Deadline: 14-Sep-21
Applications are now open for Supporting and Standardising Climate Services.
Scope
The scope of activities under this topic should cover the following aspects:
- Uncertainty analysis and quality control with supportive case studies at various levels (national to European and global), and delivery domains (public and private).
- Preparation of metadata guidelines to document in a comparative and transparent manner climate service data sources and processing methodologies, as well as decision-making based on these services, and support FAIR data management practices.
- Development of good practices, guidance, and standardization of climate information and verification methods for long-term forecast products.
- Definition of verification and certification methods to enhance quality and usability of climate services, including methods for the evaluation of their effectiveness.
- Coordination and promotion of European climate service activities, encouraging open exchange of knowledge, expertise and data and providing a science-user communication platform and improving synergies between regional, national, European and international activities.
- Development of appropriate business models and knowledge brokerage activities to support scale-up and replication of climate services.
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 (low-value grant).
Expected Outcomes
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Support to the implementation of the EU Adaptation Strategy and the Mission on adaptation to climate change, including societal transformation e.g. by providing standardised tools for climate proofing and increasing resilience.
- Improved relevance of data, information and knowledge on climate change impacts and adaptation, as well as mitigation for users both in the private and public sectors.
- Enhanced value of climate services through standards and quality assurance procedures and communication.
- The generation of trust across supply and demand of knowledge and services, supporting the development of a market for climate services and the European climate service sector.
- Enhanced quality, impact, equity and performance of European climate services.
- Enhanced data and analytical tools for climate impacts, risks (including extremes, longer trends, and the combination of trends and extremes) and transition risks, as well as actionable knowledge for the formulation of recommendations, identification and appraisal of adaptation options addressing the needs of all stakeholders.
- Enhanced coordination and visibility of climate services activities.
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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