Thirty Funding Agencies from all over Europe and abroad are pleased to announce a joint transnational call for research and innovation projects on “Aquatic Ecosystem Services”
Brazil is the only country from Latin America participating in this call.
The joint transnational call was launched in the framework of the European partnership Water4All and will support 3-year research and innovation projects to improve water security in the long term
In line with the strategic objectives of Water4All, the results should contribute to the implementation of evidence-based, global, EU and national water management policies and strategies, including the Green Deal, the Water Framework Directive (WFD), Just Transition and the Water Action Agenda for UN Sustainable Development Goals. Proposals should show cognisance of appropriate legislation and policy frameworks at national and international levels that are meant to alleviate global change impacts on aquatic ecosystem services.
Call Topics:
The general theme of the Water4All 2023 Joint Transnational Call is “Ecosystem Services”, with aquatic ecosystems as the focus, including inland surface water, groundwater, transitional and coastal water, and having water security on top of the objectives.
Research and innovation proposals submitted under the Water4All 2023 Joint Transnational Call are required to address at least one of the following topics:
- Topic 1. Mapping, monitoring, and assessment for a better understanding of ecosystem services in a context of changes, from local to global change.
- Topic 2. Understanding and predicting multiple pressures (including anthropogenic pressures) - impact – response relationships in ecosystem services through advanced methods and techniques.
- Topic 3. New tools and solutions for a better integration of ecosystem services into the management of water resources.
Applications are to be submitted by the coordinator. Each consortium participant is funded by the Funding Partner Organisation from their country/region participating in the 2023 Joint Transnational Call. Participants are therefore subject to eligibility criteria of their national/regional Funding Partner Organisation.
The funding organisations that have agreed to participate in the Water4All joint transnational call 2023 can be found here.
Brazilian participation
In Brazil, approved projects will receive funding from the State Research Support Foundations (FAPs) participating in the call (see list below). Projects resident in states whose FAPs are not participating in the call may receive funding from the CNPq. More info.
Brazilian State agencies participating:
- Fundação Araucária (Paraná);
- FACEPE (Pernambuco);
- FAPDF (Distrito Federal);
- FAPEAL (Alagoas);
- FAPEAM (Amazonas);
- FAPEAP (Amapá);
- FAPEG (Goiás);
- FAPEMA (Maranhão);
- FAPEMIG (Minas Gerais);
- FAPEPI (Piauí);
- FAPERGS (Rio Grande do Sul);
- FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro);
- FAPES (Espírito Santo);
- FAPESB (Bahia);
- FAPESC (Santa Catarina);
- FAPESP (São Paulo);
- FAPESPA (Pará);
- FAPESQ (Paraíba);
- FAPT (Tocantins);
- FUNCAP (Ceará);
- FUNDECT (Mato Grosso do Sul);
- FAPERO (Rondônia).
Eligibility
Brazilian applicants should consult the specific rules of eligibility and modalities of participation via FAPs or via CNPq with the institutions' Points of Contact. See the contacts and budgets that will be made available by the Brazilian institutions on the Water4All website.
More information (Brazil)
General and technical questions about the call can be clarified with CONFAP's National Contact Point: Elisa Natola (elisa.confap@gmail.com).
Call publication and tentative timeline:
- Call opening: 12 September 2023
- Submission deadline of pre-proposals: 13 November 2023, 15:00 CET
- Selection of pre-proposals: End of February 2024
- Submission deadline of full proposals: 29 April 2024, 15:00 CEST
- Selection of funded proposals: September 2024
- Projects start: End 2024 / beginning 2025
- Kick off meeting of the funded projects: Spring 2025
Interested in the call, do not miss the Water4All 2023 International webinar on 5 October 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.