Cluster 6: Innovative governance, environmental observations and digital solutions in support of the Green Deal (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01), 28 calls open

Transformative changes such as the ones required within the Green Deal are dynamic processes that require appropriate governance. At the same time, to ensure coordination and for collaborative decision-making, governance requires multiple channels and networks that provide readily available data and information coming from different sources.
R&I activities under this destination aim at both: experimenting with new ways to govern the transition process and modernising the governance, in particular by making information and knowledge available and accessible. R&I for governance to support the Green Deal shall provide insights into institutional barriers such as lock-ins, path dependency, political and cultural inertia power imbalances and regulatory inconsistencies or weaknesses.
Innovative governance supporting the Green Deal objectives needs to recognise, cope with and promote resilience in the face of on-going shocks and disruptions both globally and across Europe, whether these be climatic, ecological, economic, social, geo-political or related to health. Critical risk assessment and reduction strategies need to be incorporated, including the diversification of infrastructures, resources and knowledge through more self-sufficiency and autonomy.
Taking advantage of the use, uptake, deployment and exploitation of environmental observations[[The capacity to observe the environment, including space-based, in-situ-based (air, sea, land) observation, and citizen observations]] as well as digital solutions, assessed through the "do not harm" principle of the Green Deal, is key for innovative governance models and a more science-based policy design, implementation and monitoring. To maximise impacts of R&I on the ground and spark behavioural and socio-economic change, the knowledge and innovation produced throughout the whole cluster should be widely disseminated to key stakeholders of the relevant sectors of the cluster. In particular, the Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) needs to be reinforced to accelerate the required transformative changes.

Under this destination the EU has published 28 topics which are open for admission:
Innovating with governance models and supporting policies
1. Mobilising the network of national contact points in Cluster 6 (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-01)
2. Furthering food systems science and federating researchers across the European Research Area (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-02)
3. Preparatory action for the Horizon Europe Food System Partnership (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-03)
4. Strengthening bioeconomy innovation and deployment across sectors and all governance levels (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-04)
5. Fostering strategic advice and synergies between national and EU research and innovation agendas, including SCAR foresight (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-05)
6. Environmental and social cross-compliance of marine policies (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-06)
7. Regional governance models in the bioeconomy (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-07)
8. Improving understanding of and engagement in bio-based systems with training and skills development (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-08)
9. Revitalisation of European local communities with innovative bio-based business models and social innovation (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-09)
10. Raising awareness of circular and sustainable bioeconomy in support of Member States to develop bioeconomy strategies and/or action plans (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-10)
11. Education on the bioeconomy including bio-based sectors for young people in primary and secondary education in Europe (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-11)
12. EU agriculture within a safe and just operating space and planetary boundaries (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-12)
13. Modelling land use and land management in the context of climate change (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-13)
Deploying and adding value to Encironmental Observations
14. User-oriented solutions building on environmental observation to monitor critical ecosystems and biodiversity loss and vulnerability in the European Union (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-14)
15. Preparing for pre-commercial procurement (PCP) for end-user services based on environmental observation in the area of climate change adaptation and mitigation (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-15)
16. Tools to support the uptake and accessibility/exploitability of environmental observation information at European and global level (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-16)
17. Common European Green Deal data space to provide more accessible and exploitable environmental observation data in support of the European Green Deal priority actions (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-17)
Digital and data technologies as key enablers
18. Mapping and improving the data economy for food systems (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-18)
19. Development of the markets and use of digital technologies and infrastructure in agriculture - state of play and foresight: digital and data technologies for the agricultural sector in a fast changing regulatory, trade and technical environment (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-19)
20. Data economy in the field of agriculture - effects of data sharing and big data (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-20)
21. Potential of drones as multi-purpose vehicle - risks and added values (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-21)
22. Assessing the impacts of digital technologies in agriculture - cost, benefits and potential for sustainability gains (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-22)
23. Broaden EIP Operational Group outcomes across borders by means of thematic networks, compiling and sharing knowledge ready for practice (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-23)
24. Supporting knowledge exchange between all AKIS actors in the Member States by means of an EU-wide interactive knowledge reservoir (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-24)
25. Improving national AKIS organisation in a co-creative process across the EU (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-25)
26. Deepening the functioning of innovation support (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-26)
27. Developing EU advisory networks on consumer-producer chains (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-27)
28. Thematic networks to compile and share knowledge ready for practice (HORIZON-CL6-2021-GOVERNANCE-01-28)

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