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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).
- 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).
- Chair of the Committee: Sir Robert Watson
- Vice-Chair of the Committee: Simon Gardner
STEP 1
Scientific experts (21)
- Christian Ammer
- Kate Brauman
- Iain Brown
- Scott Collins
- Simon Ferrier
- Lauchlan Fraser
- Jasmin Godbold
- Hefin Jones
- Rik Leemans
- Carolyn Lundquist
- Nathalie Pettorelli
- Jake Rice
- Carlo Rondinini
- Peter Verburg
- Jan D van Elsas
- Stephen Williams
- Melinda Smith
- Esther Turnhout
- Harriet Bulkeley
- Alex Bush
- Lijbert Brussaard
Policy/management experts (15)
- Jos Brils
- Peter Cochrane
- Simon Duffield
- Colin Hindmarch
- Katia Hueso Kortekaas
- James Lloyd
- Vinod Mathur
- Yulia Stange
- Sunandan Tiwari
- Wouter Vanneuville
- Esther Wolfs
- Bernal Herrera-Fernández
- Marcel Kok
- Cristina Romanelli
- Eugenie Regan
STEP 2
Scientific experts (17)
- Christian Ammer
- Kate Brauman
- Iain Brown
- Scott Collins
- Simon Ferrier
- Lauchlan Fraser
- Jasmin Godbold
- Hefin Jones
- Rik Leemans
- Carolyn Lundquist
- Nathalie Pettorelli
- Jake Rice
- Carlo Rondinini
- Peter Verburg
- Jan D van Elsas
- Frits Mohren
- Niki Frantzeskaki
Policy/management experts (11)
- Jos Brils
- Peter Cochrane
- Simon Duffield
- Colin Hindmarch
- Katia Hueso Kortekaas
- James Lloyd
- Vinod Mathur
- Yulia Stange
- Sunandan Tiwari
- Wouter Vanneuville
- Esther Wolfs
23 organisations from 19 countries funded one or several research teams in this Joint Call.
Contact Point follow-up of the projects: Patricia Vera Bravo: era-medioambiente@aei.gob.es
Countries |
Funding organisations |
Names |
|
Phone |
Austria | FWF | Iris Fortmann | iris.fortmann@fwf.ac.at | +43/1-505 67 40-8211 |
Belgium | BELSPO | Aline van der Werf | aline.vanderwerf@belspo.be | +32 2 23 83 671 |
Belgium | F.R.S.-FNRS | Joël Groeneveld | joel.groeneveld@frs-fnrs.be | +32 2 504 9270 |
Belgium | FWO | Toon Monbaliu Alain Deleener/td> |
eranet@fwo.be | +32 (0)2 550 15 70 +32 (0)2 550 15 95 |
Brazil | CONFAP | Elisa Natola | elisa.confap@gmail.com | n/a |
Brazil (Sao Paolo) | FAPESP | Marie Anne Van Sluys | chamada-biodiversa@fapesp.br | n/a |
Czech Republic | TACR | Matěj Štěpánek | matej.stepanek@tacr.cz | n/a |
Denmark | IFD | Martin Kyvsgaard | martin.kyvsgaard@innofond.dk | n/a |
Estonia | ETAg | Aare Ignat | aare.Ignat@etag.ee | n/a |
Finland | AKA | Harri Hautala | harri.hautala@aka.fi | +358 295 33 5019 |
France | ANR | Céline Billiere | celine.billiere@agencerecherche.fr | +33 1 73 54 82 60 |
Germany | DFG | Gaby Rerig | gaby.rerig@dfg.de | +49 228 885-2406 |
Germany | VDI/VDE-IT | Cristina Krahl Perez | cristina.krahlperez@vdivde-it.de | +49 (0)228 39175-24 |
Greece | GSRT | Anna Rosenberg | a.rosenberg@gsrt.gr | +30 213 13 00 095 |
Lithuania | RCL | Viktoras Mongirdas | viktoras.mongirdas@lmt.lt | +37 067 619 613 |
Norway | RCN | Mari Soleroed | mso@rcn.no | +47 952 13 880 |
Poland | NCN | Anna Wiktor Joanna Komperda |
anna.wiktor@ncn.gov.pl joanna.komperda@ncn.gov.pl |
+48 12 3419166 +48 12 3419138 |
Portugal | FCT | Joana Pinheiro Marta Abrantes |
joana.pinheiro@fct.pt marta.abrantes@fct.pt |
[+351] 213 911 567 [+351] 213 911 596 |
South Africa | DST | Toto Matshediso Vinny Pillay |
Toto.matshediso@dst.gov.za Vinny.pillay@dst.gov.za |
n/a n/a |
Spain | AEI | Patricia Vera Margarita Ruiz-Ramos |
BiodivRestore.cs@aei.gob.es | +34 916 037 752 |
Sweden | FORMAS | Conny Rolén | conny.rolen@formas.se | +46 (0)8 775 40 30 |
Switzerland | SNSF | Stéphanie Wyss Claudia Ellenrieder Madlen Korneli |
stephanie.wyss@snf.ch Claudia.ellenrieder@snf.ch madlen.korneli@snf.ch |
+41 31 308 22 68 +41 31 308 22 73 +41 31 308 24 47 |
Turkey | TAGEM | Turgut Orman Esin Dilbirliği |
turgut.orman@tarimorman.gov.tr esin.dilbirligi@tarimorman.gov.tr |
+90 312 307 60 37 +90 312 307 60 69 |
Notification for German applicants: DLR-PT was replaced by VDI/VDE-IT.
The BiodivClim project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 869237.