Thirty-Four Funding Agencies from all over Europe and abroad are pleased to announce a joint transnational call for research and innovation projects on:
“Management of water resources: resilience, adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events and management tools”.
Brazil is the only country from Latin America participating in this call.
The joint transnational call will be launched in the framework of the European partnership Water4All and will support research and innovation projects aimed at delivering knowledge, models, approaches, tools and methodologies to better understand hydrological processes at different scale, in order to respond more efficiently to emerging water issues related to extreme events.
In line with the strategic objectives of Water4All, the results of the projects will contribute to the implementation of evidence-based, global, EU and national water management policies and strategies, within the frameworks of the Green Deal, the Water Framework Directive, Just Transition and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, governance playing a key role in water challenges, the 2022 Joint Transnational Call will seek for innovative governance models, and enhanced participation of stakeholders in water management issues related to extreme events.
Call Topics:
The call will focus on solutions for hydroclimatic extreme events, as described in the Water4All Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda Theme III “Water for the future: sustainable water management”, as well as address the cross-cutting Theme VII “Governance” and Theme V “Water Infrastructures”. Research & innovation proposals submitted under the Water4All 2022 Joint Transnational Call are required to address at least one of the following topics:
Topic 1. Resilience, adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events
- Addressing knowledge gaps in our understanding of the causes of water scarcity, drought events, seasonal variability in climate impacts to develop adaptation and mitigation measures, taking climate change into account.
- Developing and demonstrating innovative (or improved) societally acceptable adaptation and mitigation strategies to cope with hydro-climatic extreme events and their increase in length and duration. This includes floods and droughts, although is not limited to them, adopting a regional or a basin scale wide approach.
- Improving resilience and adaptation capacity of water infrastructure (e.g., industrial water facilities, urban networks, wastewater treatment facilities, stormwater management systems and rural systems) to hydroclimatic extreme events.
Topic 2. Tools for water management - in the context of hydroclimatic extreme events
- Developing tools (e.g., multi-risk approach, decision support tools, monetary/non- monetary costs valuation) to support the design and implementation of strategies for adaptation and mitigation to hydro-climatic extreme events, especially floods (including “flash-floods”), heat waves and droughts in a catchment to sea perspective.
- Generating new methodologies, tools and models for water resources assessment/modelling for water bodies in scarcely monitored /data scarce areas. A combination of physical and digital solutions is expected, and opportunities provided by citizen science should be seized.
- “Smartening the water system” and use of innovative digitalization, including improved/new sensors, models, communications and computing technologies.
Topic 3. Improved water governance in the context hydroclimatic extreme events and international contexts
- Undertaking an analysis and developing robust Governance models for the management of water resources in the context of extreme events, is critical increasing the decision-making capacity of institutions and involvement of citizens. This should include ways of improving coordination between water managers to increase our capacity to reduce vulnerability to extreme events, as well as effectively respond to them.
- Addressing and encouraging international cooperation in the field of water, including management of transboundary water resources and contribution to Water Diplomacy.
Please note that it is not compulsory to address all subtopics within a topic in the proposals.
Click here to read the Call Announcement.
The following funding organisations have agreed to participate in the Water4All joint transnational call 2022:
| Austria | Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung - FWF |
| Belgium | Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen - VLAIO |
Fonds Voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen – FWO | ||
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - F.R.S.-FNRS | ||
| Brazil | Brazilian National Council of State Funding Agencies – CONFAP |
Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq | ||
| Czech Republic | Technology Agency of the Czech Republic - TA CR |
| Denmark | Innovation Fund Denmark – IFD |
| Estonia | Sihtasutus Eesti Teadusagentuur – ETAg |
| France | Agence Nationale de la Recherche – ANR |
| Germany | Federal Ministry of Education and Research – BMBF |
| Hungary | Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal – NKFIH |
| Ireland | Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland – EPA |
| Israel | Ministry of Energy – MoE |
| Italy | Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca – MUR |
Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico – MISE | ||
| Latvia | Latvijas Zinatnes padome – LZP |
| Lithuania | Lietuvos mokslo taryba - LMT |
| Luxembourg | Luxembourg National Research Fund – FNR |
| Malta | Ministry for Environment, Energy and Enterprise – MEEE |
| Moldova | National Agency for Research and Development – NARD |
| Netherlands | Dutch Research Council - NWO |
| Norway | Research Council of Norway – RCN |
| Poland | Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju – NCBR |
| Portugal | Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - FCT |
| Romania | The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding – UEFISCDI |
| Slovakia | Slovak Academy of Sciences – SAS |
| South Africa | Water Research Commission - WRC |
| Spain | Agencia Estatal de Investigación – AEI |
Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology - CDTI | ||
| Sweden | The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning – FORMAS |
| Switzerland | Swiss National Science Foundation – SNSF |
| Turkey | Turkiye Bilimsel Ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu – TUBITAK |
| United Kingdom | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - EPSRC UKRI |
Call publication and tentative timeline:
- Call Opening: 1st September 2022
- Submission Deadline of Pre-proposal: 31st October 2022 at 15:00 (CET)
- Selection of Pre-proposals: 10th January 2023
- Submission Deadline of Full-proposals: 20th March 2023
- Selection of Proposals: 6th June 2023
- Projects kick off / Start: Autumn 2023
About Water4All Partnership
The Water4All partnership is starting in 2022 under the auspices of the European Union Horizon Europe programme for research and innovation, to concentrate research and innovation on water in Europe and beyond. Water4All’s Vision is to “boost the systemic transformations and changes across the entire research – water innovation pipeline, fostering the matchmaking between problem owners and solution providers for ensuring water security for all in the long term”.
To strengthen the water Research Development and Innovation (RD&I) collaboration, to produce and to share top class water-related knowledge and data, Water4All will launch a series of annual Joint Transnational Calls (JTCs). The topics for the calls will be drawn from the water challenges identified in the Water4All Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and will pool national financial resources through the participation of ministries, authorities and funding organisations.
To know more about the partnership click here.