Understanding and managing medium and longer-term challenges and opportunities for agriculture stemming from shifting climatic zones and changing agroecological environments
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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.
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Call
Summary
Average global temperatures have risen by about 1.5 °C globally since pre-industrial times; temperatures in Europe – the continent with the fastest warming – are rising at about twice that rate.
As temperatures increase, previously stable climate zones (i.e. long-term patterns of temperature, precipitation and seasonal variations) are shifting to higher latitudes (towards the poles) and higher altitudes (where possible).
These changes affect both natural and managed ecosystems and the services they provide, altering the distribution and abundance of many plant species and their life cycles, with consequences for crops and other forms of agricultural land use, including livestock.
Detailed Call Description
Proposals should address the following:
- by using current and novel evidence, observations and approaches, develop, test and validate dynamic models of the impacts of climate change – also in relation to possible tipping points – on agriculture, taking into account diverse agroecological systems and pedoclimatic conditions and covering the most important expected impacts (including changes in growing season and crop phenology, water demand and availability/quality, soil health and fertility, crop, grassland and livestock productivity, pests/diseases and parasites, etc.).
- characterise the geo-distribution of cropping systems – also including permanent crops as well as permanent grasslands and other land uses for livestock farming systems, and including currently grown crops as well as others that could be grown under future conditions – in Europe, propose indicators for sustainability, productivity and resilience, and assess production uncertainties, incorporating climate change projections.
- provide tools for decision-making and business strategies at different levels of action, for evidence-based agricultural land use and management strategies based on climate change trends and quantitative projections, enabling farmers and other practitioners to develop and apply tailored, innovative pathways towards adaptation and, where relevant, restoration in agricultural systems.
Proposals should include a dedicated task and resources for cooperation with the other project(s) funded under this topic and for collaborative actions with other related projects under Horizon Europe, including the Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change, and under the Agroecology Partnership.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
100%
Expected EU contribution per project: €5.00 million.
Thematic Categories
- Agriculture - Farming - Forestry
- Environment and Climate Change
- Natural and Cultural Heritage
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
- Rural development
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- Educational Institutions
- Farmers Unions
- Farmers, Agriculturalists
- Legal Entities
- Natual person / Citizen / Individual
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Private Bodies
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Semi-governmental organisations
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) may participate as member of the consortium selected for funding.
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 (other data and services may additionally be used).
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects.
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National Contact Point(s)
Research and Innovation Foundation
29a Andrea Michalakopoulou, 1075 Nicosia,
P.B. 23422, 1683 Nicosia
Telephone: +357 22205000
Fax: +357 22205001
Email: support@research.org.cy
Website: https://www.research.org.cy/en/
Contact Persons:
Marcia Trillidou
Scientific Officer A’
Email: trillidou@research.org.cy
Dr. Mary Economou
Scientific Officer
Email: meconomou@research.org.cy