Deadline: 14-Sep-21
Applications are now open for Maximizing the Impact and Synergy of European Climate Change Research and Innovation.
Scope
Actions should cover one of the following areas:
- Maximising the impact of EU-funded climate change research: The action should deliver effective mechanisms to strengthen the science-policy and science-civil society interface on the state-of-the-art climate change research in order to increase Europe’s capacity to accelerate the response to the climate crisis and, biodiversity and other environmental challenges. Climate change research is understood here as projects dealing with climate, mitigation and adaptation science that will result mainly from Destination 1 of Cluster 5 – “Climate sciences and responses”- of Horizon Europe as well as relevant legacy projects of Horizon 2020. Other relevant projects, in particular from Cluster 3 and 6, as well as other Destinations in Cluster 5 should also be considered where relevant and possible. Synergies with the topic HORIZON-CL5-2021-D1-01-06: Supporting and standardising climate services should be established as necessary.
- Maximising the synergy of climate change research and innovation in Europe: This action will help strengthen the European Research Area by ensuring coordination, cooperation and synergies between research, innovation and technology policies and programmes in the area of climate change research, including mitigation and adaptation, at European, national and regional level.
Funding Information
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 some of the following expected outcomes:
- Raising awareness of citizens, business, social partners, policy-makers and other relevant audiences towards climate change, based on more efficient, transparent and engaging communication of authoritative and timely science-based information originating from EU-funded climate change research projects.
- Better coordination of both on-going and future EU-funded climate change research initiatives and a more efficient use of resources.
- Enhanced impact of research investments and accelerated transfer of knowledge to inform policy and climate actions in Europe.
- Increased robustness, coherence and visibility of the results of EU-funded climate change research and innovation leading to increased uptake of the knowledge and solutions and more robust decisions by the public sector, businesses, industry and society.
- Curation of research and innovation project results related to climate change, such that stakeholders can discover and understand what EU-funded research is ongoing in their area of interest.
- Innovative and tailor-made tools and strategies to communicate the results of EU-climate change research leading to improved science – civil society interface, while considering drivers for active citizen engagement in climate action and more sustainable behaviours, including social innovations.
- Better coordination of climate change research, innovation and technology initiatives within the European Research Area, facilitating complementarity and coherence between EU-level, national and regional efforts and a more efficient use of resources.
- Identification of complementary research and innovation activities among the past, present and future work supported by national and regional R&I programmes on climate change, facilitating coherence between EU-level and national efforts and a more efficient use of resources, and taking into account international developments where relevant.
- Showcasing national and regional research and innovation activities and findings that could be of interest for cooperation between countries.
- Improving prioritisation of European climate change research by identifying priority topics (in terms of knowledge gaps and/or societal needs), and taking stock of national and EU-level climate change R&I research activities, in order to enhance the ability of existing and future European R&I to respond to societal needs.
- Accelerating the transfer of knowledge on climate change research to policy-makers, practitioners and the society.
- Implementation of collaborative activities to enhance the market, regulatory or societal uptake of R&I solutions related to climate change across Europe, for example by replicating national or local success stories in Europe.
- Identify good practices at European, national and regional level on communication, dissemination and exploitation of climate change research findings and projects results and facilitate their scaling up.
Eligibility Criteria
- Any legal entity, regardless of its place of establishment, including legal entities from non-associated third countries or international organisations (including international European research organisations) is eligible to participate (whether it is eligible for funding or not), provided that the conditions laid down in the Horizon Europe Regulation have been met, along with any other conditions laid down in the specific call topic.
- A ‘legal entity’ means any natural or legal person created and recognised as such under national law, EU law or international law, which has legal personality and which may, acting in its own name, exercise rights and be subject to obligations, or an entity without legal personality.
- 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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