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
It is necessary to tackle the global environmental risks, protect the world’s scarce resources, and decide on policy priorities. This inevitably raises important ethical questions and dilemmas including some related to the production of scientific knowledge and the development of novel technologies.
actively pursuing the preservation of the environment can, in some cases, lead to tensions between the pure environmental objective and the protection of human rights.
Detailed Call Description
Some research topics intrinsically also have a complex environmental and ecological ethics dimension including for example research and innovation in the area of electro-magnetic fields and the high frequency communication systems that are necessary to achieve a European gigabit society, or the digital innovation and biotechnology in food production practices that should not only remain safe for human health and the environment, but also allow a fair and sustainable system.
The action should conduct an analytical work covering the following aspects:
- What characterises the different dimensions and concepts associated with climate and environmental ethics in the context of research and development;
- Identify the ethics and integrity challenges related to the production and use of scientific knowledge in designing and implementing novel technologies and approaches to the global environmental challenge facing the European Union and the Planet;
- Develop strategies to uphold the integrity of scientific research in addressing climate change issues.
The action should clearly highlight what cannot be accepted or neglected in the name of addressing environmental issues. This notably includes the need to always conduct, prior to the start of a research, an independent ethical review, which remains a necessary safeguard for the individuals involved and enhances the trust from the impacted communities and the society as a whole, in the name of the ‘do no harm’ principle.
Issues related to refining environmental risk assessment in various fields of research and innovation should be addressed.
The action should result in:
- Producing an operational (“how-to”) guidelines to support the work of research teams’ ethics committee members and integrity experts, taking into account the concept of climate justice, including intergenerational justice as well as gender justice. The guidelines should include, among others, clear guidance for addressing ethical challenges related to the development of novel technologies and approaches to address climate change (e.g., in relation to technologies encouraging behavioural change, geo-engineering);
- Assessing the need to complement the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity with specific guidelines and if relevant propose short documents complementing the Code, focusing on the need to ensure an “inclusive and just transition that leaves no one behind”;
- Developing traditional and online training material (reflecting the guidelines) for students, early career and experienced researchers. The material must be made available on the e-platform Embassy of Good Science.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
EU Contribution: €3 million
Thematic Categories
- Enlargement
- Environment and Climate Change
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Social Affairs & Human Rights
Eligibility for Participation
- Economically Inactive Women
- Educational Institutions
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Training Centres
- Youth
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The work should be based on existing know how and have a bottom-up approach, involving all relevant stakeholders:
- Policy-makers
- Publishers
- Citizens
- Civil society organisations
- Students
- Early career
- Experienced researchers, researchers, research funders
Through the organisation of participatory events (workshops, consultations, ‘town hall” meetings).
Every effort should be made to achieve a 45% – or higher- female participation, especially among students, researchers, and ethics experts.
Cooperation with at least two participants from Japan, China, the Republic of Korea and/or African countries non-associated to Horizon Europe is required.
Consortia – with EU partners or partners from Associated Countries that have not previously collaborated are encouraged to participate.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia
P.O.Box 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Phone Number: +357 22205000
Email Address: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Ms Constantina Makri
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 054
Contact Email: cmakri@research.org.cy
Ms Katerina Karakasidou
Scientific Officer
Contact Phone: +357 22 205 036
Contact Email: kkarakasidou@research.org.cy
Mr. Marinos Photiades
Scientific Officer
Contact phone: +357 22205048
Contact email: mphotiades@research.org.cy
Dr Kalypso Sepou
Head of European Programmes Department
Contact Phone: +357 22 205066
Contact Email: kalypso@research.org.cy
(Publish Date: 14/12/2022-for internal use only)