Biodiversa, restoration of ecosystem function: planned international call

The European Partnership Biodiversa+ plans a call for proposals of international projects “Restoration of ecosystem function, integrity, and connectivity”. Details about the call should be published in late spring 2025, call announcement is planned in September 2025, deadline in November 2025.

Participation of Czech entities should be funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TA CR) in collaboration with the Ministry of the Environment.

If you plan to participate in a project proposal, please, contact well in advance, 1 month before the deadline at the latest, the Project Management Department (Martina Holíková, martina.holikova@natur.cuni.cz), so that all the administrative requirements of the application can be prepared in time.

If you consider coordinating a project, please contact us as soon as possible, ca. 3 months before the deadline at the very latest.

• Upcoming calls on Biodiversa+ website.
• Database on previously funded Biodiversa projects – objectives, activities, consortia composition, etc.
• TA CR webpage about this programme: in English (not always up to date), in Czech.

This call should be embedded in Biodiversa+ Flagship Programme “Supporting biodiversity and ecosystem protection across land and sea”, which in 2025 will be updated to include the topic of biodiversity restoration.

Project consortium usually must consist of at least 3 partners from 3 different countries participating in the call, out of that at least 2 must be EU member states or Horizon Europe associated countries – usual consortia size is ca. 6–10 partners from 5–8 countries.
Each partner must fulfil the eligibility criteria of their national funding body.

Countries participating in the previous call: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Brazil, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal (Azores), Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Türkiye.

Funding of participation of Czech entities is usually linked to the TA CR programme Sigma (Sub-objective 4 – International collaboration), which means that only applied research is supported, Czech applicants can participate only in projects with results applicable in Czechia, and the maximal funding rate for the Czech part of a project is 80 %.

News published by Ludmila Součková on 26. 11. 2024.

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