Deadline: 23-Feb-22
The European Commission (EC) has announced a call for proposals for the AU-EU Water Energy Food Nexus to simulate and estimate the stresses on the water-energy nexus are crucial for their policy decision and energy planning.
The topic is contributing to the activities of the AU-EU High Level Policy Dialog (HLPD) Climate Change and Sustainable Energy (CCSE) partnership. Climate changes and increase usage of water in all economic activities create more stresses on water use for energy generation. Energy generation covers in this context energy from renewable sources and energy vectors such as electricity, heat and fuels.
The proposal should then develop and test models for decision makers and planners to implement energy infrastructures and energy supply in Africa which safeguard a systemic approach to the water-energy food nexus. These models can be based on existing reliable source codes and models. The test should be made on the case of an existing African water basin. Participation of societal stakeholders is considered important.
Actions should promote the highest standards of transparency in model adoption, going beyond documentation and extending to aspects such as assumptions, architecture, code and data. The outcome of the project should be widely disseminated and the source code of the model should be open access to stimulate future development. To ensure future uses, African experts in water-energy nexus and in model development should be full partners in the project. The project should identify further local training needs.
Funding Information
The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for:
- public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and
- cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).
Expected Outcomes
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Reinforce the activities in the long term the AU-EU HLPD CCSE Partnership.
- Provide knowledge and scientific modelling as evidence base of the water-energy-food-nexus including the environmental, social and economic trade-offs to contribute to R&I strategy and policy making.
- Increase clean energy generation in the African energy systems.
- A sustained network of African experts and expertise in this area.
- Improve in the long-term governance to advance knowledge and scientific modelling of the water energy food nexus including the environmental, social and economic trade-offs (governance aspects should be included since they are under-represented in the current research works).
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
- eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe;
- low- and middle-income countries.
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