where concrete solutions to today’s challenges are sought. MOSAIC’s expertise and research activities produce concrete instruments and recommendations, to be used in European cities and regions willing to engage in mission-oriented approaches but also to enrich the work of Horizon Europe researchers and stakeholders more broadly.

Through this call for Expressions of Interest, MOSAIC partners aim to select a group of cities for collaboration in their citizen engagement activities within the context of their involvement in the Horizon Europe Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission . In their application to be part of the mission, cities will be strongly invited to carefully plan and showcase their citizen engagement initiatives through co-design and co-creation approaches. Whether they are a frontrunner city, already advanced on their Climate City Contract, or taking the first steps into the mission, MOSAIC can provide unique expertise on sound citizen engagement approaches tailored to this specific mission context.

WHAT CAN MOSAIC OFFER TO CITIES?

WHAT IS EXPECTED FROM CITIES COLLABORATING WITH MOSAIC?

Selected cities will benefit from MOSAIC partners’ expertise in mission-oriented approaches and open innovation. Tailored support, as well as capacity building sessions, will be provided at no cost for cities. In some cases, MOSAIC can also cover costs (i.e. hosting, logistics, subsistence, etc.) generated from the implementation of citizen engagement activities locally.

Cities applying for this call commit to dedicate a reasonable amount of time to meet with MOSAIC experts and provide them with information that allows them to familiarise with the cities’ ongoing activities within the context of the mission, as well as with specificities of their local context. Cities collaborating with MOSAIC are expected to be interested in exploring the potential of citizen engagement in their pathway towards mission objectives, and willing to test the MOSAIC methodological approach to co-design and co-creation in the mission setting.

TIMELINE & DEADLINE

As a first step, and following the Mission Implementation Plan, MOSAIC will provide support to selected cities in addressing citizen engagement aspects in their Expression of Interest for the Cities Mission . Tailored support to selected cities will be provided during the months of December 2021 and January 2022, until the deadline for submission of the Expression of Interest for the Cities Mission (foreseen for the end of January 2022).

Throughout 2022 and 2023, MOSAIC will provide further support to selected cities to address citizen engagement aspects in the preparation of their Climate City Contracts. Where possible, MOSAIC will select a small number of mission projects, that is concrete, identified challenges which can be addressed through co-creation, and support the process leading to the identification of shared solutions.

Click here to apply for MOSAIC call for interest. The call will close on Wednesday 24 November at 23:59 CET.

Download a PDF copy of the call here. 

MOSAIC-MISSION.EU'S PRIVACY POLICY

MOSAIC is committed to protecting the privacy of all visitors to mosaic-mission.eu and all participants in the project (subscribers to our newsletters, participants in our events and other activities).

By using this website or submitting your information to us in any way, you agree to us using your personal information as described below.

HOW WE USE AND KEEP YOUR INFORMATION

When you visit our website

We use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns (i.e. number of visitors to the various parts of the site, IP). This information is only processed in an aggregate way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website.

In addition, we will make it clear, what we intend to do with your personal information, whenever we collect it (please see section below).

When we provide links to websites of other organisations, this privacy policy does not cover how such organisation process personal information. We encourage you to read their privacy policies when you visit their website.

When you complete ‘Subscribe to our Newsletter'

We collect your email address - when you provided it to us - to send you the Citizen Engagement Quarterly newsletter. The Citizen Engagement Quarterly newsletter is a collaborative newsletter between H2020 funded projects, managed by the MOSAIC project. Your information may therefore also be shared between these projects and their partners.

The legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent under article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. As we rely on your consent to process your data, you have the right to withdraw consent for data processing - and thereby unsubscribe to the newsletter service - at any time by contacting MOSAIC@errin.eu. You will also be given the opportunity to unsubscribe or change your subscription preferences at any point by clicking ‘Unsubscribe’ or ‘Update subscription preferences’ respectively on the footer of any email you receive from us.

We use Mailchimp, a third-party data processor, to distribute the Citizen Engagement Quarterly newsletter and therefore we will provide them with your data. Please read the Mailchimp privacy policy (https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/) and take note that Mailchimp uses web beacons to gather information about the success of their email campaigns (e.g. when an email was opened, IP address).

When you register and attend one of our events

If you register to one of our events - both physical and online events - you will be asked to provide some personal data (name, organisation, email address, dietary requirements) to process your registration. We may use your email address to send you any related, additional information prior to and after the event. Depending on your role in the event, your name and organisation may be included in the event programme. We may share your personal data with other organisations outside the MOSAIC project, with the sole purpose of event arrangements in order to provide you with registration badges, catering, internet access or online meeting links. The legitimate interests of the project constitute the legal basis for processing your personal data. The project must keep event records as evidence of activities for the funders and keep a register of the number of attendees to the events for reporting purposes. The information will be kept during the project and for 5 years after the end of the project as evidence of activities towards our funders.

When the events are held in official buildings, such as embassies or the EU institutions, we may ask you to provide us with additional personal details such as your date of birth and passport number. The purpose for this collection is the security measures imposed by the hosting institution, with whom the data will be shared for the above-mentioned reasons. The legitimate interests of the project constitute the legal basis for processing your personal data, i.e. to run a safe event. The information will be kept during the project and for 5 years after the end of the project as evidence of activities towards our funders.

We may record videos at the events as well as take pictures and, therefore, you may appear in some of the videos and photos. For online events, we may also record the sessions. We will ask for your consent to record footage and take pictures of you, as well as to record online events, and to publish it on our website and accounts on social media, before an event commences. As we rely on your consent for processing your data, you have the right to withdraw consent for data processing at any time by contacting MOSAIC@errin.eu. If the videos and photos are publicly displayed on the website and the social media channels, they will be kept for as long as the website and the social media accounts are active. In addition, they will be kept for 5 years after the project ends as evidence of project activities towards our funders.

Information on relevant stakeholders

In some instances, we gather the contact details (name, email address, organisation) of relevant stakeholders from publicly available sources in order to invite you to participate in the project and to effectively disseminate the project results. The legitimate interests of the project constitute the legal basis for processing your personal data, i.e. participation in project related activities and dissemination of project results. The data will not be shared with third parties and will only be used for the above-mentioned purposes.

Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to employees and third parties (data processors) who act for us for the purposes set out in this policy or other purposes approved by you.  We will not otherwise disclose any of the information you provide to us without your consent, unless we are required to do so to comply with applicable laws and lawful government and/or regulatory requests.

Note that some of the data processors acting on behalf of the MOSAIC project (Microsoft, Mailchimp, Oracle) use servers located in countries outside EEA, which have not received a binding adequacy decision by the European Commission or by a competent national EEA data protection authority. Such transfers are subject to binding and appropriate transfer mechanisms that provide an adequate level of protection in compliance with GDPR. In addition, these companies operate under the EU-US and Swiss-US Protection Shields to ensure your rights regarding data protection when the data is transferred to the US. Please find their privacy policies in the following links:

https://www.privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement;

https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/;

https://www.oracle.com/legal/privacy/services-privacy-policy.html.

Security, storage and data retention

The information you provide to us will be held on our computers, in the servers of our cloud provider and/or in hard copy form.

We use physical and technological security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing and damage. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of any data disclosed online.

Your rights

We recognise and appreciate the importance of responsible use of information collected from you.

You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You have the right to ask us to rectify information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete and to erase or restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. You have the right to object to processing if we are able to process your information because it is in our legitimate interests. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (ICO). For the right to access there are some exemptions, which means that you may not always receive all the information we process.

If you have queries about the personal data provided or wish to withdraw your consent for us to process your personal data, please contact: MOSAIC@errin.eu

Changes to this policy

We may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. Please check this website periodically to inform yourself of any changes. This privacy notice was last updated on 24 November 2021.

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