Biodiversa+ – the European Biodiversity Partnership – is pleased to announce that its BiodivTransform Call for Transnational Research Proposals on “Biodiversity and Transformative Change – BiodivTransform” is now open. Deadline for pre-proposals submission is Friday 8 November 2024, 15:00 CET.
This Call aims at supporting research and innovation projects to identify, analyse, and comprehend transformation processes that may halt and reverse biodiversity decline.
The scope of the call:
- The worldwide crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollution are highly interlinked, with an urgent need to understand trade-offs and cross-linkages both in terms of drivers and effects. In this context, BiodivTransform will aim for interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and/or cross-sectoral research and innovation projects to identify, analyse, and comprehend transformation processes that may halt and reverse biodiversity decline. It should generate knowledge to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystems, as well as the benefits these may provide to people, through transformative change to mitigate and reverse biodiversity threats.
The call will cover transnational, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral research on transformative change in all parts of the world. All environments (i.e. terrestrial, marine, coastal, and freshwater) will be eligible. However, for Czech Applicants to be eligible, results of the project must be applicable in the environment of the Czech Republic (Applicability of foreseen project outputs and their employment in the conditions of the Czech Republic will be assessed during the national eligibility check).
The rules of the call for Czech applicants are based on the SIGMA programme. The total financial amount of TA CR support for the call for Czech applicants in international projects is EUR 1 000 000. The maximum financial amount of support per project is EUR 170 000. The maximum intensity of support for the Czech side of the project is 80% of the total eligible costs of the project.
To be eligible, research consortia will have to include teams from a minimum of 3 countries financially participating in the Call, including at least 2 from EU Member States or EU Associated Countries. Note that not all EU Member States or Associated Countries will financially participate in this call.
Participating countries:
Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada (Québec), Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Georgia, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Morocco (pending), Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, The Netherlands, Tunisia, and Türkiye (pending).
Proposals (in English only) will have to be submitted electronically. Instructions regarding submission, eligibility and evaluation criteria and other relevant information is published in the official Call documents on Biodiversa+ webpage.
SAVE THE DATE: an information webinar for potential applicants will be organised on 24 September 2024, from 13:00 to 15:00 CEST. Registration is available here.
For more information visit www.tacr.cz/en or www.biodiversa.eu.