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Horizon Europe is the EU’s key funding programme for research and innovation.
This call aims to better integrate the Mission on adaptation to climate change into the regional socio-economic policies and the just transition.
In support of the European Green Deal, the Adaptation Strategy and the Mission on Adaptation to climate change successful proposals will contribute to a resilient and just transformation.
Projects results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
According to the IPCC, adaptation should be transformative, changing the fundamental attributes of a social-ecological system in anticipation of climate change and its impacts. However, the portfolios of climate change adaptation policies remain embryonic and fragmented today: instruments focus mostly on building adaptive capacity through the creation of locally relevant databases and monitoring systems, awareness raising and capacity building actions, education and training[1]. For example, the increasing attention to ‘just resilience’ at strategic level is not matched with corresponding actions in the field and ‘issues of equity and social justice are still rarely considered in local-level adaptation planning and actions”; ‘many climate adaptation measures focus on technological interventions, without accounting for the social characteristics of cities, and thus fail to address the unequal burdens of climate impacts’.
Local adaptation to climate change measures should never be taken in isolation. They are part of the socio-economic fabric of the region and its bio-geographic constraints (for example, its position in a certain river basin, along a certain coastline or in mountainous areas).
This topic aims to better integrate the Mission on adaptation to climate change into the regional socio-economic policies and the just transition. This should be also coupled with raising the awareness of local authorities for co-creation opportunities between adaptation and other investments.
Proposals should address all of the following aspects:
This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities.
Proposals should connect to other relevant projects funded by Horizon- Europe, in particular on just climate resilience funded by the topic HORIZON-MISS-2024-CLIMA-01-08: Demonstration of approaches by regions and local authorities focused on increasing climate resilience of the most vulnerable social groups (just climate resilience)
Additionally, Proposals should include a mechanism and the resources to establish operational links and collaboration with Mission Implementation Platform and the Climate-ADAPT platform[2] as well as with other relevant initiatives such as the New European Bauhaus the Cohesion policy, and Regional smart specialisation strategies.
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the following countries:
See the full list in the General Annexes.
Unless otherwise provided for in the specific call conditions, only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate in actions provided that the consortium includes, as beneficiaries, three legal entities independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
Total indicative budget is EUR 8 000 000.
The Commission estimates that an EU contribution of around EUR 4.00 million would allow these outcomes to be addressed appropriately.
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