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2019-2020 Joint Call
Joint COFUND Call on “Biodiversity and Climate Change”
In the context of its BiodivClim COFUND Action, BiodivERsA launched in September 2019 a joint call to support research on “Biodiversity and climate change”. The call was co-funded by the European Commission and covered four non-exclusive themes:
- Consequences of climate change on biodiversity and nature’s contributions to people
- Climate-biodiversity feedback processes
- Potential of nature-based solutions for mitigating and adapting to climate change
- Synergies and trade-offs between policies on biodiversity, climate and other relevant sectors, and the role of agents of change.
In total, 231 pre-proposals and 82 eligible full proposals were received and evaluated by an independent Evaluation Committee who ranked the projects.
Strictly following the ranking established by the Evaluation Committee, 21 research projects have been shortlisted and recommended for funding by the BiodivClim Call Steering Committee – composed of all the funding organisations participating to the call – representing a total funding amount of over 25Mio€ (including funding from European Commission).
The 21 shortlisted projects are academically excellent projects, mobilising a wide range of disciplines, engaging many relevant stakeholders, and addressing various pressing scientific and societal issues.
!! Please note that the final list of funded projects will be definitely known and published upon national / regional decisions by BiodivClim partners (i.e., at this stage, the list presented below is a list of projects proposed for funding rather than funded for sure) !!
21 projects recommended for funding:
► ACORN - Identifying seed sources for highly adaptable oak forests in a changing climate. (AT, CH, DE, GR, TR).
► ASICS - ASsessing and mitigating the effects of climate change and biological Invasions on the spatial redistribution of biodiversity in Cold environmentS. (FR, AT, BE, CZ, ES, DK, NO, SA).
► BaltVib - Pathogenic Vibrio bacteria in the current and future Baltic Sea waters: mitigating the problem. (DE, EE, DK, FI, LT, PL, SE).
► BIOFAIR - BIOdiversity of soils and FArming Innovations for improved Resilience in European wheat agrosystems. (BE, CH, DE, ES, FR).
► CLAMBIO - Assessing the effects of past and future climate change on Amazonian biodiversity. (FI, BR, DE, UK).
► EASMO - EAStern Tropical Pacific reef fish on the MOve: biodiversity reorganisation and societal consequences. (DE, AU, CO, CR, NO, PT, SE, UK, US).
► EPICC - Environmental Policy Instruments across Commodity Chains: Comparing multi-level governance for Biodiversity Protection and Climate Action in Brazil, Colombia, and Indonesia. (BE, DE, BR, ID, NO, SE).
► FeedBaCks - Feedbacks between Biodiversity and Climate. (CH, CZ, DE, FR, SE).
► FUNPOTENTIAL - Potential of functional diversity for increasing the disturbance resiliency of forests and forest-based socio-ecological systems. (FI, DE, FR).
► FutureArcticLives - Future Arctic livelihoods and biodiversity in a changing climate. (DK, NO, SE).
► GenClim - Biodiversity on the run: evolutionary and socio-economic consequences of shifting distribution ranges in commercially exploited marine fishes. (DK, DE, PT, SA).
► GRADCATCH - Using natural environmental GRADients to decipher the adaptation of soil microbial Communities to climATe CHange. (DK, CH, ES, US, SA).
► MICROSERVICES - Predicting climate change impacts on the crop microbiome and cascading effects on ecosystem services delivery in agroecosystems. (CH, BE, ES, FR, DE, GR).
► MixForChange - Mixed Forest plantations for climate Change mitigation and adaptation. (FR, AT, BE, BR, CA, DE, IT, SE).
► NAPERDIV - Nature-based perennial grain cropping as a model to safeguard functional biodiversity towards future-proof agriculture. (DE, AT, BE, FR, PL, RO, SE).
► NordSalt - Climate Change Impacts and Biodiversity Interactions in Nordic Salt Marshes. (DK, DE, FI, SE, NO).
► PlantCline - Adapting Plant Genetic Diversity to climate change along a continental latitudinal gradient. (SE, BE, ES, FI).
► PRINCESS - Peatland Rewetting In Nitrogen-Contaminated Environments: Synergies and trade-offs between biodiversity, climate, water quality and Society. (DE, AT, BE, FI, PL, NO).
► RangeX - Mechanisms underlying the success and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning of range-expanding species under climate change. (CH, CL, DE, DK, FR, NO, SA, SE).
► RESTORE - Innovative biotechnological strategies to improve tree drought tolerance and microbial diversity for forest restoration purposes: the application of plant associative microorganisms and nature-based materials. (BR, DE, FR).
► SUSTAIN-COCOA - Sustainable sourcing policies for biodiversity protection, climate mitigation, and improved livelihoods in the cocoa sector. (CH, AU, BE, CO, SE).
More information:
► Composition of the Evaluation Committee
last modified 2020-10-06 at 15:37