Open call with SSH aspects on Biodiversity and Transformative Change

Deadline:

Deadline for pre-proposals submission: 8 November 2024, 15:00 CET 
Deadline for full-proposals submission: 11 April 2025, 15:00 CEST 

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Short Call Abstract:

The call aims to fund transnational, inter- and transdisciplinary, and cross-sectoral research projects that will generate knowledge to help to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystems, and the benefits these may provide to people, through transformative change to mitigate and reverse biodiversity threats. 

Proposals should: 

• help understand trade-offs and cross-linkages between the worldwide crises of biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution;

• identify, analyse, and comprehend transformation processes that may safeguard biodiversity by mitigating its threats and halt – even reverse – its decline, as well as the benefits it may provide to people

To meet the transformative goals of this call, projects are expected to be interdisciplinary. Research teams should therefore span all disciplines of relevance for their project, be it from natural, social, and technical sciences, humanities and/or arts. Proposals should demonstrate how they will ensure the equitable and appropriate combination and inclusion of relevant academic disciplines, collaboratively integrating their approaches and skills. 

This call does not define sub-themes but is an opportunity for the best bottom-up proposals in the emerging research field of transformative change and biodiversity research. A prerequisite for being funded under this call is that the proposal demonstrates its potential to generate knowledge of high relevance to science and society. 

For further and specific information, see call text .

SSH aspects:

Political science, Sociology, Economics, Law, Anthropology, Psychology, Ethics

Specific participation requirements:

Proposals must comply with national/regional funding rules of each partner's funding organisation. 


Countries

Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal – Azores, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Türkiye.