Cluster 6: Biodiversity abd ecosystem services (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01), 21 calls open

The EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 is a cornerstone of the European Green Deal that will put Europe's biodiversity on the path to recovery by 2030, for the benefit of people, the climate and the planet. It will also prepare the EU to take a leading role in the upcoming international negotiations on a new global framework to halt biodiversity loss. With the Green Deal's 'do no significant harm' vision, all EU policies will become more biodiversity-friendly, focusing more on the sustainable use of ecosystems, supporting the recovery in a post-pandemic world[[COM/2020/380 EU biodiversity strategy for 2030: Bringing nature back into our lives]]. This policy vision is fully supported in the strategic plan of Horizon Europe for 2021-2024 in its first key strategic orientation 'Protecting and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity and managing sustainably natural resources on land and at sea, and achieving climate neutrality and adaptation'. Consequently, Destination 'Biodiversity and ecosystem services' intends to achieve the following expected impact from Cluster 6 'Biodiversity is back on a path to recovery, and ecosystems and their services are preserved and sustainably restored on land, inland water and at sea through improved knowledge and innovation'. All actions funded under this destination must therefore help to deliver this main impact.

Research and innovation is key to delivering results that will have an important impact on biodiversity, food, health, water and climate, which are all interconnected, and to achieving the goal of healthy and resilient ecosystems by 2030. It will also enable transformational change engaging European society and economy and their global impacts, making decisions more biodiversity-friendly. R&I will support policy targets, develop nature-based solutions[[Nature-based solutions are "inspired and supported by nature, which are cost-effective, simultaneously provide environmental, social and economic benefits and help build resilience. Such solutions bring more, and more diverse, nature and natural features and processes into cities, landscapes and seascapes, through locally adapted, resource-efficient and systemic interventions. Hence, nature-based solutions must benefit biodiversity and support the delivery of a range of ecosystem services."]] and holistic approaches to address the main causes of biodiversity loss, particularly in connection to production systems, bringing all sectors together to be integrated in ecosystem-based management. Investments in R&I will help to protect and restore the integrity of terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems, currently under multiple pressures, and protect and restore their capacity to deliver a wide range of essential services. Under Horizon Europe, a long-term strategic research agenda for biodiversity will also be developed.

Under this destination the EU has published 21 topics which are open for submission.
Understanding biodiversity decline
1. European participation in global biodiversity genomics endeavours aimed at identifying all biodiversity on Earth (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-01)
2. Data and technologies for the inventory, fast identification and monitoring of endangered wildlife and other species groups (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-02)
3. Understanding and valuing coastal and marine biodiversity and ecosystems services (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-03)
4. Assess and predict integrated impacts of cumulative direct and indirect stressors on coastal and marine biodiversity, ecosystems and their services (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-04)
5. The economics of nature-based solutions: cost-benefit analysis, market development and funding (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-05)
Valuing and restoring biodiversity and ecosystem services
6. Nature-based solutions, prevention and reduction of risks and the insurance sector (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-06)
7. Ecosystems and their services for an evidence-based policy and decision-making (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-07)
8. Supporting the development of a coherent and resilient Trans-European Nature Network (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-08)
9. Assessing and consolidating recent scientific advances on freshwater ecosystem restoration (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-09)
10. Demonstration of measures and management for coastal and marine ecosystems restoration and resilience in simplified socio-ecological systems (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-10)
11. What else is out there? Exploring the connection between biodiversity, ecosystems services, pandemics and epidemic risk (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-11)
12. Improved science based maritime spatial planning and identification of marine protected areas (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-12)
Managing biodiversity in primary production
13. Breeding for resilience: focus on root-based traits (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-13)
14. Fostering organic crop breeding (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-14)
Enabling transformative change on biodiversity
15. Quantify impacts of the trade in raw and processed biomass on ecosystems, for offering new leverage points for biodiversity conservation, along supply chains, to reduce leakage effects (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-15)
16. Biodiversity, water, food, energy, transport, climate and health nexus in the context of transformative change (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-16)
17. Policy mixes, governance (including financing) and decision-making tools for transformative action on biodiversity (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-17)
18. Understanding the impacts of and the opportunities offered by digital transformation, new emerging technologies and social innovation on biodiversity (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-18)
Interconnecting biodiversity research and supporting policies
19. A mechanism for science to inform implementation, monitoring, review and ratcheting up of the new EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 ('Science Service') (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-19)
20. Support to processes triggered by IPBES and IPCC (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-20)
21. Impact and dependence of business on biodiversity (HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-21)

Further Information:
https://www.euhochschulnetz-sachsen-anhalt.de/Ausschreibungen.html

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