Towards local community-driven business models: regenerative ocean farming

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Code: 22305 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Projects are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Evidence-based business plans for the development of entrepreneurship and successful local community-driven regenerative ocean farming initiatives;
• Job creation and new skills development;
• Provision of new ecosystem services from marine and coastal ecosystems;
• Preserved local marine and costal ecosystems, biodiversity and genetic diversity;
• Increased resilience of coastal and marine areas to climate change and generation of positive climate change mitigation effects;
• Improved marine and coastal habitats, biodiversity and enhanced conservation capacity;
• Increased knowledge on impact of regenerative ocean farming on local marine and coastal environment conditions.

Student and school activities for the promotion of education on ‘blue’ sustainability and the protection of marine and freshwater ecosystems

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Code: 22303 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-08 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Increased mobilisation and engagement of children and youth in primary and secondary schools across the EU and in the Associated countries in the implementation of Mission objectives;
• Student and school projects implementing the Mission objectives and engaging and mobilising students, teachers and schools in the pursuit of ocean and water literacy,
  sustainability and Mission objectives, that at the same time contribute to the growing Network of European Blue Schools established under the EU4Ocean Coalition for
  Ocean Literacy;
• Increased ocean and water literacy among children and youth, teachers and schools, improved understanding of the value and of ocean and waters and enhanced sense of responsibility among the youth and teachers towards this planet and its boundaries;
• Ramp up accreditation of schools in the Network of European Blue Schools and engagement in their related activities, based on methodologies of Open Schooling,
  engaging with the community and communicating the results of their projects and in the implementation of Mission objectives and bring the ocean and water into the classroom at the EU- and Associated countries level.

Lighthouse in the Baltic and the North Sea basins – bringing sustainable algae-based products and solutions to the market

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Code: 22301 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Increased market presence and further development of sustainable algae-based solutions and products for various uses and needs (e.g. human consumption, animal feed, pharmaceutical applications, waste-water treatment, innovative, circular and sustainable textiles applications or applications for agriculture);
• Enhanced knowledge base on algae-based solutions and products expected to reach European markets in the short to medium term;
• Enhanced public awareness and understanding of consumer acceptance issues of new algae based products:
• Identified and reduced market-entry barriers and barriers to uptake and scale up innovative and sustainable algae-based solutions and products
• Expansion and integration of innovative and circular industrial ecosystems and industrial clusters by bringing innovative and sustainable algae-based solutions and products to the market, integrating and linking up actors throughout the value chain to explore synergies.

Mediterranean sea basin lighthouse – Actions to prevent, minimise and remediate chemical pollution

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Code: 22299 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Innovative, reproducible solutions to reduce and remediate pollution from chemicals (such as mercury, persistent organic pollutants, plant protection products (pesticides, biocides), per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances – PFAFs, antifoulants as well as other chemical pollutants) 332 in the Mediterranean Sea basin in line with the target of
  reduction by at least 50% of the use and risk of chemical pesticides and to the objectives of the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan and the Convention for the protection of the
  Mediterranean sea against pollution and the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability;
• Accelerated uptake of innovative solutions to prevent and minimize chemical pollution;
• Effective monitoring of chemical pollution in line with existing methodologies under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive[333] and under the Water Framework Directive;
• Support Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Framework Directive implementation, which provide indicators and mechanism for assessments and measures
  to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) and Good Chemical Status;
• Contribution to the Mission’s Digital Ocean and Water Knowledge system through marine observations and open data and knowledge sharing;
• Empowered citizens taking action against pollution.

Transformation of regional economic systems for climate resilience and sustainability

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Code: 22297 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CLIMA-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Projects results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Relevant economic sectors affected by climate change are transformed and ready to face the future anticipated climate changes risks;
• An increased and improved range of c limate-resilient business models, value chains, and re-skilling opportunities (including training capabilities) are understood, socially
  acceptable and made available to all regions and communities;
• An increased capacity of local businesses, social partnerns and industries for sustainable coping with climate change;
• An increased capacity of national, regional and/or local governments, consumers organizations and other social partners, industries and businesses in empowering consumers to make informed choices and play active roles in transition to climate resilience;
• A better understanding of mechanisms that would drive transformation of the economic systems thanks to innovation, intended not only as technical innovation but also
  including social and user-driven innovation.

Boost the sponge function of landscape as a way to improve climate-resilience to water management challenges

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Code: 22295 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CLIMA-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Expected Outcome:

Projects are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Best available and improved or new solutions to improve sponge function of soil, ground water and surface water systems are used and/or made available to all regions and
  communities across EU for replication.
• Solutions for improving climate-resilience to extreme events have been developed, tested and brought closer to the market.
• Regions and communities have been actively engaged and involved in development and testing of a transformative solutions for climate resilience building.

Best practices on and piloting insurance solutions for climate adaptation in EU regions and communities

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Code: 22292 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CLIMA-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

Expected Outcome: Projects are expected to contribute to all of the following outcomes:

• A set of weather and climate risk insurance products to be used or replicated across EU regions and communities.
• Mechanisms to record, collect and share climate-related risk and losses data integrated within the Risk Data Hub 102, the Copernicus services, and other initiatives.
• Guidance on insurance pricing that reflect risks reduction measures, and to ensure affordable insurance cover.
• Trial innovative risk transfer solutions to deal with climate-induced risk, including parametric insurance and insurance of nature-based solutions.
• Advance public sector modernization when it comes to the demand for insurance solutions for climate adaptation.
• Open up opportunities in the insurance market for cutting edge risk transfer solutions.
• Reinforced policy frameworks to facilitate the allocation of substantial additional national and regional budgets to increase the penetration in the EU of insurance solutions to deal with climate-induced risks.

Establishing of national cancer mission hubs and creation of network to support the Mission on Cancer

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Code: 22287 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CANCER-01-05 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/05/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

The integration of the Mission on Cancer with activities at national, regional and where relevant at local level will be of utmost important to ensure its success.
Taking into account the differences of national health and research and innovation systems, the coordination and support of cancer mission-related activities at national, regional and where relevant at local level are essential in this regard. At the same time, synergies with actions under Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan need to be generated.

Towards the creation of a European Cancer Patient Digital Centre

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Code: 22284 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CANCER-01-04 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/05/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

The overall goal of the Mission on Cancer and the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan includes a better quality of life for patients and their families living with, and after, cancer.
Project results will support the creation of a virtual European Cancer Patient Digital Centre (ECPDC), which is a federated network of patient controlled (national) health data infrastructures enabling the voluntary exchange of patients and survivors’ health data in a standardised approach, for primary and secondary use.

Pragmatic clinical trials to optimise treatments for patients with refractory cancers

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Code: 22281 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CANCER-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/05/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

While cancer research and innovation have generated novel treatment options, cancer patients across Europe need access to more effective and patient-centred interventions which keep up with increasing demands in a complex and fragmented oncology healthcare landscape with spiralling healthcare costs.

Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic with its detrimental impact on cancer control has demonstrated the need for different clinical trial designs with fewer inclusion and exclusion criteria that would allow evaluation of real-world effectiveness driving better and more affordable treatment solutions that are widely accessible across EU regions, Member States and Associated Countries.

Pragmatic clinical trials focus on choosing between care options. Pragmatic trials evaluate effectiveness, the effect of treatment in routine (real-world) clinical practice. Some examples include treatment versus active surveillance in patient management, combination of treatment interventions, determination of optimal dose and dose schedule, de-escalation of treatment intervention, comparative effectiveness of different treatment interventions.

Proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that direct, tailor towards and contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Cancer patients and their caregivers will have access to optimised and affordable treatment interventions that increase their quality of life, across EU regions, Member States and Associated Countries;
• Healthcare professionals and academia will generate clinical evidence, by evaluating effectiveness in randomised or cluster-randomised academic investigator-initiated pragmatic clinical trials, how to best perform and deploy evidence-based treatment interventions that improve outcomes in real life for routine healthcare, including quality of life, for cancer patients who often present with co-morbidities;
• National healthcare providers, policymakers and authorities in EU Regions, Member States and Associated Countries will have the evidence to implement optimised and affordable treatments in their healthcare systems, including in everyday medical practice.

Strengthening research capacities of Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures

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Code: 22279 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CANCER-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/05/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

The Mission Board of the EU Mission on Cancer has defined Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures as ‘national or regional infrastructures that provide resources and services to support, improve and integrate cancer care, research, training of care professionals and education for cancer patients, survivors and families/carers.’

Today, the level of development of Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures and their capacities, such as their digital, research and innovation-related capacities, vary considerably across Member States and Associated Countries, leading to inequalities, in particular in terms of research, quality and access to care.

The Horizon Europe Mission on Cancer will complement the set-up across Member States and several Associated Countries of an EU network of Comprehensive Cancer Centres that will be established through the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan by 2025. The Mission aims to achieve the target of ensuring that 90% of eligible cancer patients have access to Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures by 2030. In that context, this topic should set up, across Member States and several Associated Countries, a capacity-building programme for countries of the EU network of Comprehensive Cancer Centres to be established through the Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan^[1], to support them in improving or developing their existing or future Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures, focussing on developing their digital, research & innovation-related capacities and their integration with cancer care.

Proposals under this topic should aim at delivering results that are directed at and contributing to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Research and health policy makers will benefit from support to further develop or set up Comprehensive Cancer Infrastructures, leading to improvement in terms of research and access to care;
• Research and healthcare professionals will benefit from a better integration between research and care;
• Researchers will benefit from innovative infrastructures to perform research and participate in studies;
• Citizens, including patients and their caregivers will have enhanced access to screening, diagnostics and treatments, improved care pathways and more integrated care. Their involvement and participation to clinical trials will be facilitated.

Improving and upscaling primary prevention of cancer through implementation research

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Code: 22260 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-CANCER-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 24/05/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

For an increasing number of cancer indications potential mechanisms and means to prevent the onset of cancer have been identified. However, with cancer incidence steadily increasing across all age groups, parts of society, European Member States, Associated Countries and elsewhere, decisive action on primary prevention should be stepped up and made a collective responsibility. Implementing and upscaling of primary cancer-centred prevention programmes would contribute to achieving this goal.

Creating a transnational network of National Contact Points (NCPs) for EU Missions

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Code: 22253 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-MISS-2022-NCP-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Missions | Start submission calls: 12/05/2022 | End submission calls: 27/09/2022

This topic aims at supporting activities that are enabling or contributing to all the expected impacts of all destinations of the Missions Work Programme.

To that end, proposals under this topic should aim for delivering results that are directed towards and contributing to all of the following expected outcomes:

• An improved and professionalised NCP service across Europe, thereby helping simplify access to EU Missions calls, lowering the entry barriers for newcomers, and raising the average quality of proposals submitted.
• A more consistent level of NCP support services across Europe.
• Mobilising expertise from across all of the clusters, as well as from the other pillars of Horizon (a whole of programme approach) and into other policy areas thus reflecting the ‘beyond R&I’ nature of the missions, as well as outreach activities to the most relevant national and regional networks that support dissemination of other major EU funding programmes and support EU-wide engagement of major relevant EU policy actions.
• Triggering societal transformations by encouraging applicants to enhance citizen engagement and actions widely relevant to society.

ERC PROOF OF CONCEPT GRANTS

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Code: 22251 | Identifier Code: ERC-2022-POC2 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 16/11/2021 | End submission calls: 29/09/2022

The ERC Proof of Concept Grants aim to maximise the value of the excellent research that the ERC funds, by funding further work (i.e. activities which were not scheduled to be funded by the original ERC frontier research grant) to verify the innovation potential of ideas arising from ERC funded projects. Proof of Concept Grants are therefore on offer only to Principal Investigators whose proposals draw substantially on their ERC funded research.

Mountain, Remote and Disadvantaged Housing Rehabilitation Housing Plan – 3rd Call

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Code: 22218 | Programme name: 2949 | Start submission calls: 04/04/2022 | End submission calls: 31/12/2022

The Ministry of Interior informs the public that the start date of the Housing Plan for the Rehabilitation of Mountainous, Remote and Disadvantaged Areas is set for April 4, 2022. The purpose of the Plan is to provide financial support for the acquisition of privately owned housing for permanent ownership in areas where the Plan is valid. The Plan covers a total of 277 communities / areas defined as remote, mountainous and disadvantaged based on specific criteria.

Funding Scheme for the Enhancement of Business Activity in the walled city of Nicosia – 1st Call

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Code: 22211 | Programme name: 2949 | Start submission calls: 01/06/2022 | End submission calls: 30/10/2022

The Ministry of Interior announces of the 1st Call for Proposals for the Funding Scheme for Enhancement of Business Activity in the walled city of Nicosia.

The Scheme is part of the Action Plan for the Regeneration and Revitalization of Nicosia Within the Walls.

The Plan concerns the provision of financial support to Natural or Legal persons, owners or tenants of buildings (with the signed consent of the owners), carrying out or planning to carry out economic activity, for the purpose of strengthening business activity, in the area within the walls of Nicosia.

LIFE Preparatory Projects – Projects addressing ad hoc Legislative and Policy Priorities (PLP)

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Code: 22160 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2022-PLP | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 17/05/2022 | End submission calls: 07/09/2022

The topics under this call for proposals concern LIFE Other Action Grants (OAGs). Other Action Grants (OAGs) include:

• Coordination and Support Actions (CSA) for projects focusing on the transition to renewable energy and increased energy efficiency by breaking market barriers, through activities including capacity building, dissemination of information and knowledge, and awareness raising; they may include directly awarded grants to bodies designated by Member States.
• A Small Grant Facility on Biodiversity (BEST). Small grants (max 100 000 EUR) for projects in the EU Outermost Regions and the Overseas Countries and Territories on biodiversity conservation, ecosystem restoration and sustainable use of ecosystem services, including ecosystem-based approaches to climate change adaptation and mitigation
• Pilot projects in the framework of the ‘New European Bauhaus’ to identify and address some key challenges helping Europe’s transformation into the first climate-neutral continent in view of having better spaces in which form not only follows function, such as in the historical Bauhaus movement, but also contributes to preserve the resources of the planet.
• Action grants benefitting the organisations mentioned in Annex I of the LIFE Regulation
• Additional projects responding to the EU legislative and policy priorities determined following a consultation with Member States (PLP)
• Other specific projects to identified beneficiaries (Article 195 EU Financial Regulation).

Strategic Nature and Integrated Projects (SNaP/SIP)

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Code: 22123 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2022-STRAT-two-stage | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 17/05/2022 | End submission calls: 08/09/2022

The topics under this call for proposals concern LIFE Strategic Integrated Projects (SIPs) and Strategic Nature Projects (SNaPs).

LIFE Technical Assistance for Preparation of SIPs/SNAPs

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Code: 22121 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2022-TA-PP | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 17/05/2022 | End submission calls: 08/09/2022

The topics under this call for proposals concern LIFE Technical Assistance Project Grants (TA PP). Technical Assistance Projects (TA) may include the following activities:

• preparation of Strategic Integrated Projects (SIPs) Strategic Nature and Projects (SNAPs) (TA-PP)

Nature & Biodiversity – Standard Action Projects (SAP)

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Code: 22116 | Identifier Code: LIFE-2022-SAP-NAT | Programme name: 10710 | Start submission calls: 17/05/2022 | End submission calls: 04/10/2022

The specific objectives of the sub-programme ‘Nature and Biodiversity’ are the following:

• to develop, demonstrate, promote and stimulate scale up of innovative techniques, methods and approaches (including nature-based solutions and ecosystem approach) for reaching the objectives of the EU legislation and policy on nature and biodiversity, and to contribute to the knowledge base and to the application of best practices, including through the support of the Natura 2000
• to support the development, implementation, monitoring and enforcement of EU legislation and policy on nature and biodiversity, including by improving governance at all levels, in particular through enhancing capacities of public and private actors and the involvement of civil society, also taking into due consideration the possible contributions provided by citizen science
• to catalyse the large-scale deployment of successful solutions/approaches for implementing EU legislation and policy on nature and biodiversity, by replicating results, integrating related objectives into other policies and into public and private sector practices, mobilising investment and improving access to finance.