Deadline: 27-Sep-22
The European Commission (EC) is offering grants that demonstrates solutions to build resilience to climate change in coastal areas in the Atlantic and Arctic sea basin, through the deployment of nature-based solutions, including nature-based infrastructures.
Proposals under this topic must deploy full-scale demonstrations of innovative solutions with concrete measurable impacts leading to a measurable increase of the resilience and adaptation capacity of the regions involved, whilst contributing to climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation.
This topic relates to the Adaptation to Climate Change Mission’s third objective, aiming to support at least 75 full scale deep demonstrations of climate resilience and to Mission Ocean, and waters’ objective 1 aiming at protection and restoration of marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity. It also contributes to the objectives of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) and the Water Framework Directive (WFD) – including in terms of Good Environmental Status and restoration of aquatic ecosystems – and the Marine Spatial Planning Directive (MSPD).
Details
Proposals should:
- Carry out demonstration activities in 5 different regions belonging to the Atlantic and/or Arctic sea basin, involving and including in the consortium entities from these three countries;
- Involve at least 10 ‘associated regions[1]’ as third parties to showcase the feasibility, replicability and scale up of the solutions developed. The consortium will proactively reach out to the “associated regions” to enable them to follow closely the project and its demonstration activities, proving knowledge transfer to them and with technical assistance to build capacity and to implement coastal resilience solutions in their territories;
- Identify further areas and locations where the solutions are replicable and draw up an action plan and roadmap to replicate and scale up the ecosystem and biodiversity restoration solutions and actions.
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 Outcome
Projects results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Upscaling of innovative solutions building climate resilience for coastal areas, making communities climate-proof and weather-resilient, in particular by adapting to extreme weather events and sea level rise;
- Collaboration and twinning between most advanced and front-runners regions on climate adaptation and other regions vulnerable to similar climate impacts;
- Acceleration of synergetic transformation to climate neutrality and climate resilience in coastal areas, supporting the development of the blue and low carbon economy;
- Technological, logistical, social and economic innovation for the restoration of marine, coastal and river ecosystems;
- Basin-scale cooperation, including through transition arrangements that create socially and economically sustainable propositions for local stakeholders, including, where appropriate, for indigenous people;
- Contributing to the implementation of the European Green Deal, the EU Adaptation Strategy , the EU Biodiversity Strategy, as well as the Galway Statement, the Belém Statement, the OSPAR Convention in connection with the implementation of EU marine environment, biodiversity and Arctic policies, the EU Arctic Joint Communication, the Atlantic Action Plan 2.0 with the aim to work for the benefit of all communities of stakeholders around the Atlantic and the Arctic and the Arctic Action Plan enhancing collaborative efforts to address the challenges in the Arctic;
- Contribution to the Mission’s Digital Ocean and Water Knowledge system through marine observations and open data and knowledge sharing;
- Contributing to better informed citizens and decision makers, for a better governance and coastal resilience planning
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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