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Societal Challenge 5 'Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials' - the policy landscape Anastasios KENTARCHOS, Acting Head of Unit, RTD/C5 European Commission, DG Research and Innovation

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Page 1: Societal Challenge 5 'Climate action, environment ... · European Commission, DG Research and Innovation. New priorities for Europe Key priorities of the new ... •Nature-based solutions

Societal Challenge 5 'Climate action,

environment, resource efficiency and

raw materials'

- the policy landscape

Anastasios KENTARCHOS, Acting Head of Unit,

RTD/C5

European Commission, DG Research and Innovation

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New priorities for Europe

Key priorities of the new

Commission:

A European Green Deal

An economy that works for people

A Europe fit for the digital age

Protecting our European way of life

A stronger Europe in the world

A new push for European democracy

“Becoming the world’s first climate-neutral continent is the greatest challenge and opportunity of our times. It involves

taking decisive action now. We will need

to invest in innovation and research, redesign our economy and update our industrial policy.”

President-elect Ursula von der Leyen

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Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020*

R & I investment of € 30 billion for 3 years

Addressing main concerns of citizenssuch as security, migration and economicsituation…

Focus on impact (fewer & broadertopics with sharpened impactstatements, better dissemination ofresults, open access to data…)

Piloting new initiatives and enabling asmooth transition to Horizon Europe

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Societal Challenge 5: Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials – Work Programme 2018-2020

Focus:

moving to a greener, more resource efficient and climate-resilient economy in sync with the natural environment

demonstrating a strong commitment to supporting the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the targets of the COP21 Paris Agreement

Total indicative budget 2018-2020 €1.1bn, of which €391.2 million for 2020

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The Societal Challenge 5 policy context• Global • European

#DigitalSingleMarket

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Societal Challenge 5: Climate action, environment, resource efficiency and raw materials – Work Programme2018-2020

Two multiannual calls:

‘Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement’

‘Greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’

• 2020 SC5 topics open: 12 November 2019

Cross-cutting call topics already open

• Next call deadlines: 05 Feb 2020 (cross-cutting call) and

13 Feb 2020 (main calls of SC5)

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Call ‘Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement’

In 2020:

Decarbonisation

Climate adaptation, impacts and services

Inter-relations between climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services

The Cryosphere

Knowledge gaps

Earth observationBudget in 2020:

€189,5 million

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Call ‘Greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’

Budget in 2020: €128.86 million

In 2020:

Connecting economic and environmental gains - the circular economy

Raw materials

Innovating cities for sustainability and resilience

Protecting and leveraging the value of our natural and cultural assets: nature-based solutions, disaster risk reduction and natural capital accounting

Specific support and implementation aspects

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Novelties in 2020

• Cross-cutting call ‘Competitive, Low Carbon and Circular Industries ’

More visibility to circular industry topics;

SC5 topics CE-SC5-07-2020, CE-SC5-08-2020 and CE-SC5-31-2020 included in WP part 20 ‘Cross-cutting activities’;

Total budget €58 million.

• Virtual call on plastics

A grouping of topics in different WP parts addressing plastics issues;

5 SC5 circular economy topics participate;

Joint activities encouraged.

• Lump sum pilot

Simplification – no actual cost reporting and no financial audits;

Focus on performance – scientific and technical content;

Topic LC-CLA-18-2020 participates in the pilot.

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Call ‘Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement’ of the

Paris Agreement’

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Decarbonisation

Call ‘Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement’

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LC-CLA-10-2020: Scientific support to designing mitigation pathways and policies

• A need for scientific evidence, analysis and support for EU’s global commitments and long-term strategies;

• A link between the latest climate science, mitigation pathways and underlying policies needs to be reinforced.

Specific Challenge

Scope

Sub-topics:

a)Assessing and designing climate policies for the coming decade - analysis of factors contributing to the delivery on the 2020 energy and climate policy targets and the needed evolution of the mitigation, adaptation and innovation policy mix at all relevant scales.

b) Decarbonisation and lifestyle changes - role of individuals, households and communities in the transition; critical areas of change, and associated social innovation; ways to incentivise change;policies and communication strategies, as well as citizen science activities to engage citizens in climate action.

c) Science underpinning the preparations of NDCs after the 2023 Global Stocktake at a global scale – provision of state-of-the-art evidence to policymakers.

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LC-CLA-10-2020: Scientific support to designing mitigation pathways and policies

Expected Impact

• Measurable support to the EU's long term strategy on greenhouse gas emission reductions;

• Providing national and global pathways towards the Paris Agreement’s global temperature goal and insights into how these can inform countries’ next NDCs;

• Support to the Stocktake Exercise by taking stock of collective progress towards the Paris Agreement goals and investigating how progress can be accelerated;

• Demonstrating how the latest climate science (including the 6th Assessment Report of the IPCC) can be converted into practical advice for national mitigation action.

RIA

Proposals for all sub-topics are encouraged to extend their analysis to some major emitters outside Europe and to selected less-developed countries.

EUR 3-5 millionTwo-stage

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LC-CLA-11-2020: Innovative nature-based solutions for carbon neutral cities and improved air quality

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• Estimated 400 000 deaths per year caused by air pollution; urban citizens are particularly vulnerable;

• Nature-based solutions (NBS) can improve air quality and regulate GHG in the atmosphere, and deliver multiple benefits related to different policy targets;

• There is a need to fill existing knowledge and evidence gaps on the contribution of NBS solutions in addressing the air and carbon challenge in cities.

• Assess the contribution of NBS to combatting air pollution, reducing allergy potential and mitigating airborne pollutants emissions in cities;

• Recommend optimal solutions and typologies for different climatic, environmental and socio-economic conditions and urban designs;

• Evaluate benefits and co-benefits of the deployed solutions;

• Integrate NBS into local decision making and socio-economic transition pathways;

• Enable the continuous monitoring of air pollution and atmospheric carbon concentration;

• Test innovative governance, business and finance models promoting participatory co-creation processes;

• Secure the wide accessibility of the generated data and knowledge;

• Develop an interdisciplinary approach; promote upscaling and replication of solutions; engage in networking and training activities.

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• The creation of an European reference framework and the establishment of EU leadership in a new global market for NBS;

• Increased evidence and awareness of the benefits of re-naturing cities for combatting air pollution and mitigating climate change and for improving health, well-being and resilience to the impacts of climate change;

• Creation of 'communities of practice’;

• Effective, better informed policy-and decision-making across Europe;

• Documented, up-scalable and marketable NBS;

• Enhanced stakeholder and citizen ownership of the solutions;

• Enhanced implementation of relevant EU air quality regulations and environmental policies and programmes, including Paris Agreement and SDGs

IA EUR 10 million

LC-CLA-11-2020: Innovative nature-based solutions for carbon neutral cities and improved air quality

Cooperation, synergies, clustering;

Costs for construction and installation of “infrastructure-targeted” interventions no more than 20% of the total eligible costs

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Climate adaptation, impacts and services

Call ‘Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement’

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• A need to enhance action on adaptation with regard to strengthening scientific knowledge on climate, including research, systematic observation of the climate system and early warning systems;

• Importance of exploiting the potential of very large amounts of climate data for climate adaptation purposes;

• A need to better inform climate services and support decision-making.

a) Mapping European coastal infrastructure at risk from sea-level rise:

• New high-resolution mapping of future sea levels;

• Identification of risks to relevant coastal infrastructure;

• delivering a map of European coastal zone at risk of inundation;

• Low-probability high-impact scenarios;

• Account for local, regional and global processes;

• impact of adaptation measures already in place and projected impacts on population displacements may also be considered.

Cooperation with projects under LC-CLA-13-2020 and relevant on-going Horizon 2020 projects is encouraged.

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RIA EUR 4-6 million

• Strengthened scientific knowledge on climate;

• Better informed climate services and decision-making;

• Enhanced adaptive capacity;

• Enhanced action on adaptation;

• Reduced vulnerability to climate change.

b) Detection & attribution of extreme events using AI -Novel approaches for:• Detection and localisation of extreme events;• Quantifying extreme events trends in current day and future climate

change scenarios;• Attribution of associated impacts to climate change;• Development of AI techniques to detect spatial and temporal patterns

and evolutions of climatological fields associated with extreme events.

Where appropriate, actions should take advantage of Copernicus data.

c) Impacts of overshooting• Assessment and reporting on the impacts associated with overshooting

temperature goals set by the Paris Agreement;• Highlighting regional differences in associated impacts;• Identification of possible adaptation measures and solutions.

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LC-CLA-13-2020: Climate resilience of European coastalcities and settlements

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• Coastal water levels have increased at most locations in Europe;

• Robust adaptation measures are needed in coastal and low-lying areas to protect them from increasing climate and sea level rise risks;

• Knowledge and innovation gaps: uncertainty of regional and local projections; lack of sustainable finance, public-private cooperation; limited knowledge and evidence-base.

• Improve the integrated spatial planning, management and adaptation to Sea Level Rise of Europe's coastal cities and settlements;

• Provide scientific insight, tools, methodologies and innovative solutions to assist European coastal cities in developing coastal resilience plans and dynamic adaptation pathways;

• Improve the design of monitoring plans to detect signals for implementation and/or reassessment of coastal plans;

• Make use of existing Coastal Risk Assessment Frameworks, including socio-economic considerations and tools for multi-hazard assessment;

• Use state-of-the-art predictions of the rate and extent of sea-level changes on time scales of years to decades to identify urban coastal areas at risk;

• Assess and map coastal exposure and vulnerability to sea-level rise considering low probability high impact scenarios (H++);

• Assist decision making in selecting optimal mix of protection measures.

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RIA EUR 10 million

Expected Impact

Clustering activities with other relevant ongoing and future actions;

Capitalise on the work of relevant projects funded under previous and current H2020 Work Programmes;

Make use of and contribute to European knowledge exchange and networking platforms.

• Improved decision-making on suitable adaptations options and coastal management strategies;

• Strengthen the coastal adaptation network between the key actors;

• improve the adaptation of European coastlines to SLR through an Integrated Coastal Zone Management approach supported by cross-sectoral and multi-level governance structures;

• The implementation of the Flood Directive, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the Water Framework Directive, the Natura and Habitats Directives and the Biodiversity Strategy, and Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change.

LC-CLA-13-2020: Climate resilience of European coastalcities and settlements

Two-stage

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Scope

• European mountain regions are important to biodiversity/endemic species and human well-being, but sensitive to global change;

• Europe operates excellent/leading research infrastructures in mountain regions;

• High degree of coordination necessary (Europe and beyond).

Specific Challenge

• Develop a comprehensive European Mountain Research Strategy;

• Build on existing activities;

• Support development of services necessary for adaptation to climate change;

• Improvement/extension of observations – especially in-situ;

• Coordinate with international research organisations and programmes (WMO, ESA, GEO, Copernicus…);

• Support EU Strategy for the Alpine Region (EUSALP).

LC-CLA-23-2020: Towards a comprehensive European mountain research strategy

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EUR 1.5 million

• Substantially raising the scale and ambition of inter-disciplinary mountain regions research policy in Europe;

• Improved coherent and efficient use of European resources for mountain research;

• Significant extension of the Copernicus and EuroGEOSS services and products to the mountain regions;

• Step change in the domain of open data access, quality control and interoperability for mountain region monitoring and adapting to climate change.

CSA

International cooperation is encouraged, in particular with countries such as Canada, China, India, Russia, United States, and Latin American countries.

Expected Impact

LC-CLA-23-2020: Towards a comprehensive European mountain research strategy

One-stage

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Inter-relations between climate change, biodiversity and ecosystem services

Call ‘Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement’

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LC-CLA-14-2020: Understanding climate-water-energy-food nexus and streamlining water-related policies

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• Increasing demands for water, energy, food in the context of climate change, demographic changes, economic development and international trade, create conflicts in water allocation between these sectors;

• There is a need to better align water-related/water-dependent policies looking from the climate-water-energy-food nexus perspective at various geographical scales, and taking into account economic, political and societal aspects.

• Develop and test innovative solutions, improved operations and integrated management and planning for achieving water, energy and food security and safety within the planetary boundaries and resolve conflicts related to water use;

• Develop new integrated policies, governance mechanisms, learning and communication tools;

• Address mechanisms and tools that support common evidence, and build and enhance trust between different stakeholders;

• Address climate impacts on integrated water management in case studies over different geographical regions and challenges.

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RIA EUR 4-5 million

Expected Impact

Participation of a broad range of stakeholders is expected

International cooperation is encouraged

LC-CLA-14-2020: Understanding climate-water-energy-food nexus and streamlining water-related policies

• More accurate evaluations of future demands for water, energy, food and related infrastructures;

• Enhance sharing knowledge and best practices in climate-water-energy-food nexus assessment and management and help create critical mass on capacity to innovate;

• Improve integrated water resources management and increase resilience to climate change.

• Help linking EU water policy objectives with the sustainable objectives of greening the CAP and energy efficiency policy objectives and assess the impacts of EU regulatory framework (e.g. Renewable Energy Directive) on a sustainable water-energy-food nexus;

• Reduce institutional fragmentation, reduce the water risks for the energy sector, and optimize market and trade solutions across the nexus;

• Strengthen EU role in international water issues, and become a leading actor on water diplomacy.

Two-stage

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LC-CLA-15-2020: Forest Fires risk reduction: towards an integrated fire management approach in the E.U.

Scope

• Forest fires are a major hazard in the EU; more people will be at risk, for longer periods of time;

• A need to improve fire management and governance by shifting the focus from fire suppression to prevention; developing more balanced long-term forest management strategies integrating fire prevention with forestry, land management, rural and urban development, climate and energy policy objectives; and increasing the awareness and preparedness of people at risk.

• Generate the knowledge, tools, capacity and guidance to underpin an Integrated Fire Management (IFM) strategy;

• Assess changes in fire regimes under various scenarios;

• Understanding extreme wildfire events, including causes, impacts, and different processes at play;

• Develop and implement communication and outreach strategies to increase awareness and preparedness of populations at risk;

• Explore trade-offs and synergies between various elements influencing forest fires risk management;

• Develop methods to assess and mitigate vulnerability of societies to wildfires involving participatory approaches for the design and planning of IFM.

Specific Challenge

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RIA EUR 10 million

Expected Impact

Actions should take advantage of Copernicus data; Outcomes to be uploaded on open access platforms; Clustering with relevant ongoing and future projects.

• National strategies for forest fire risk reduction and risk-informed decision-making, in compliance with the EU Forest Strategy and other relevant EU policies;

• Improved coherence between EU policies’ objectives and national legislative frameworks;

• More disaster-resilient communities through increased awareness and preparedness of populations at risk and a common culture of risk;

• Increased knowledge exchange, sharing and access through relevant networks and platforms;

• Harmonisation and exchange on methods of consistently recording and measuring wildfires;

• Common framework for firefighting modules, training, exercises, incident management and command strategies to increase the awareness and preparedness of populations at risk.

LC-CLA-15-2020: Forest Fires risk reduction: towards an integrated fire management approach in the E.U.

Two-stage

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LC-CLA-16-2020: Multi-hazard risk management for risk-informed decision–making in the E.U.

Scope

• Natural hazard risks have increased dramatically in Europe, due to climate, land use and socio-economic changes;

• Improved disaster risk management and reduction requires an integrated approach to better forecast, prevent and adapt to multiple hazards, their interactions and impacts;

• Risk managers and decision-makers need innovative and comprehensive methodologies, models and tools that assess multi-hazard risks and their associated cascading effects.

• Define a common framework for risk and vulnerability assessments for areas exposed to multiple natural hazards;

• Develop of a harmonised and standardised multi-hazard risk management approach in order to compare the threats and combined effects posed by several natural hazards and evaluate the risks related to their interactions and cascade/simultaneous effects on the socio-ecological systems;

• Develop quantitative scenarios on present and future risks, and potential direct and indirect effects, in a multi risk environment;

• Develop mapping tools and user-friendly ICT open interfaces to better understand the model scenarios and outputs.

Specific Challenge

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RIA EUR 3-5 million

Expected Impact

Actions should take advantage of Copernicus data

Clustering with relevant ongoing and future projects

• A consensus in better definitions, indicators and functions to characterize multi-hazard risk;

• Prioritisation of investments and pertinent selection of effective risk reduction management options;

• Enhanced capacity for identification of vulnerable, threatened areas and infrastructures most at risk from multi hazards in Europe;

• Enhanced understanding of the relationships and interactions of multiple hazards;

• Better knowledge exchange through platform and stakeholder networks on emergent risks and extreme events.

LC-CLA-16-2020: Multi-hazard risk management for risk-informed decision–making in the E.U.

Two-stage

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The Cryosphere

Call ‘Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement’

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LC-CLA-17-2020: Polar climate: understanding the polar processes in a global context in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions

Scope

• Many of the natural physical processes occurring in the polar atmosphere and oceans are potentially of profound significance in controlling conditions across the globe and affecting lives and livelihoods across the world;

• Understanding the interacting nature and feedback of polar processes and addressing their consequences in a global context will benefit the people, policy and businesses well beyond the Polar Regions.

• Develop innovative approaches, building on existing data resources and infrastructures, the latest observational products (including in-situ observations), and state-of-the-art climate models, to assess the key physical and chemical processes in the ocean and atmosphere and the key ocean-atmosphere-ice interactions;

• Cooperate with relevant projects funded by the ESA Earth Observation Programme;

• Actions encouraged to join the EU Arctic Polar Cluster in order to build synergies and maximize the complementarity of the different actions in the Cluster;

• Build on previous actions funded under Horizon 2020, avoid duplication/overlaps.

Specific Challenge

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RIA EUR 7-8 million

Expected Impact

International cooperation encouraged with countries that took part in the Arctic Science Ministerials of 2016 and 2018

• Improved understanding of how the changing polar climate systems affect and are affected by lower latitudes through ocean and atmospheric circulation;

• Improved understanding of the key ocean-atmosphere-ice interactions;

• Improved understanding of the fully coupled physical climate system (atmosphere-ocean-ice) on diverse space and time scales;

• Improved understanding of the key physical and chemical processes in the ocean and in the atmosphere;

• Improved projections of future polar and global climate, including feedbacks and impacts;

• Improved capability to respond to the impact of climatic change on the environment and human activities in the Polar Regions (with a focus on the Arctic), both in the short and longer term;

• The IPCC scientific assessments, the consolidation phase of the Year Of Polar Prediction (YOPP) and to the Copernicus Climate Change (C3S) services.

LC-CLA-17-2020: Polar climate: understanding the polar processes in a global context in the Arctic and Antarctic Regions

Two-stage

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LC-CLA-21-2020: Coordination of European Polar research

• The EU is a major investor and player in Polar research;

• The EU also supports the development and the international access to research infrastructures throughout the Polar Regions;

• Previous actions were instrumental in providing the needed support and the high degree of coordination within the European landscape and beyond.

Further coordination is needed.

• Provide a platform to co-develop strategies to advance and further coordinate the European Polar Research action and its contribution to the policy-making processes, including the prioritisation of research areas, strategies for capacity building, allocation of seed money for the preparation of pre-studies and interaction with national funding agencies;

• A special focus on supporting the implementation of sustained observation systems in the Arctic and Antarctic by setting up a European coordination office.

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Proposals should cooperate with the relevant services of the European Commission and provide evidence-based policy advice.

Proposals should coordinate the EU Polar Research Cluster (https://www.eu-polarnet.eu/eu-polar-cluster/)

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CSA

• Substantially advance Polar research cooperation in Europe by creating a Polar European Research Area;

• A more synergetic use of European resources;

• The policy advice at regional, national and EU level and to the support of the EU's international commitments with respect to the Arctic Council, the Montreal protocol, the UNFCCC and others related to polar sciences;

• Improved cooperation of international polar research programmes and create the basis for the development of future large-scale joint international polar initiatives;

• The support of international scientific cooperation initiatives of the European.

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LC-CLA-21-2020: Coordination of European Polar research

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Knowledge gaps

Call ‘Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement’

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LC-CLA-18-2020: Developing the next generation of Earth System Models

Scope

• Ensembles of scenario-based runs for designing and evaluating mitigation pathways and goals;

• ESMs still have several areas of improvement around predicting capability, process realism, capacity of resolving epistemic uncertainty, needs of parametrisation, reduction in systematic biases, time and resolution.

Specific Challenge

• Address one or more of the competing demands that surround the advancement of ESMs;

• Aaim to develop innovative and effective approaches that add to or better represent Earth system processes linked to climate change;

• Further explore novel ways of coupling existing models (e.g., ice-sheet dynamics) with ESMs and where appropriate, improve synergies with reduced complexity carbon-cycle, atmospheric composition and climate models;

• Actions are encouraged to explore linkages with relevant Integrated Assessment Models.

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RIA-LS EUR 10-12 milion

Expected Impact

This topic is part of the lump sum funding pilot scheme

• Improved models for the provision of climate services;

• Increased confidence in climate projections;

• Sustaining European leadership in climate science and Earth System Modelling;

• Supporting the operationalization of the Paris Agreement with a view to delivering effective climate action;

• Informing major international scientific assessment reports (e.g. IPCC).

LC-CLA-18-2020: Developing the next generation of Earth System Models

Two-stage

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Lump sum pilot

Simplification: the lump sum for the grant is set out at its

signature, the costs actually incurred are not relevant.

Focus on performance: shift from focus on financial

management and checking costs to focus on scientific-

technical content of the projects

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Applicants provide a detailed estimation of costs in the proposal (2nd stage)

Evaluation process follows the standard approach – same evaluation criteria.

Experts assess cost details during evaluation and make recommendations.

Lump sum pilot - how will it work in practice?

The lump sum is fixed during the grant agreement preparation – one lump sum share for each work package

Same pre-financing and payment scheme once the GA is signed.

Reporting periods and technical reporting remain the same but focus on the completion of work packages.

Payment is made when the activities in the work package are completed.

More information: Video and Frequently Asked Questions at the Funding & Tenders Portal

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Scope

• The EU is a major investor and global player in both climate change and health research;

• Bringing together climate change and health research has been a particular challenge in Europe that requires coordination and support, including through the Belmont Forum.

Specific Challenge

• Develop and provide support mechanisms to boost the global added value of the Belmont Forum’s Collaborative Research Action (CRA) on Climate, Environment and Health and its inputs to relevant EU policy-making processes.

• Prioritisation of R&I areas, capacity building, cross-fertilisationactivities amongst Belmont Forum, EU and relevant nationally funded projects, and synthesis of their results;

• Support a knowledge management platform of EU funded R&I on the linkages between health and climate;

• Support the Belmont Forum Members, partners and secretariat, in relation to this CRA and support the organisation of an international conference.

LC-CLA-22-2020: Enhancing the Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action on Climate, Environment and Health

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EUR 3 million

• Contribute to policy advice on climate change and health at international and EU level and supporting the EU's international commitments with respect to the Paris Agreement;

• UNFCCC and others related to climate change and health sciences (e.g. WHO, the Lancet Countdown);

• Bolstering a network of projects funded under the CRA call with relevant EU-funded projects addressing climate, environment and health;

• Better flow of information and knowledge dissemination on climate change, environment and health to low and medium income countries;

• Raising global awareness of climate impacts on human, plant and animal health.

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LC-CLA-22-2020: Enhancing the Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action on Climate, Environment and Health

Cooperation with relevant existing projects under H2020 SC1 & SC5;

Cooperation with the relevant services, expert groups and mechanisms of the European Commission.

Expected Impact

One-stage

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Earth observation

Call ‘Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future: climate action in support of the Paris Agreement’

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LC-CLA-19-2020: Integrated GEOSS climate applications to support adaptation and mitigation measures of the Paris Agreement

Scope

• Timely and reliable Earth Observation data and information are indispensable to support the EU in its international commitment on climate change;

• Developing integrated solutions depends on European capability to combine multiple EO data-sets – including GEOSS and Copernicus –with modelling, socio-economic and in-situ data in different domains.

Specific Challenge

• Develop applications in support of users involved in implementation of climate adaptation and mitigation actions;

• Integrate a range of EO data – including in-situ and Essential Climate Variables (ECV);

• Use higher spatial and/or temporal data sets;

• Take advantage of broader open access and new data technologies;

• Focus on climate adaptation applications or on feeding new indicators for monitoring progress towards SDGs;

• Make use of GEOSS Platform, contributing to GEO Tasks and the EuroGEO initiative;

• Underpin IPCC, complement Copernicus core services, and address end user needs in Europe.

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Expected Impact

• Support adaptation and mitigation measures of the Paris Agreement, and other GEO priorities (SDGs, Sendai Framework);

• European input to the GEO Work Programmepost-2019 to address climate change challenge cross-cutting all GEO Societal Benefit Areas;

• Increase European capability to combine multiple EO data sets with other data, base on systematic exploitation of the GEOSS platform;

• Reinforcing in-situ component of European observing systems for monitoring ECVs;

• EuroGEOSS applications to better understand climate change contributors and impacts.

RIA

LC-CLA-19-2020: Integrated GEOSS climate applications to support adaptation and mitigation measures of the Paris Agreement

Two-stage EUR 4-5 million

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LC-CLA-20-2020: Supporting the implementation of GEOSS in the Arctic in collaboration with Copernicus

There is a need to develop coordinated Earth observations and information services targeting Arctic in order to

gain more insight in its climate, ecological and environmental change and to facilitate well-informed decisions;

support a sustainable development in the Arctic, particularly to respond to the needs of its inhabitants;

improve the monitoring and predicting capabilities on changes that may affect other parts of the planet.

• Advance the operationalisation of an integrated pan-Arctic Observing System in preparation for a possible future ArcticGEOSS initiative;

• Improve and extend the terrestrial, marine and cryospheric in-situ measurements and the community-based monitoring systems;

• Set up pilot services and implement the coordinated network of those services necessary for the adaptation to climate change in the region;

• Contribute to the interoperability of Arctic Data systems;

• Contribute to national, regional and international decision-making processes and science strategies;

• Help to build an Arctic “window” of Copernicus;

• The pilot services should fall into the scope of EuroGEOSS and follow the direction of the EuroGEOSS initiative.

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LC-CLA-20-2020: Supporting the implementation of GEOSS in the Arctic in collaboration with Copernicus

• The implementations the GEO-Cold Region Initiative with a specific emphasis on the Arctic, and the initiating of an ArcticGEOSS initiative;

• Sound and effective decision-making by policy makers in the Arctic regions through the use of reliable and science-based Earth observation and information;

• Supporting of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030;

• Strengthening Earth observation capacity focused on the European region;

• Delivering EuroGEOSS services for the Arctic;

• Improved handling, archiving and interoperability of environmental data in polar regions;

• A coherent data management, through the use of GEOSS Data Management Principles and best practices (aligning with INSPIRE).

EUR 15 million

Coordination with projects stemming from the NSFs Arctic portfolio; Coordination with relevant projects funded by European Space Agency – Earth

Observation Programme; Joining the EU Polar Cluster https://www.eu-polarnet.eu/eu-polar-cluster/; Building on previous H2020 actions related to GEO and Copernicus, and avoiding

duplication/overlaps; International cooperation with countries taking part in the Arctic Science Ministerials.

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Call ‘Greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’

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Call ‘Greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’

Circular economySDGs)’

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Scope

Composite and multi-layer materials are increasingly used. This poses a challenge for sorting, separation, recycling, composting, or the reintroduction into manufacturing.

A better understanding of these challenges should inform the design of composite and multi-layer materials.

Specific Challenge

• Develop new or improve existing innovative processes and assess the barriers for their implementation; proposals can deal with used products, production rejects or existing stocks;

• Aim to optimise value retention rather than downgrading;

• Provide recommendations for future design and product information requirements;

• Provide evidence of the potential market impact;

• This topic supports the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy.

CE-SC5-24-2020: Improving the sorting, separation and recycling of composite and multi-layer materials

TRL 5-6

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• Increased yield and quality of sorting of products made of composite or multi-layer materials;

• Increased recycling of raw materials from products made of composite or multi-layer materials, in terms of volume and/or quality;

• Reduced use of virgin raw materials;

• Increased knowledge on how to design for reuse and recycling (“circular design”) of products currently made of composite or multi-layer materials;

• Increased knowledge on the process environmental footprint, including the net effects on greenhouse gas emissions, of improved sorting, separation and recycling of composite and multi-layer materials.

RIA

Selected projects under this topic, as well as projects selected under other topics in H2020 supporting the Plastics Strategy, are strongly encouraged to participate in joint activities.

Expected Impact

CE-SC5-24-2020: Improving the sorting, separation and recycling of composite and multi-layer materials

Two-stage

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Scope

The transition to CE entails a systemic transformation of entire value chains.

The understanding of this transition will be important for the development of CE approaches and targeted policy measures.

Best practices will serve as an inspiration for projects and inform new and adapted policies and policy tools.

Specific Challenge

• Assess current state of CE transition in relevant sectors and analysepossible transition scenarios;

• Sectors identified in CE Action Plan or others if justified according to environmental footprint etc.;

• Social, economic and environmental aspects;

• Role of public awareness and acceptance and other social aspects; gender;

• Attention to the issue of hazardous materials in CE;

• Policy recommendations at local, national, European and global levels;

• This topic supports the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy.

CE-SC5-25-2020: Understanding the transition to a circular economy and its implications on the environment, economy and society

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EUR 3-4 million

• More systemic policy decisions to further facilitate the transition to a safe, environmentally friendly, efficient and effective circular economy in selected sectors;

• Efficient and effective use of both primary and secondary resources in Europe, reducing waste generation, negative health impacts, environmental pollution and greenhouse gas emissions;

• New business opportunities for European industries and SMEs;

• Creating new tools and methodologies oriented to companies, to consider social, environmental and economic aspects when they design circular business models;

• Creating incentives and support the development of strategic governance mechanisms that enable the transition to a Circular Economy and contribute to the effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Europe;

• Supporting the achievement of climate commitments and specific quantitative targets on resources efficiency, recycling rates or waste disposal quotas.

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Selected projects under this topic, as well as projects selected under other topics in H2020 supporting the Plastics Strategy, are strongly encouraged to participate in joint activities.

International cooperation encouraged, particularly with Africa

CE-SC5-25-2020: Understanding the transition to a circular economy and its implications on the environment, economy and society

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Scope

Circular Economy (CE) innovation often takes place in silos. Improvements in one domain can weaken value retention elsewhere in the value chain.

Systemic innovation should create value for the whole system. There is a need to design and pilot circular systems, including business models, products and materials, covering the entire value chain.

Specific Challenge

• Develop and pilot systemic CE innovations in specified sectors, taking into account value retention throughout life cycle;

• Bring together actors from across value chain;

• Business models, products, materials, industrial symbiosis;

• Apply life cycle perspective and quantify targeted market and environmental and societal benefits;

• Data and information exchange; avoid silos to understand better mutual dependencies of actors;

• This topic supports the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy.

CE-SC5-28-2020: Develop and pilot circular systems in plastics, textiles and furniture sectors

TRL 6-7

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EUR 7-8 million

• Effective use of both primary and secondary resources in Europe;

• First-hand insights on how to develop and support systemic innovation towards a circular economy, starting from selected sectors;

• Evidence to inform more systemic policy decisions to further facilitate the transition to an effective circular economy;

• Systemic knowledge of product service systems and circular design management systems;

• New business opportunities for European industries and SMEs;

• The achievement of climate commitments and specific quantitative targets on resources efficiency, recycling rates or waste disposal quota; more information on related greenhouse gas emissions;

• Long-term value creation and positive impacts on the environment, health and quality of life of users.

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Scope

There is a need to harmonise EU-wide methods for determining the composition and occurrence of plastics in various relevant environmental compartments (e.g. marine waters, marine sediments, freshwater, soil, air).

Specific Challenge

• Bring together the main national research groups dealing with the plastic pollution monitoring and assessment in different environmental matrices and develop a common European framework;

• Provide harmonised methods for sampling, monitoring, identification and analysis of plastics; proposals as a basis for international and European standards (ISO / CEN); recommendations for future relevant EU policy and legislation; increased knowledge on the occurrence of plastics in the environment, including guidance on data management;

• Ensure a critical mass of actors and increased synergies between all relevant research areas, industry, regulators, associations and relevant EU services and standardisation bodies;

• This topic supports the European Strategy for Plastics in a Circular Economy.

CE-SC5-29-2020: A common European framework to harmonise procedures for plastics pollution monitoring and assessments

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EUR 2 million

• Achieving the objectives of the EU Plastics Strategy, in particular with regard to the possibilities for future prioritisation of measures in Europe and to the possibilities of reviewing their effectiveness in terms of reducing emissions, and contributing to the implementation of Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda foreseen in that strategy;

• Fostering innovative policymaking through robust methodologies and uniformed tools and reduction of analytical uncertainties;

• Bringing the EU to the forefront of international discussion and collaboration in the field of plastic pollution monitoring and assessing through the know-how generated (planned publications and templates for standardisation procedures);

• Improving the economic viability of analytical instrument manufacturers;

• Establishing a framework and foundation for the implementation of European and global level monitoring programmes for nano-, micro- and macro-plastic.

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Selected projects under this topic, as well as projects selected under other topics in H2020 supporting the Plastics Strategy, are strongly encouraged to participate in joint activities.

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Current understanding of the sources, transport mechanisms and impacts of plastic pollution is mainly focused on a specific environmental compartment.

To develop long-term mitigation solutions and help decision-makers in reducing exposures, a thorough understanding of the whole environment is needed, as well as a wider effort bringing together experiences from different disciplines.

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• Gain a better understanding on the sources, transport, distribution and impact of plastic pollution.

• Activities should address:• sources of plastic pollution;• transport and pathways of plastics into and through different

environmental compartments;• occurrence and distribution of plastic in environment;• accumulation, including in soil and the food chain;• degradation mechanisms for different plastic materials;• physical and chemical effects of plastic pollution on different

environments.

• Address different ecosystems, geographical areas and spatial scales.

CE-SC5-30-2020: Plastics in the environment: understanding the sources, transport, distribution and impacts of plastics pollution

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EUR 5 million

• Achieving the objectives of the Plastics Strategy, in particular with regard to the possibilities for future prioritisation of measures in Europe;

• Providing a foundation for the development of mitigation solutions, based on improved and new knowledge on plastics pollution;

• Identifying promising intervention points and targeted actions for fighting plastics pollution, in line with of the CE Action Plan and Plastics Strategy;

• Establishing the EU as a scientific leader in the area of understanding and solving plastic pollution.

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Selected projects under this topic, as well as projects selected under other topics in H2020 supporting the Plastics Strategy, are strongly encouraged to participate in joint activities;

Cooperation with existing national and EU funded activities, such as the JPI Oceans initiative, is encouraged.

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Innovating citiesSDGs)’

Call ‘Greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’

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• By 2050, about a half of the human population will live in cities, including in informal settlements lacking appropriate waste water collection infrastructure and treatment facilities;

• Nature-based treatment solutions (NBS) could improve water quality and water use efficiency while contributing to climate adaptation;

• The challenge is how to design enhanced natural treatment systems that will provide effective ecological services of water purification and storage, and constitute an integral part of the overall urban water cycle while providing attractive components of the urban landscape.

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• Identify and review examples of innovative natural water treatment systems;

• Develop methodologies and guidance for the design and implementation of urban enhanced natural treatment systems and their integration into the urban water cycle, the urban landscape and the receiving waters to enhance the circularity and sustainability;

• Develop new business models for construction, long-term management and maintenance of such systems, as well as standards for the treatment processes;

• Pilots/demonstrations for testing innovative approaches or the use of established solutions under new conditions;

• Methodologies for public/social engagement.

SC5-27-2020: Strengthening international collaboration: enhanced natural treatment solutions for water security and ecological quality in cities

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• Increased use of innovative natural water treatment measures;

• Enhanced water availability with reduced pressure on existing freshwater resources;

• Increased investments into natural water treatment solutions from urban authorities, water companies or property developers;

• Sharing and cross-fertilisation of capacity, expertise and know-how among European and international partners on new innovative natural water treatment concepts and solutions;

• Increased business opportunities for the design, development and installation of natural water treatment measures in cities.

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Pilot actions/demonstrations must be implemented in at least 3 cities situated in different Member States or Associated Countries;

International cooperation strongly encouraged;

Clustering activities with relevant ongoing and future NBS relevant H2020 projects;

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Nature-based solutions, disaster risk reductionand natural capital accountingSDGs)’

Call ‘Greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’

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• Develop tools, guidelines and methodologies to better understand, analyse, assess and possibly predict the trends and causes of the wild pollinators decline.

• Assess and valuate of wild pollinators ecosystem services and their impacts on nature, society, human wellbeing and the economy.

• Address relations between plant diversity and pollinator diversity, as well as factors determining spatio-temporal variation of pollinator communities.

• A systemic approach, considering all factors influencing plant - pollinator diversity and distribution.

• Mobilisation of wider public engagement; knowledge dissemination and communication towards policy makers and other stakeholders; and informing relevant science-policy processes in EU at all levels.

SC5-32-2020: Addressing wild pollinators decline and its effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services

• Wild pollinators are declining in occurrence and diversity in the EU.

• This will have far-reaching consequences on terrestrial ecosystems and their services, thus hindering the EU’s path to sustainable development and threatening economy and human wellbeing.

• The knowledge gaps are still considerable. There is a need to assess the full extent of the decline and its repercussions on society and economy.

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• Mitigation of causes and consequences and reverse trends in wild pollinators decline;

• Better informed EU-wide and global pollinators relevant policy and decision-making through timely dissemination of research outcomes to UN conventions, IPCC, IPBES and SBSTTA;

• More accurate assessment, predictions, valuation and mapping of the multiple ecosystem services linked to wild pollinators, enabling their mainstreaming into natural capital accounts;

• Enabling adequate policy responses in the areas of the environment, agriculture and health, and allow tracking EU progress towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals 2 and 15;

• Delivering key knowledge for the preparation of key indicators and methodologies for monitoring pollinators;

• An integrated assessment framework to address pollinators decline and its impacts on nature, society, human wellbeing and the economy.

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Actions should take advantage of Copernicus data, in particular from the Copernicus Land Monitoring and Climate Change Service.

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• Design an EU-wide framework for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services (integration of different reporting streams and data sources; cost-effectiveness, comparability and timeliness, links to policy targets, etc);

• Provide scientific advice and analysis on the best EU-level monitoring approaches to measuring implementation of EU ecosystem and biodiversity targets;

• Facilitate exchange between relevant national and EU level actors;

• Support/benefit from the EU’s contribution to international biodiversity agreements and initiatives;

• Facilitate work on building the national data foundations needed for ecosystem assessment and accounting at Member State level.

SC5-33-2020: Monitoring ecosystems through research, innovation and technology

• Biodiversity continues to decline, therefore improved monitoring of changes in natural capital is needed to better understand links between biodiversity loss and the drivers of change, and the impact on society;

• Current efforts are fragmented and taxonomically biased; uptake of monitored biodiversity data in policy design, implementation and evaluation is low;

• The challenge is therefore to devise an EU-level approach to ecosystem monitoring.

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• The implementation of the Bioeconomy Strategy, including the better use of Copernicus through calibrating with ground data;

• The implementation of ecosystem-related EU policies, action plans, programmes and initiatives;

• Scenarios, assessments and data in the context of initiatives such as IPBES, GEO/GEOSS, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility or IPCC; and in EU initiatives on Nature-based Solutions or sustainable agriculture;

• Proposing EU-level monitoring approaches of key EU ecosystem and biodiversity targets (including recommendations on the most accurate and cost-effective techniques);

• The integration of citizen-science data and research data depositories into publically accessible EU-level data bases.

CSA

The action is expected to work with KIP INCA partners, as well the EEA;

The action should explore potential synergies with previous and future actions under EU R&I framework programmes and avoid duplication/overlaps.

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Specific support and implementationaspectsSDGs)’

Call ‘Greening the economy in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)’

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• Based on the SRIA of the Water Joint Programming Initiative (Water JPI) and of the BiodivERsA Partnership, pool national/regional financial resources to implement a joint call with EU co-funding and at least one joint call without EU co-funding, as well as other “enabling” activities;

• R&I supported through grants to third parties with EU co-funding under the joint call should cover all environments (i.e. terrestrial, freshwater and marine) and include a specific focus on freshwater aquatic systems;

• Implement relevant EU policies and objectives, and international endeavours.

SC5-34-2020: ERA-NET Cofund action on conservation and restoration of degraded ecosystems and their biodiversity, including a focus on aquatic systems

• Restoration and conservation of degraded ecosystems in terrestrial, freshwater and marine environments are essential to ensure that they continue to deliver their services and the livelihoods of people depending on these ecosystems can be sustained;

• Further R&I at the EU level is needed to fill the knowledge and evidence gaps to ensure the protection and/or restoration of water bodies and ecosystems whilst meeting the socio-economic, political and cultural needs.

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• Better management, conservation and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystems through science-based evidence and the deployment of on-the-ground actions;

• The implementation of a relevant European policy initiatives;

• Underpinning Europe’s endeavours to implement the UN SDGs, especially SDG 6, SDG 14, and SDG 15;

• Strengthening international leadership of European research in R&I on restoration and ecological engineering through transnational collaboration and enhanced synergy, coordination and coherence between national and EU funding in the relevant research fields;

• Contribute to the European Commission’s Long-Term Strategy on GHG Emissions Reduction.

International cooperation is encouraged;

Clustering activities with other relevant selected projects;

Action should take into account data and information from the Copernicusprogramme and European Union's Earth Observation Programme.

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ERA-NET Cofund One-stage

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• Build on JPI Urban Europe SRIA and pool national (or regional) financial resources to implement a joint call with EU co-funding and at least one joint call without EU co-funding, as well as other “enabling” activities;

• Issues to be addressed include urban circular economy, urban design, planning and resilience;

• Community-based approaches for integrative urban innovation ecosystems, urban infrastructure and built environment transformations;

• Enhanced urban transformational capacities - special attention to public sector innovation and governance;

• Promote participatory experimental approaches such as urban living labs, policy labs, third spaces, think thanks etc.;

• Engage relevant stakeholders in open innovation and co-creation.

SC5-35-2020: ERA-NET Cofund action on enhancing urban transformation capacities

• Cities are key players for the transition towards a sustainable economy and society;

• For such transition to take place, there is a need to overcome implementation gap and enhance urban transformation capacities through integrated approaches, innovative technologies, tools and solutions and through co-creation.

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• Ensuring effective trans-national, pan-European research networking and synergies among national/regional and EU research programmes in the areas addressed to ensure delivery of integrated approaches that support urban economic transitions in a sustainable and applicable fashion;

• Clear progress to reaching targets of the New Urban Agenda, SDG 11 and the Urban Agenda for the EU through enhanced urban transformation capacities of the competent urban authorities in the key areas such as integrated pathways and solutions, urban design and planning, circular economy and resilience;

• Improved evidence-based policy through the interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary science-policy interface and links with international efforts and fora on the areas addressed.

Actions should capitalise on, establish synergies and avoid overlaps with other European R&I initiatives in sustainable urbanisation.

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Call ‘Competitive, Low Carbon and Circular Industries ‘

(H2020 WP Section 20. Cross-cutting activities)

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• Reliable information about the components and materials is needed to achieve value retention in products;

• Existing practices do not cover critical information needs regarding circularity or the overall life cycle performance;

• There is a need for designing and piloting an information system that is linked to the whole material and value flows in an ideally circular system;

• The concept, the data flow and the specific needs of each actor should be studied in a pilot.

• Bring together all relevant actors along product related value chains;

• Selected products should have a major environmental impact, a high potential for circularity, a complex supply chain, and should be linked to critical resource issues;

• Information flows designed with a view to increase circularity, traceability and environmental footprint;

• Open solutions are encouraged; ambition to grant open access to the underlying architecture while addressing data protection, user privacy and liability;

• Life cycle perspective for environmental, social and economic assessment, quantify environmental benefits with PEF method.

CE-SC5-31-2020: Develop, implement and assess a circular economy oriented product information management system for complex products from cradle to cradle

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• The development of new businesses related to the transition to a circular economy;

• Effective use of both primary and secondary resources in Europe;

• Achieving the targets of the EIP on Raw Materials, particularly in terms of feeding secondary raw materials knowledge into the EC Raw Materials Information System;

• Better insights into the material composition of products and the amount of secondary raw materials in circulation;

• Streamlined social life cycle assessment ensuring comparability and validity, allowing to critically review green claim and enabling consumers to take environmentally informed purchasing decisions, as well as allowing product designers and developers to take environmentally informed design decisions at an early stage;

• Better insights on how to transfer successful information management approaches to other businesses and sectors.

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Researchand Innovation

#HorizonEU

Commission proposal for

THE NEXT EU RESEARCH & INNOVATION

PROGRAMME (2021 – 2027)

Horizon Europe

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Horizon EuropeAmbitious EU research and innovation framework programme (2021-

2027)

to strengthen the EU's scientific and technological bases

to boost Europe's innovation capacity, competitiveness and jobs

to deliver on citizens' priorities and sustain our socio-economic model and values

The Commission proposes a budget of € 100 billion for Horizon

Europe.

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Horizon Europe: Preliminary structure

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Lessons Learned Key Noveltiesfrom Horizon 2020 Interim Evaluation in Horizon Europe

Extended association

possibilities

Create more impact through

mission-orientation and

citizens' involvement

Support breakthrough

innovation

Strengthen international

cooperation

Reinforce openness

Rationalise the funding

landscape

European Innovation

Council

R&I Missions

New approach to

Partnerships

Open science policy

Spreading ExcellenceEncourage participation

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Steps towards the first Horizon Europe work

programme

Early involvement and exchanges with Member States,

consultation with stakeholders and the public at large

Establishment of Mission Boards

Drafting of first Horizon Europe Work Programme on the

basis of the Strategic Plan

Co-creation at Research & Innovation Days 24 –26 September.

Extensive exchanges with the new European Parliament.

Establishment of new Commission - envisaged endorsement of

Strategic Plan

Start of Horizon Europe2021

Summer

2019

Autumn-

winter

2019/2020

2020

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