Open Calls. Horizon Europe - Cluster 6 - Destination 1 - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

Thematic Focus:

Clustering, Development Cooperation, Economic Cooperation, Research & Innovation, Technology Transfer & Exchange, Capacity Building, Cooperation Networks, Institutional Cooperation, Climate, Climate Change, Environment & Biodiversity, Circular Economy, Sustainability, Natural Resources, Agriculture & Forestry, Fishery, Food, Consumer Protection

Open Calls

• A mechanism for science to inform implementation, monitoring, review and ratcheting up of the new EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 ('Science Service')

• Assess and predict integrated impacts of cumulative direct and indirect stressors on coastal and marine biodiversity, ecosystems and their services

• Biodiversity, water, food, energy, transport, climate and health nexus in the context of transformative change

• Breeding for resilience: focus on root-based traits

• Data and technologies for the inventory, fast identification and monitoring of endangered wildlife and other species groups

• Demonstration of measures and management for coastal and marine ecosystems restoration and resilience in simplified socio-ecological systems

• Ecosystems and their services for an evidence-based policy and decision-making

• European participation in global biodiversity genomics endeavours aimed at identifying all biodiversity on Earth

• Fostering organic crop breeding

• Impact and dependence of business on biodiversity

• Improved science based maritime spatial planning and identification of marine protected areas

• Nature-based solutions, prevention and reduction of risks and the insurance sector

• Policy mixes, governance (including financing) and decision-making tools for transformative action on biodiversity

• Quantify impacts of the trade in raw and processed biomass on ecosystems, for offering new leverage points for biodiversity conservation, along supply chains, to reduce leakage effects

• Support to processes triggered by IPBES and IPCC

• Supporting the development of a coherent and resilient Trans-European Nature Network

• Supporting the development of a coherent and resilient Trans-European Nature Network

• The economics of nature-based solutions: cost-benefit analysis, market development and funding

• Understanding and valuing coastal and marine biodiversity and ecosystems services

• Understanding the impacts of and the opportunities offered by digital transformation, new emerging technologies and social innovation on biodiversity

• What else is out there? Exploring the connection between biodiversity, ecosystems services, pandemics and epidemic risk

Deadline date: October 6th, 2021

Origin of Applicant: EU Member States; Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs).

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