Deadline: 27-Sep-22
The European Commission (EC) is offering grants to address all the following aspects:
- To collect the best available knowledge, including local knowledge, and where appropriate ‘traditional knowledge’, and define the best approaches on possible ways, positive impacts and challenges, strengths and weaknesses, in improving the sponge functioning of landscape as a way to improve its ability to contribute to water management, in particular in facing extreme events. The review of existing knowledge should also include experiences matured in different parts of Europe and from Horizon 2020 projects.
- To undertake research and test innovative solutions using the activities ongoing in the regions and communities as case studies, to better understand their success factors and to explore and experiment new innovative ways of improving water retention capacity through nature-based solutions, in comparison to alternative solutions, such as those including gray infrastructure. Opportunities offered by passive management of land as low cost approach should be also considered and included.
- To ensure synergies between the Adaptation Mission and other relevant programmes and initiatives, in supporting building climate resilience to cope with extreme weather events at local, regional, national, and European level and to share relevant knowledge and experience developed in the Mission more broadly.
This topic contributes to the second objective of the Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change (as well as the Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030’ as well as the Mission ‘A soil deal for Europe’) and corresponds to one of the thematic research areas described in the Climate Adaptation Mission Implementation Plan. It is to support knowledge dissemination amongst regions and communities and to test solutions that help the management of areas (both land-use, soil, ground water and surface water), in particular in facing present and future extreme weather events, through developing integrated approach to increase the sponge functioning of areas by the restoration of natural retention functions of the soil, ground water and small tributaries of surface water systems in river basins, with special attention to the potential of natural and semi-natural habitats restoration and enlargement.
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
Projects are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Best available and improved or new solutions to improve sponge function of soil, ground water and surface water systems are used and/or made available to all regions and communities across EU for replication.
- Solutions for improving climate-resilience to extreme events have been developed, tested and brought closer to the market.
- Regions and communities have been actively engaged and involved in development and testing of a transformative solutions for climate resilience building.
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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