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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).

21 funded projects
  • 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).
Evaluation Committee
Chair and Vice Chair of the Committee
  • Chair of the Committee: Sir Robert Watson
  • Vice-Chair of the Committee: Simon Gardner
Other members of the committee

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
Funding Organisations

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

E-mail

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.