Fostering a recurrent funding opportunity for transnational biodiversity and ecosystem research across Europe, BiodivERsA has joined forces in November 2013 with the FACCE-JPI* and launched a co-branded call for research projects on « Promoting synergies and reducing trade-offs between food supply, biodiversity and ecosystem services »
This call addressed the following themes:
- To what extent can biodiversity better support agro-ecosystems / agricultural production systems in terms of multi-functionality and outcomes in a global change context?
- Which policies and governance systems can promote the emergence and support of agro-ecosystems / agricultural production systems benefiting from and beneficial to biodiversity and ecosystem services?
Based on the ranking list established by an independent evaluation panel, the Call Steering Committee composed of BiodivERsA and FACCE partners participating to the call has shortlisted the top 8 to 10 research projects (as 2 are presently on a waiting list) for a total funding amount of 9.2 to 10.3 Million €.
The final list of funded projects will be known upon national decisions by BiodivERsA and FACCE partners, in October 2014 at the latest. The 10 shortlisted projects encompass a range of pressing scientific and societal issues at the crossroad between those addressed by BiodivERsA and FACCE.
BASIL: Landscape-scale biodiversity and the balancing of provisioning, regulating and supporting ecosystem services
Eco-serve: Sustainable provisioning of multiple ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes
ECODEAL: Enhancing biodiversity-based ecosystem services to crops through optimized densities of green infrastructure in agricultural landscapes
Ecofruit: Managing ecosystem services for fruit production in different European climates
PromESSinG: Management concept for Central European vineyard ecosystems: Promoting ecosystem services in grapes
STACCATO: SusTaining AgriCultural ChAnge Through ecological engineering and Optimal use of natural resources
TALE: Towards multifunctional agricultural landscapes in Europe: Assessing and governing synergies between biodiversity and ecosystem services
VineDivers: Biodiversity-based ecosystem services in vineyards: analysing interlinkages between plants, pollinators, soil biota and soil erosion across Europe
Complementary waiting list:
CP³: Civil-Public-Private-Partnerships and collaborative governance approaches for policy innovation to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services delivery in agricultural landscapes
BEEHOPE: Honeybee Conservation centres in Western Europe: an innovative strategy using sustainable beekeeping to reduce honeybee decline.
*FACCE-JPI: Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change. Website: https://www.faccejpi.com/
