European participation in global biodiversity genomics endeavours aimed at identifying all biodiversity on Earth
Programme Category
Programme Name
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
Call
Summary
The International Barcode of Life (iBOL) consortium has set up high-throughput barcoding infrastructure to barcode all biodiversity on Earth by 2045 with the help of the international community and several new infrastructures across the world. Similarly, the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), aims to sequence and catalogue the genomes of all of Earth’s currently described eukaryotic species over a period of 10 years.
Successful proposals will help to create and maintain European nodes and networks integrated into global biodiversity genomics initiatives and help to better understand biodiversity decline, its main direct drivers and their interrelations.
Detailed Call Description
Proposals should set up one or both European hubs for iBoL and/or EBP, and leverage resources and expertise to advance in completing the barcoding and/or sequencing of European biodiversity in a smart and efficient way, taking advantage of existing networks, infrastructures and expertise. Specific groups of ecological or economic importance, or species under threat, should be sufficiently prioritised.
Projects should sufficiently plan their barcoding effort to maximise possible applications. Also, they should contribute to the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 by generating the reference genomes of the representative species across the tree of life, leveraging the existing genome sequencing facilities.
Data, results and methodologies from projects funded under this topic should contribute to the EC Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity.
International cooperation with strategic third country partners is strongly encouraged.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
EU contribution per project: between € 10,00 and € 20,00 million
Thematic Categories
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- NGOs
- Non Profit Organisations
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
- International organisations with headquarters in a Member State or associated country are exceptionally eligible for funding given the global dimension of this topic.
- If projects use satellite-based Earth observation, positioning, navigation and/or related timing data and services, beneficiaries must make use of Copernicus and/or Galileo/EGNOS.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
Strovolos Avenue 123, 2042 Nicosia, Cyprus, P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/
Dr Angelos Ntantos
Scientific Officer
Telephone: 35722205033
Email: antantos@research.org.cy
Dr Ioannis Theodorou
Scientific Officer
Telephone: 35722205038
Email: itheodorou@research.org.cy
(Publish Date: 17/08/2021-for internal use only)