Deadline: 11-Nov-22
The RERIPA Project is launching its third call for proposals dedicated to support multi-disciplinary regional consortia (Living Labs) that are able to address the Impact of Climate Change through innovative and sustainable user-centered solutions founded on research-based evidence with a focus on three priorities: coastal vulnerability, lagoon and ocean health, and sea level rise.
General objective: Inclusive R&I environment across the Pacific region to face climate change impacts (CCI). The original approach of RERIPA is to support the co-design and deployment of researchbased solutions around climate issues by academic actors, companies, NGOs, users’ representatives and public authorities, in order to respond to identified needs.
Specific Objectives
- R&I stakeholders collaborating across the Pacific region through a regional network to develop and apply innovative R&I strategies, in particular to introduce CCI solutions
- R&I stakeholders able to generate, apply and transform knowledge to innovate for sustainable development
- Increased uptake in the region of innovative, inclusive and sustainable solutions to face regional climate change impacts tested, developed or adapted by the Living Labs.
Focus Areas
The ACP Innovation Fund provides financial support for the implementation of projects advancing solutions in the following areas:
- Increasing access to digital literacy, knowledge, and use of emerging technologies; creating or strengthening effective links between R&I skills development and labour market demand;
- Establishing or enabling effective synergies in the research and innovation ecosystem, including with the private sector; facilitating conditions for technology transfer; promoting R&I uptake;
- Promoting local and indigenous knowledge and its use in combination with formal knowledge systems and practices.
Funding Information
- Max. 5 projects (multi-actor consortia) will be funded. The Lead Applicant should submit a proposal not exceeding 350,000 Euros.
- Project duration Expected start: 26 December 2022 – Expected end: 30 November 2024.
Geographical Scope: RERIPA will be implemented in two or more of the 15 Small Islands Developing States (SIDS) in the Pacific Region: Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Republic of the Marshall Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.
Expected Outcomes
- Expected results of RERIPA the expected impact is the implementation of better-structured and adaptable research and innovation modalities both in terms of general programming and concrete and targeted actions where each stakeholder (public decision-makers, economic actors, civil society organisations, NGOs, and individual actors) can find useful resources for their project:
- National R&I ecosystems on target themes are mapped and diagnosed in a participatory manner (innovation strategies, funding, needs, opportunities, actors, interactions, know-how, knowledge, existing innovations, jobs/skills, etc.), and a shared vision of future strategies and challenges is built.
- The capacities to mobilise civil and business society around their representatives and to contribute to strategies and actions are strengthened.
- The skills of actors (including political leaders) in the field of research valorization (contracting, intellectual property, maturation and technology transfer, etc.) and project engineering (setting up, responding to Calls for proposals, monitoring/evaluation, etc.) are reinforced.
- The capacities of actors in the fields of climate-related activities, tools and services are strengthened.
- Livings Labs mobilising different actors around innovative and sustainable usercentred solutions founded on research-based evidence, to cope with CCI and support SIDS (coastal) economy
Eligibility Criteria
- Legal entities
- Category 1: Academic and research institutions /organizations.
- Category 2: Innovation support organizations (i.e., tech hubs, innovation labs and technology transfer offices); incubators and start-ups; university spin-offs; Vocational and Education Training providers; national science, technology, and innovation agencies.
- Category 3: Organizations representing indigenous and local communities; agencies and associations working for gender equality in research and innovation; nongovernmental organizations.
- Category 4: Other similar organizations with specific experience in the priority fields of this call.
- Project consortium (Lead Applicant and its Partners):
- The Call for Proposals must be answered by consortia of several legal entities (public and private moral persons), and each consortium will have to be coordinated by a legal entity referred to as Lead Applicant, and the Lead Applicant will involve Partner Organisations (Coapplicants) in its consortium.
- A successful Applicant (as Lead Applicant or Co-applicant) will not receive over 400,000 Euros as a cumulative amount of the different grants obtained from the 4 RERIPA’s calls.
- All participating organisations in a bidding consortium must check their eligibility, and the Lead Applicant is responsible for checking and guaranteeing the eligibility of the partners; if one of the partners appears to be ineligible, this may lead to the exclusion of the whole consortium/project during the evaluation process.
- A consortium answering the Call for proposals must include at least 3 Applicants (including the Lead Applicant) established in the OACPS Pacific eligible countries and from at least 2 different countries, with at least 1 Academic & research institution/organisation (Category 1), one from Category 2 and one from Category 3, from the list of eligible applicants.
For more information, visit https://www.pidf.int/reripa-call-3-living-labs-for-innovative-solutions-to-address-climate-change-impacts/