Deadline: 20-Jun-22
Applicants are now invited for the European Joint Programme (EJP) SOIL International Call to foster farm management practices, which contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation.
The EJP SOIL started in February 2020, to create an integrated framework for agricultural soil research in Europe to enhance capacity, capability and knowledge in the area of soil research. It aims to overcome current fragmentation in research and to unleash the potential of agricultural soils to contribute to climate change adaptation and mitigation of GHG emission released by agriculture to contribute to carbon neutral production. In parallel, research will be conducted to preserve or even enhance soils performance in relation to these and other agricultural and environmental functions.
Aims
To achieve this aim, proposals submitted to this Call must address one of the following three topics:
- Topic A: Soil restoration practices and managements for alleviating land degradation and supporting the agro-ecosystem functioning.
- The research proposals should focus on restoring degraded soils in agricultural and forest lands as well as assessing the potential of available solutions, such as nature-based solutions, technological options and their combinations.
- Topic B: Options to manage C, N and P cycling in the context of changing environmental conditions using data derived from benchmark farms.
- The research proposals should aim at identifying a set of relevant and representative benchmark farms that engage and execute a pre-defined and agreed long-term strategy using practices and measures in full farm management targeting inter alia enhanced soil carbon sequestration and reduced CO2 and non-CO2 emissions of greenhouse gases.
- Topic C: Developing innovative methods and sensing technologies to provide an integrated monitoring and mapping of farm management practices taking also into account physical attributes and vegetation characteristics relevant to SOC sequestration, soil health and degradation.
- Research proposals should focus on developing, testing and validating new remote and / or proximal sensing approaches to provide mapping and monitoring of farm management practices as well as physical attributes relevant to SOC sequestration, soil health and degradation.
Eligibility Criteria
- Universities and other higher education institutions, public research institutions, private non-profit organisations, and private companies as well as employees of these organisations can apply for funding, subject to individual Funders’ regulations and respective individual eligibility criteria.
- Research consortia should consist of a minimum of three eligible partners from three different countries seeking funding from at least three different Funders who contribute funds to the Call. The Funder from which they sought funding, according to their legal terms and conditions for project funding will provide funding of the participating research partners.
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This Funders from the following countries will provide funds for this Call: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Kenya, Lithuania, Norway, New Zealand, Poland, Spain, Switzerland and Uruguay. Furthermore, the Funder GRA4 will provide funds to organisations from the following countries: Argentina, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, Brazil, Cameroon, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cote d’Ivoire, Cuba, Democratic Republic of Congo, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Malawi, Mexico, Mongolia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Samoa, Senegal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, Uruguay, Viet Nam, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
For more information, visit https://ejp-soil.ptj.de/call2