The date of the call is preliminary and may be revised. The call description will continue to be revised and made more precis until the call opens for applications.
The EU partnership Biodiversa+ supports research on biodiversity with impacts for policy and society. The call Transformative Change and Biodiversity, made within the partnership, focuses on the importance of transformative change in reversing biodiversity loss.
Many current strategies and measures aimed at mitigating the problems linked to biodiversity have proven to be ineffective or even counterproductive, resulting in further environmental damage or worsening socio-economic disparities, which are themselves a key driver of biodiversity loss. There is a growing recognition of the need for rapid and coordinated transformative change that takes into account the environmental, social, economic, political and health dimensions of sustainability. System perspectives that integrate these dimensions as well as knowledge from different research fields and societal actors are important for understanding the challenges and contributing to measures.
The call welcomes researchers who are active in the countries within and outside the EU that are represented in the call. Applications must include participants from at least three such countries and seek funding from at least three different funders. The projects are expected to be interdisciplinary and involve different disciplines. The application must contain a description of how knowledge and perspectives from these disciplines are to be combined and contribute in the best way. The projects should also involve non-academic actors – such as private and public sector and civil society – in co-production of knowledge with relevance for policy and society. User needs must be considered when the project's goals are identified.
The call applies a two-step process. A concise application is submitted in Stage 1 in fall 2024. Stage 2 is for full applications, which are submitted in late spring 2025.
Tidplan:
- Opening: 10 September 2024
- Closing stage 1: November 2024
- Closing stage 2: April 2025
- Decision: Early fall 2025
Information meeting
A digital information meeting is arranged by Biodiversa plus on September 24, 13.00-15.00 CEST.
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