Building taxonomic research capacity near biodiversity hotspots and for protected areas by networking natural history museums and other taxonomic facilities

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Code: 15226 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Professional taxonomists are highly specialised and skilled experts, traditionally working in academia or curating collections in natural history museums, herbaria, botanical garden or biobanks. EU Member States and associated countries, often lack permanent taxonomic capacity in the field, in particular near biodiversity hotspots and protected areas. They could greatly benefit from professional expertise, networking and infrastructures from natural history museums and other taxonomic facilities, such as botanical gardens or biobanks, and centres integrating new genome- and image-based technologies to advance taxonomy, contributing at the same time with adequate in situ conservation monitoring, data and samples.

Scheme Providing Incentives to hire people with chronic diseases 2021

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Code: 15222 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 08/11/2021 | End submission calls: 31/12/2024

The project aims to encourage employers to recruit people with chronic illnesses and is part of the active employment policies promoted by the government to combat poverty and social exclusion, in particular with regard to the active inclusion of vulnerable groups in the labor market.

The Scheme covers only unemployed people with Chronic Diseases interested in full or part time employment. Moreover, the person covered (participant) must have been registered as unemployed at the District or Local Employment Office (Public Employment Service – PES) before their employment date.

The method of simplified cost forms will be used to calculate the amount of the sponsorship. The cost unit for the specific Grant Plan is set at €52/ working day and corresponds to the amount of sponsorship that each beneficiary will receive for each working day to be completed by the beneficiary, regardless of the actual salary costs borne by the employer / beneficiary.

The grant will be provided for twenty-four (24) months of employment. Based on the cost unit, the maximum possible subsidy for the 24 months amounts to € 22.360.

Eligible expenditure is the salary cost paid by the employer for the employment period, the amount of which will be specified in the Public Funding Agreement. The employment date and submission of the relevant application must be made within the period of the call from 8/11/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

Who cannot participate in the Scheme:

1. People (candidates for employment) whose employment was previously funded by Co-funded Projects during the Programming Period 2021-2027.
2. (a) Persons who are Shareholders and / or directors of a Company (excluding Public Companies) members of the Board of Directors, Associations / Foundation/ Institutions (b) Persons who are spouses or are affiliated with a first or second degree ( either by blood or by marriage ) with the employer. That is, they cannot participate in the employer – employee relationship people associated as spouses, children, parents, siblings, grandchildren. For the above exemptions, the employer is specified in (a).
3. Self-employed to subsidize themselves.

The person hired through the Plan must fill a vacancy notified by the Employer to the Public Employment Service (PES) before submitting the application for participation in the Plan. It is clarified that the date of recruitment and the submission of the application cannot be the same.

The date of recruitment of the individual must be within the validity period of the invitation of the Plan and must precede the date of submission of the application for participation. The application form must be submitted within one month from the date of recruitment.

Applications can be send only with email (in pdf) from 8/11/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

Scheme Providing Incentives to employ people with disabilities

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Code: 15215 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 08/11/2021 | End submission calls: 31/12/2024

The Scheme aims at encouraging employers to hire people with disabilities and to moderate  their reluctance to hire people with disabilities either due to the impression that this will not be effective or because the salary is considered too high . It is expected that to join one hundred (100) people from the target Group will benefit from the scheme.

The Scheme covers ONLY unemployed people with disabilities interested in full or part time employment target. Moreover, the person covered (candidate for employment / recruitment) must have been registered as unemployed in the District or Local Employment Office (Public Employment Service – PES) before the employment date.

They should submit confirmation from the Cyprus Confederation of Organizations of the Disabled (CCOD).

The method of simplified cost forms will be used to calculate the amount of the sponsorship. The cost unit for the specific Grant Plan is set at € 48 / working day and corresponds to the amount of sponsorship that each beneficiary will receive for each working day to be completed by the beneficiary, regardless of the actual salary costs borne by the employer / beneficiary.

The grant will be provided for twenty-four (24) months of employment.

Eligible expenditure is the salary cost paid by the employer for the employment period, the amount of which will be specified in the Public Funding Agreement. The employment date and submission of the relevant application must be made within the period of the call from 8 November 2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

 Who cannot participate in the Scheme:

1. People (candidates for employment) whose employment was previously funded by Co-funded Projects during the Programming Period 2021-2027.
2. (a) Persons who are Shareholders and / or directors of a Company (excluding Public Companies) members of the Board of Directors, Associations / Foundation/ Institutions (b) Persons who are spouses or are affiliated with a first or second degree ( either by blood or by marriage ) with the employer. That is, they cannot participate in the employer – employee relationship people associated as spouses, children, parents, siblings, grandchildren. For the above exemptions, the employer is specified in (a).
3. Self-employed to subsidize themselves.

The person hired through the Plan must fill a vacancy notified by the Employer to the Public Employment Service (PES) before submitting the application for participation in the Plan. It is clarified that the date of recruitment and the submission of the application cannot be the same.

The date of recruitment of the individual must be within the validity period of the invitation of the Plan and must precede the date of submission of the application for participation. The application form must be submitted within one month from the date of recruitment.

Applications can be send only with email (in pdf) from 08 November 2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

Monitoring and effective measures for agrobiodiversity

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Code: 15219 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-01-06 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

The biodiversity strategy aims to bring back at least 10% of agricultural area under high-diversity landscape features. These include, amongst others buffer strips, rotational or non-rotational fallow land, hedges, non-productive trees, terrace walls, and ponds. The EU Birds and Habitats Directive aims at reaching favourable conservation status of wild birds as well as of those species and habitats covered in the annexes of the Habitats Directive. It is necessary to monitor the diversity and area of habitats for farmland-dependent species, in space and time, in order to maintain and re-establish biotopes and habitats.

Developing nature-based therapy for health and well-being

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Code: 15211 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-COMMUNITIES-02-02-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Nature affects human health in different ways. In particular, urban environments can have a negative impact on physical and mental health. This is due to urban stressors such as increased noise levels, higher crime rates and higher levels of pollution. It is important, to determine the degree to which nature experience might lessen and address this burden. Even more so in view of the fact that the opportunities and time spent in nature are decreasing.
R&I will support the development of nature-based therapy to help communities turn the ecological transition into opportunities for good health and well-being, increased resilience, and positive long-term prospects such as the creation of green jobs.

Smart solutions for smart rural communities: empowering rural communities and smart villages to innovate for societal change

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Code: 15207 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-COMMUNITIES-02-01-two-stage | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

The successful proposal will contribute to fostering a sustainable, balanced and inclusive development of rural areas. It will supporting digital, social and community-led innovations and by equipping rural communities with innovative and smarter solutions that increase access to services, opportunities and adequate innovation ecosystems, including for women, youth and the most vulnerable groups, improve attractiveness and reduce the feeling of being left behind, even in the most remote locations like mountains. Also it will increase availability of smart solutions and support to community-led innovations.

INVOLVE (CITIZEN SCIENCE)

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Code: 15200 | Identifier Code: ERC-2022-PERA-1 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 04/11/2021 | End submission calls: 03/02/2022

Involve (citizen science): for activities conducted in collaboration or consultation with the public at any stage of the frontier research project, including its design. Citizen science initiatives comprise activities such as public consultations or citizen juries.

 

INFLUENCE (MEDIA AND POLICY)

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Code: 15190 | Identifier Code: ERC-2022-PERA-3 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 04/11/2021 | End submission calls: 03/02/2022

Influence (media and policy): for activities that foster consultation and exchange with citizen groups to raise awareness on a topic, to address a societal challenge or to contribute to an issue in the public debate. These activities can be undertaken based on preliminary or final project results as well as any particular result or output generated in the context of an ERC frontier research project. Examples of people and organisations that are likely to be engaged under this category include journalists, policy makers at regional, national or international level, non-governmental organisations, citizen or patient groups, product users.

INSPIRE (PUBLIC OUTREACH)

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Code: 15187 | Identifier Code: ERC-2020-PERA-2 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 04/11/2021 | End submission calls: 03/02/2022

Inspire (public outreach): for activities putting the spotlight on a research topic, by disseminating its content, promoting discussion, and/or inspiring potential future researchers. Public outreach initiatives can consist of diverse activities, such as art and science projects, educational programmes, exhibitions, and can include diverse audiences and venues such as students, schools, museums or science festivals.

ERC STARTING GRANTS

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Code: 15185 | Identifier Code: ERC-2022-STG | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 23/09/2021 | End submission calls: 13/01/2022

The ERC Starting Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

ERC Consolidator Grants

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Code: 15182 | Identifier Code: ERC-2022-COG | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: European Research Council (ERC) | Start submission calls: 19/10/2021 | End submission calls: 17/03/2022

The ERC Consolidator Grants are designed to support excellent Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they may still be consolidating their own independent research team or programme. Principal Investigators must demonstrate the ground-breaking nature, ambition and feasibility of their scientific proposal.

Preventing groundwater contamination and protecting its quality against harmful impacts of global and climate change

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Code: 15164 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-ZEROPOLLUTION-01-01 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Additional knowledge is needed to understand the synergistic effects and risks of multiple stressors and pollutants on groundwater quality to better evaluate the impacts of global and climate change, particularly in highly vulnerable areas affected by diffuse pollution, anthropogenic activities and / or water table fluctuations. Actions in this field should aim to identify and assess sources and pathways of groundwater pollution to inform risk management plans at basin / regional scales, with particular consideration of aquifer recharge with reclaimed water and persistent pollutants.

Developing EU advisory networks on water use

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Code: 15161 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01-15 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

The successful proposal will focus on EU-wide consultancy exchanges to increase the speed of knowledge creation and exchange, capacity building, demonstration of innovative solutions, and contribution to their implementation, which accelerates the transitions required. The Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) in which consultants are fully integrated are key drivers for accelerating innovation and acceptance of research results by farmers. This particular issue focuses on the important role that advisors can play in addressing the effects of climate change on water scarcity, water pollution and the avoidance of saline soils, a rapidly coming issue in the most sustainable agriculture of the future.

Improving preparation of multi-actor projects to enable the relevant actors to work in a co-creative way

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Code: 15158 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-GOVERNANCE-01-14 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Project results are expected to contribute to the following outcomes:

1. Improve the drafting of multi-actor project proposals and in particular the involvement of relevant actors with complementary knowledge in a balanced way in the preparatory stage.

3. The CAP cross-cutting objective of modernising the sector by fostering and sharing knowledge, innovation and digitalisation in agriculture and rural areas, and encouraging their uptake. It will provide overall knowledge to the CAP supported projects related to knowledge creation, organisation and sharing.

4. The outcomes will be connecting actors, policies, projects and instruments to speed up innovation.

Scheme that provides incentives to recruit Young People (aged 15-29) not in employment nor Education or Training (NEETs) – Third Call

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Code: 15152 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 08/11/2021 | End submission calls: 21/01/2022

The Scheme aims to encourage employers to recruit young people (aged 15 to 29) years old neither in Employment nor in Education or Training (NEETs). The recruitment is for full time employment.

The Scheme aims to alleviate youth unemployment (aged 15 to 29) years neither in Employment nor in Education or Training ( NEETs)  and the sustainable integration of young people in the labor market, by placing them in subsidized jobs and further gaining work experience. The Scheme is included in the measures of active employment policy promoted by the Government for the implementation of the “Youth Guarantee”.

Moreover, the person covered (candidate for employment) must have been registered as unemployed at the District or Local Employment Office (Public Employment Service -PES).

The method of simplified cost forms will be used to calculate the amount of the sponsorship. The cost unit for the specific Grant Plan is set at € 34 / working day (179 working days) and corresponds to the amount of sponsorship that each beneficiary will receive for each working day to be completed by the beneficiary, regardless of the actual salary costs borne by the employer / beneficiary.

The grant will be provided for ten (10) months of employment with the employer’s obligation to maintain the employment of the employee for two (2) additional months without subsidy.

Eligible expenditure is the salary cost paid by the employer for the employment period, the amount of which will be specified in the Public Funding Agreement. The employment date and submission of the relevant application must be made within the period of the call from 8/11/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

 Who cannot participate in the Scheme:

1. People (candidates for employment) whose employment was previously funded by Co-funded Projects during the Programming Period 2021-2027.
2. (a) Persons who are Shareholders and / or directors of a Company (excluding Public Companies) members of the Board of Directors, Associations / Foundation/ Institutions (b) Persons who are spouses or are affiliated with a first or second degree (either by blood or by marriage) with the employer. That is, they cannot participate in the employer – employee relationship people associated as spouses, children, parents, siblings, grandchildren. For the above exemptions, the employer is specified in (a).
3. Self-employed to subsidize themselves.

The person hired through the Plan must fill a vacancy notified by the Employer to the Public Employment Service (PES) before submitting the application for participation in the Plan. It is clarified that the date of recruitment and the submission of the application cannot be the same.

The date of recruitment of the individual must be within the validity period of the invitation of the Plan and must precede the date of submission of the application for participation. The application form must be submitted within one month from the date of recruitment.

Applications can be send only with email (in pdf) from 8/11/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

Effective systems for authenticity and traceability in the food system

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Code: 15153 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-11 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

The issue of food fraud has been thrust into the spotlight and is of increasing concern to society and to the food industry. It can have very different impacts on consumers, ranging from direct health threats to violation of consumer rights. Τhere is a constant need for sensitive and accurate authentication methods and innovative traceability methods to prevent food fraud and help the industry and official control authorities.

Scheme that provides incentives for the Labor of Unemployed – Third Call

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Code: 15145 | Programme name: 2799 | Start submission calls: 08/11/2021 | End submission calls: 21/01/2022

The Plan aims to encouraging employers to hire unemployed people. The Scheme aims to tackle unemployment by providing incentives to employers to hire the unemployed by subsidizing  part of the salary cost of the person to be hired. The Scheme is included in the measures of active employment policy promoted by the Government for the integration of the unemployed in the labor market through their placement in subsidized jobs, including the provision of vocational training.

Moreover, the person covered (candidate for employment) must have been registered as unemployed at the District or Local Employment Office (Public Employment Service -PES).

The method of simplified cost forms will be used to calculate the amount of the sponsorship. The cost unit for the specific Grant Plan is set at € 34 / working day (179 working days)  and corresponds to the amount of sponsorship that each beneficiary will receive for each working day to be completed by the beneficiary, regardless of the actual salary costs borne by the employer / beneficiary.

The grant will be provided for ten (10) months of employment with the employer’s obligation to maintain the employment of the employee for two (2) additional months without subsidy.

Eligible expenditure is the salary cost paid by the employer for the employment period, the amount of which will be specified in the Public Funding Agreement. The employment date and submission of the relevant application must be made within the period of the call from 8/11/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

 Who cannot participate in the Scheme:

1. People (candidates for employment) whose employment was previously funded by Co-funded Projects during the Programming Period 2021-2027.
2. (a) Persons who are Shareholders and / or directors of a Company (excluding Public Companies) members of the Board of Directors, Associations / Foundation/ Institutions (b) Persons who are spouses or are affiliated with a first or second degree ( either by blood or by marriage) with the employer. That is, they cannot participate in the employer – employee relationship people associated as spouses, children, parents, siblings, grandchildren. For the above exemptions, the employer is specified in (a).
3. Self-employed to subsidize themselves.

The person hired through the Plan must fill a vacancy notified by the Employer to the Public Employment Service (PES) before submitting the application for participation in the Plan. It is clarified that the date of recruitment and the submission of the application cannot be the same.

The date of recruitment of the individual must be within the validity period of the invitation of the Plan and must precede the date of submission of the application for participation. The application form must be submitted within one month from the date of recruitment.

Applications can be send only with email (in pdf ) from 8/11/2021 until the exhaustion of the total budget or relevant announcement.

Integrated surveillance system to prevent and reduce diet-related non communicable diseases (NCDs)

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Code: 15147 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-10 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

NCDs such as cardiovascular diseases, cancers, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes are responsible for the deaths of 41 million people each year, equivalent to 71% of all deaths globally. NCDs have a negative impact on both lives and health budgets but are largely preventable through effective interventions that tackle shared risk factors. Proposals under this Call should consider a range of diet-related NCDs, geographic, socio-economic, behavioural and cultural factors. Data collected and integrated by the private and public sectors should be broken down by gender and by socio-economic groups.

Enhancing biosecurity in terrestrial livestock production

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Code: 15141 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-03 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Biosecurity can prevent or minimise the risk of transmission of infectious diseases not only to animals, but also people (zoonoses), and contributes to the fight against antimicrobial resistance. Proposed projects should address biosecurity at primary production, at least on farms and where animals are handled, but may also address relevant sectors like the feed industry. Effective biosecurity requires constant attention by those implementing it. Biosecurity can more easily be performed in enclosed facilities, like for indoor livestock farming, than in outdoor production, which may facilitate direct or indirect contacts with wildlife and subsequent transmission of a pathogenic infectious agent to livestock, although risks from outdoor farming may not always be higher than indoor.

Socio-economics of pesticide use in agriculture

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Code: 15136 | Identifier Code: HORIZON-CL6-2022-FARM2FORK-01-02 | Programme name: 2939 | Sub-program: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6)(2021-2027) | Start submission calls: 28/10/2021 | End submission calls: 15/02/2022

Research has shown that well-designed integrated pest management programmes can control pests in an ecologically friendly manner; however, farming today relies on chemical treatments to ensure farm profits and yield. A better understanding of the social, economic and policy factors that can hinder or promote the uptake as well as evidence of the economic performance of integrated pest management/ low pesticide practices are needed to identify measures that can enhance its adoption and encourage the involvement of all relevant actors across the value chain.