Horizon Europe is the European Union (EU) funding programme for the period 2021 – 2027, which targets the sectors of research and innovation. The programme’s budget is around € 95.5 billion, of which € 5.4 billion is from NextGenerationEU to stimulate recovery and strengthen the EU’s resilience in the future, and € 4.5 billion is additional aid.
A successful proposal must develop knowledge and tools to understand the role of transformative change for biodiversity policy making, accelerate and upscale biodiversity-relevant transformative changes in our society.
With focus on assessing the nexus of extraction, production (including processing), consumption, trade and behaviour patterns, including transformative changes for climate change on biodiversity for the EU and Associated Countries, international cooperation in particular with African countries, Brazil, Latin American and Caribbean countries or the Mediterranean region is strongly encouraged.
Proposals should address all the following points:
Unsustainable production and consumption, including the role of trade for linking both, are pushing many of the direct drivers of biodiversity loss: land use change, overexploitation, climate change and pollution. Proposals should, based on a clear understanding of these relationships address how leverage points and levers can be identified and used for generating benefits for biodiversity, e.g. through revision of regulation, standards, funding practices or governance processes. They should highlight how the primary production sectors (in particular in agriculture, forestry, fisheries, raw material extraction, and also the construction sector) and the related infrastructure and energy provision and use impacts biodiversity directly. On patterns of consumption, proposals should show how their impacts such as uneven use and exploitation of resources, generation of waste and pollution, value setting, power setting in societies, institutions and financial streams could be addressed in business, institutional and consumer agendas to achieve positive outcomes for biodiversity.
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EU contribution per project: €3,00 million
Legal entities established in all member states of the African Union are exceptionally eligible for Union funding.
Research and Innovation Foundation
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Email: support@research.org.cy
George Christou
Contact Phone: 22 205 030
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Charalambos Papatryfonos
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E-mail: cpapatryfonos@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/
(Publish Date: 22/11/2021-for internal use only)
European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
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