• BC-CAS
  Vera Jezkova
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• CEH
  Jo Chamberlain
  E-mail
• CESAM
  Ana Lilebo
  E-mail
• CREAF
  Olga Roig
  E-mail

• DCE
  Jesper Fredshavn
  E-mail
• DELBAERE CONSULTING
  Ben Delbaere
  E-mail
• EMU
  Mart Kulvik
  E-mail
• ERCE-UNESCO
  Kinga Krauze
  E-mail

• ESSRG
  Gyorgyi Bela
  E-mail
• IGB
  Sonja Jaehnig
  E-mail
• ILEE
  Carolin Mayer
  E-mail
• INBO
  Ann Milbau
  E-mail

• IRSTEA
  Louise Vaast
  E-mail
• ISOE
  Marion Mehring
  E-mail
  Diana Hummel
  E-mail
• JHI
  Alison Hester
  E-mail
  Richard Allan
  E-mail
• MTA OK
  Miklos Kertesz
  E-mail

• NINA
  Jiska van Dijk
  E-mail
• PBL
  Onno Knol
  E-mail
• SAVBA
  Robert Kanka
  E-mail
• SLU
  Lars-Eric Lindell
  E-mail

• SYKE
  Leena Kopperoinen
  E-mail
• UFZ
  Marie Vandewalle
  E-mail
• UNIBUC
  Magda Bucur
  E-mail
  Mihai Adamescu
  E-mail
• WENR
  Lawrence Jones-Walters
  E-mail
  Theo van der Sluis
  E-mail

Partners interested

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Partner acronym / Contact name(s) + email(s) / Your institute's relevant expertise and/or how you could contribute

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• HERA / Frodo Baggins fbaggins@... / Expertise in earth observation and GIS
• WRI / Gandalf the Grey GG@... / Vegetation surveys; data management; project coordination

Action A will support collaborative research projects, gathering different research teams and generating new primary data.

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• The James Hutton Institute:
  Richard Allan ([email protected]),
  Alison Hester ([email protected])
• Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS

Action B will support research synthesis projects, gathering individuals forming a working group who perform research and answer research questions using existing data sets.

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• The James Hutton Institute:
  Richard Allan ([email protected])
  Alison Hester ([email protected])
• Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS
Robert Kanka
([email protected])

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This action is open to researchers of any nationality who intend to conduct their research activity in any EU Member State or Associated Country.

The ERC's frontier research grants operate on a 'bottom-up' basis without predetermined priorities. Applications can be made in any field of research with particular emphasis on the frontiers of science, scholarship and engineering. In particular, proposals of an interdisciplinary nature, which cross the boundaries between different fields of research, pioneering proposals addressing new and emerging fields of research or proposals introducing unconventional, innovative approaches and scientific inventions are encouraged.

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EIT-Urban-Mobility: Urban mobility: a cross-cutting challenge

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Greenhouse gas monitoring and reporting by authorities.

There are no specific work areas for this policy area under the 2018 call for proposals.

Projects under the Climate Change Mitigation Priority Area should contribute to the transition towards a low emission economy and to reaching the EU target of at least 40% greenhouse gas emission reduction for 2030 compared with 1990 levels, as well as renewable energy and energy efficiency targets of at least 27% compared with the business-as-usual scenario.

Projects related to one or more policy areas n° 1, 2 or 3 should in particular address the specific EU work areas listed below: Land use; Sustainable Forest Management and cascading use of solid biomass

Urban adaptation and land use planning which limits the impacts of climate change:

Developing and implementing adaptation initiatives ideally following an approach integrating mitigation through the Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy, including establishing cooperation between local, regional and/or national authorities where relevant; developing and deploying innovative adaptation solutions in urban areas, including in the water, energy and construction sectors and solutions addressing health and wellbeing; implementing public-private partnerships to mobilise private sector involvement and finance of adaptation, including through integrating insurance solutions.

Resilience of infrastructure, including application of blue-green infrastructure and ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation.

There are no specific work areas for policy area number 2. under 2018 call.

Sustainable management of water in drought-prone areas, flood and coastal management:

cross-border management of floods; trans-boundary coastal management, with emphasis on densely populated deltas and coastal cities.

Resilience of agricultural, forestry and tourism sectors, including in island and mountain areas:

Adaptation in forest management to reduce forest fire risk

Support to the EU's Outermost Regions: preparedness for extreme weather events, notably in coastal areas:

Development and implementation of risk and vulnerability assessments and adaptation strategies; early warning systems for extreme events; coastal management to adapt to extreme weather events through ecosystem-based approaches to adaptation (e.g. mangroves, sand dune area management, wetland management etc.); implementation of innovative approaches to ensure resilience of energy infrastructure from extreme weather events, specially renewable energy infrastructure.

Development and implementation of national 2030 climate and energy strategies and/or mid-century strategies.

There are no specific work areas for this policy area under the 2018 call.

Incentivise behavioural change, mainstream emission reduction and resource efficiency actions in sectors:

-Encouraging climate actions in communities where the climate change mitigation potential in the land use sector is particularly relevant (whether in terms of decreasing emissions or maintaining and enhancing carbon storage potential in soils), and improving the understanding of the economic and social benefits of such actions.

-Enhancing consumers' empowerment to benefit from real-world fuel consumption savings in cars and vans and allow consumers to make informed purchase decisions for cars with low pollutant emissions.

-Driving the integration of climate mitigation and adaptation considerations in the EU financial system.

Assessment by authorities of the functioning of the EU ETS:

Under the 2018 call, proposals focusing on the work area of building broader and stronger international networks of experts and ensure wider dissemination of knowledge on building political support for carbon markets and further technical aspects, such as emissions inventories, projections, monitoring and evaluation of policies and measures, are particularly needed.

Building capacities, raising awareness among end-users and the equipment distribution chain of fluorinated gases:

Under the 2018 call, proposals focusing on the work area of improving the uptake of climatefriendly technologies and working on the development of additional technical specifications for the installation and operation of flammable alternatives, in particular hydrocarbons, in relevant standards for refrigeration and air conditioning technologies, in support of the ongoing standard setting process, are particularly requested.

Climate policy monitoring, assessment and ex-post evaluation:

A key challenge for the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) sector is the collection or estimation of robust carbon data from forests, wetlands and soils in order to enable transparent reporting and accounting. It is therefore important to test and implement solutions building or strengthening the capacity to: use spatially-explicit geographical data, exploiting existing EU and national data collection systems (such as LUCAS, LPIS/IACS and Copernicus), for the identification and tracking of land use and land use change; monitor and estimate carbon stocks and fluxes in forests, wetlands and agricultural land at local, regional and cross-regional level; monitor and communicate on the loss and degradations of carbon storage (such as grassland loss, degradation and restoration of former and existing wetlands and peatlands).

Best practices and awareness raising activities addressing adaptation needs:

Projects targeting the development and use of practicable and meaningful adaptation indicators and monitoring systems and the uptake of climate services in adaptation planning at local level ('downscaling of climate impacts'); Best practice and awareness raising projects focusing on understanding the economic and social impacts as well as costs and effectiveness of adaptation and implementing concrete actions to address such impacts and costs; Integration of climate change adaptation into the disaster risk management cycle: establishing coordination platforms and initiatives, best practice and awareness raising projects on integrating long term climate planning in disaster risk assessments, developing common indicators or using loss data as evidence base for policy-making

Concept Notes: 5 September 2018

Full Proposal: 14 March 2019

Concept Notes: 5 September 2018

Full Proposal: 14 March 2019

Concept Notes: 5 September 2018

Full Proposal: 14 March 2019

Concept Notes: 5 September 2018

Full Proposal: 14 March 2019

Concept Notes: 5 September 2018

Full Proposal: 14 March 2019

Concept Notes: 5 September 2018

Full Proposal: 14 March 2019

Concept Notes: 5 September 2018

Full Proposal: 14 March 2019

Horizon 2020 - Science With & For Society

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• UB/RCSES:
  Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])
  Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation.
  
  

• Delbaere Consulting, Ben Delbaere ([email protected])
  Expertise: science-policy-society interaction; stakeholder engagement; monitoring networks; communication; biodiversity; EU biodiversity-related policy

• Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS

Robert Kanka
([email protected])

Expertise: Research of landscape changes and land cover, land use change research and assessment of driving forces behind these  changes; Assessment of      ecosystems and ecosystem services; The  implementation of research activities in      long-term ecosystem research

• UB/RCSES:
  Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])
  Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation
  
  
• Delbaere Consulting, Ben Delbaere ([email protected])
  Expertise: science-policy-society interaction; stakeholder engagement; monitoring networks; communication; biodiversity; EU biodiversity-related policy

• Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS

Robert Kanka
([email protected])

Expertise: Research of landscape changes       and land  cover, land use change research       and assessment of driving forces behind           these  changes; Assessment of                         ecosystems and ecosystem services; The         implementation of research activities in             long-term ecosystem research.

UB/RCSES:
Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])

Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation

• Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS

Robert Kanka
([email protected])

Expertise: Research of landscape changes       and land  cover, land use change research       and assessment of driving forces behind           these  changes; Assessment of                         ecosystems and ecosystem services; The         implementation of research activities in             long-term ecosystem research.

UB/RCSES:
Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])

Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation

• The James Hutton Institute:
  Richard Allan ([email protected]),
  Alison Hester ([email protected])
  Expertise: spatial and temporal analyses (with strong long-term data across a range of different habitats) of climate change impacts on biodiversity, ecological processes and ES

• UB/RCSES:
  Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])
  Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation
  
  
• NINA
  Roel May ([email protected]) contact person.
  Expertise: Analysing time series data / Climate change impacts and adaptation / Environmental impact assessment (cumulative effects) / Life Cycle assessment / Landscape analyses
  

• IRSTEA
  Louise Vaast ([email protected]), contact person
  TETIS : Remote sensing data fusion, habitat modelling, Big Data, data mining, deep learning, socio-ecological systems, ecosystem services mapping – partners in South America & Africa
  RECOVER : Ecosystem condition, ecosystem services  assessment, landscape analysis, biodiversity
  LESSEM : Mountain Ecosystems and Societies Laboratory

• Delbaere Consulting
  Ben Delbaere ([email protected])
  Expertise: policy analysis; DPSIR model; ecological impacts; science-policy interaction; cross-sectoral engagement; EU biodiversity-related policy; biodiversity

• Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS

Robert Kanka
([email protected])

Expertise: Research of landscape changes and land  cover, land use change research and assessment of driving forces behind these  changes; Assessment of      ecosystems and ecosystem services; The  implementation of research activities in      long-term ecosystem research.

• UB/RCSES:
  Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])
  Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation
• NINA
  Roel May ([email protected])contact person.
  Expertise: Land-use mitigation (renewable energy, energy pricing, etc.).
• IRSTEA Louise Vaast ([email protected]), contact personLESSEM: Mountain Ecosystems and Societies LaboratoryETNA: nature-based solutions, mountains, snow
• Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS

Robert Kanka
([email protected])

Expertise: Research of landscape changes and land cover, land use change research and assessment of driving forces behind these  changes; Assessment of      ecosystems and ecosystem services; The  implementation of research activities in      long-term ecosystem research.

• UB/RCSES:
  Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])
  Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation
• NINA
  Roel May ([email protected]) contact person.
  Expertise: land-use mitigation (renewable energy, energy pricing, etc.)

UB/RCSES:
Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])

Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation

UB/RCSES:
Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])

Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation

UB/RCSES:
Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])

Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation

IRSTEA
Louise Vaast ([email protected]), contact person

Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS, Robert Kanka, ([email protected])

Expertise: Research of landscape changes and land cover, land use change research and assessment of driving forces behind these  changes; Assessment of      ecosystems and ecosystem services; The  implementation of research activities in      long-term ecosystem research

UB/RCSES:
Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])

Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation

• Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS

Robert Kanka
([email protected])

Expertise: Research of landscape changes and land cover, land use change research and assessment of driving forces behind these  changes; Assessment of      ecosystems and ecosystem services; The  implementation of research activities in      long-term ecosystem research

UB/RCSES:
Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])

Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation

• Institute of Landscape Ecology SAS

Robert Kanka
([email protected])

Expertise: Research of landscape changes and land cover, land use change research and assessment of driving forces behind these  changes; Assessment of      ecosystems and ecosystem services; The  implementation of research activities in      long-term ecosystem research

UB/RCSES:
Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])

Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation

UB/RCSES:
Mihai Adamescu ([email protected]), Magda Bucur ([email protected])

Expertise: i) dynamics of composition and structural configuration of ecosystems and landscapes under pressure of human and climatic drivers; ii) understanding and quantification of ecological processes; iii) identification and quantification of key ecosystem and landscape functions and services; iv) social analysis and valuation of biodiversity and ecosystem services; v) material and energy flow analysis in the nested socio-ecological systems; and vi) environmental policies analysis and scientific support for their implementation

Proposals should address one or more of the following sub-topics (A) to (C) and should clearly indicate to which one they refer.

A. [2019] ICT-enabled agri-food systems

B. [2019] Climate change and food systems

C. [2019] International veterinary vaccinology