Etat & Origine: Partners’ calls

The research and innovation service within the ministry of ecological transition in charge of the national programme ITTECOP, and in partnership with the ADEME, will launch, in April 2024, a new call for proposals under the theme: “Impacts of human infrastructures (transport and renewable energy production) on biodiversity”.

The project seeks the analysis of sets of already acquired data which can be gathered and constructed (from dispersed data sets, data available in the literature, etc.) during the project with the following objectives, among others:  

• Assessing the impacts of these infrastructures on some facets of biodiversity (genetic, specific, functional or ecosystemic), all taxonomic groups being potentially concerned; 
• Determining how the design of the infrastructures can affect biodiversity based on existing biodiversity, management of natural environments and wildlife, and surrounding territories; 
• Evaluating how the management of infrastructures and their “naturalized” part can influence these impacts in interaction with the surrounding natural environments; 
• Identifying and analyzing the economic, socio-technical and political factors that contribute to the deployment of these infrastructures and the degree to which they take biodiversity into account.

A project has been funded for a duration of 3 years under this call, namely the ESEB project – Impacts of European solar energy infrastructure on biodiversity: integrating existing knowledge to enable Nature Positive management and financial investments – coordinated by Alona ARMSTRONG (University of Lancaster, UK) and Armin BISCHOFF (University of Avignon, FRA).

Find out more about ITTECOP

The upcoming Biodiversa+ call for transnational projects “Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society” will be officially launched on September 8^th, 2022.

It will cover the 3 non-mutually exclusive research themes:

• Innovation and harmonisation of methods and tools for collection and management of biodiversity monitoring data
• Addressing knowledge gaps on biodiversity status, dynamics, and trends to reverse biodiversity loss
• Making use of available biodiversity monitoring data

A 2-steps application procedure will include the online submission (in English) of pre-proposals early November 2022 and full proposals early April 2023 for evaluation by an independent committee based on the following criteria:

• Step 1: fit to the scope of the Call, novelty of the research, and impact
• Step 2: scientific excellence, quality and efficiency of the implementation and impact (including expected policy/societal impacts and stakeholder engagement).

Research consortia will have to include teams from a minimum of 3 countries participating in the Call, including 2 from EU Member States or EU Associated Countries.

Detailed instructions regarding the submission procedure, the eligibility and evaluation criteria etc. will be published at the official launch of the Call early September 2022.