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Programme Category
EU Competitive Programmes
Programme Name
Horizon Europe (2021-2027)
Programme Description
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.
Identifier Code
HORIZON-CL6-2023-BIODIV-01-11
Call
Biodiversity loss and enhancing ecosystem services in urban and peri-urban areas
Summary
There is a lack of knowledge and know-how on:
- how to assess ecosystem condition and services in urban and peri-urban areas, and their contribution to the challenges of the cities,
- how to best plan and prioritise the protection, renaturing, and reconnecting of the NBS and green and blue infrastructure so as to optimise the ecosystem services and address the policy priorities of the city while ‘leaving no one behind’ as stressed by the European Green deal (e.g., promote urban and regional resilience, while addressing spatial justice to avoid increased inequality),
- how to combine, connect and manage different re-naturing actions and interventions and the scales of these actions- from an individual intervention to an urban and functional urban area in order to minimise the trade-offs and disservices and optimise the benefits in a cost effective and efficient manner.
Detailed Call Description
The successful proposal should:
- Building on the work of Horizon 2020 projects and their task forces, take stock of the state the existing urban and peri-urban ecosystems and their services and identify direct (urban development pressure etc.) and indirect drivers of loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services at local level (policy, spatial regulations, financial incentives, land management practices, etc.);
- Develop a replicable methodology for cities and urban areas across Europe to co-design pathways, a shared long-term vision, an integrated strategy with policies and an action plan (e.g., with responsibilities, timeline and financing) towards the urban ecosystem restoration targets as formulated in the Commission proposal for a nature restoration law;
- Include in the methodology the necessary mapping and assessment methods, economic and co-creation governance models to co-develop and prioritise i. combination of cost effective and efficient solutions that will enable to co-implement the strategy and to co-monitor the delivery; ii. innovative solutions and governance models to integrate systematically the strategies in the public, private and people decision making processes, such as public procurement, transport and climate policies, spatial regulations, land management decision, market incentives, etc; iii. innovative financing and business models;
- Co-develop and test the methodology in a representative sample of cities across EU with local stakeholders from the whole society that will enable the uptake of the models and tools developed across EU and EU regions, thus supporting EU territorial cohesion;
- Citizen science approach could be used for this purpose;
- Identify the skills and building capacity needs at the local and regional levels, the potential for job creation as well as existing capacity building programmes, with an eye at the inclusion of marginalised communities and at the gender dimension;
- Propose how urban greening plans and spatial planning, including regulations and building code, can act as enablers of the development of NBS market;
- Disseminate outcomes and capacity building activities across EU, connecting with the relevant platforms such as recommended in the EU guidance for urban greening plans, as well as with the “Cities with nature platform”.
Call Total Budget
€5,00 million
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
EU Contribution per project: €5,00 million
Thematic Categories
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Urban Development
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Disabled Persons
- Farmers Unions
- Farmers, Agriculturalists
- Investment Funds
- Large Enterprises
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Producer Associations
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
- Trade Unions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Engage in the testing cities different departments of:
- local authorities,
- local research
- technical organisations.
Βig urban/ land managers or users:
- farmers,
- citizen, including vulnerable groups,
- SMEs such as nature-based enterprises, etc.
Call Opening Date
22/12/2022
Call Closing Date
28/03/2023
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou Street, 1075 Nicosia
T.Th. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
+357 22205000
Email: support@research.org.cy
Contact Persons:
Marcia Trillidou
Scientific Officer A’
Email: trillidou@research.org.cy
Dr. Mary Economou
Scientific Officer
Email: meconomou@research.org.cy
(Publish Date: 13/02/2023-for internal use only)
EU Contact Point
European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation
https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/research-and-innovation_en#contact