Maintaining and restoring pollinators and pollination services in European agricultural landscapes

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Feb 8, 2023 8:03:50 PM

CALL UPDATE: FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS

EVALUATION results

Published: 16 June 2021

Deadline: 01 September 2022

Available budget:

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

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May 25, 2022 3:41:32 PM

CALL UPDATE: GENERALISED FEEDBACK AFTER STAGE 1

GENERALISED FEEDBACK for successful applicants after STAGE 1

In order to best ensure equal treatment, successful stage 1 applicants do not receive the evaluation summary reports (ESRs) for their proposals, but this generalised feedback with information and tips for preparing the full proposal.

Information & tips

Main shortcomings found in the stage 1 evaluation:

• Some proposals lacked clarity on how performance indicators proposed would be achieved.
• For some proposals, the expected impacts were not explicitly linked to the expected outcomes as defined by the call text.

In your stage 2 proposal, you have a chance to address or clarify these issues.

Please bear in mind that your full proposal will now be evaluated more in-depth and possibly by a new group of outside experts.

Please make sure that your full proposal is consistent with your short outline proposal. It may NOT differ substantially. The project must stay the same.

May 20, 2022 11:24:36 AM

CALL UPDATE: FLASH EVALUATION RESULTS 

EVALUATION results

Published: 06 October 2021

Deadline: 15 February 2022

Available budget:

• HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-01-two-stage : €20.000.000,00

In accordance with General Annex F of the Work Programme, the evaluation of the first-stage proposals was made looking only at the criteria ‘Excellence’ and ‘Impact’. The threshold for both criteria was 4. The overall threshold (applying to the sum of the two individual scores) was set for each topic/type of action with separate call-budget-split at a level that allowed the total requested budget of proposals admitted to stage 2 be as close as possible to 3 times the available budget (and not below 2.5 times the budget):

• HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-01-two-stage (European partnership rescuing biodiversity to safeguard life on Earth): 8.5 points

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

We recently informed the applicants about the evaluation results for their proposals.

For questions, please contact the Research Enquiry Service.

https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-innovation_en

Feb 25, 2022 9:42:10 AM

PROPOSAL NUMBERS

Call HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-two-stage_stage1 has closed on the 15th of February 2022.

21 proposals have been submitted.                                                                                                   

The breakdown per topic is:

• HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-01-two-stage: 4

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in May 2022.

Oct 28, 2021 12:00:06 AM

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-01-two-stage(HORIZON-IA)

Maintaining and restoring pollinators and pollination services in European agricultural landscapes

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-01-two-stage

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: Biodiversity and ecosystem services (HORIZON-CL6-2022-BIODIV-02-two-stage)
Type of action: HORIZON-IA HORIZON Innovation Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: two-stage
Planned opening date: 28 October 2021
Deadline dates:
15 February 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time
01 September 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time

Topic description

ExpectedOutcome:

Responding to the EU Green Deal, the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030 and the farm to fork Strategy, a successful proposal will restore pollinator-habitats, support the development of pollinator-friendly policies, business models and market conditions, by helping to establish sustainable, productive, climate-neutral and resilient farming systems by minimising pressure on ecosystems, delivering a wide range of ecosystem services, improving public health and generating fair economic returns for farmers. Projects should address all of the following outcomes:

• Agricultural landscapes that are dominated by intensively managed crops and grasslands, are restored[1] through co-designed (with farmers and other land managers, local communities, agricultural advisory services, landscape planners, the nature conservation sector etc.) large-scale, experimental pollinator-friendly practices and services and through social innovation processes, such as new innovative approaches to enhance community participatory planning and innovative business models.
• Management, restoration, conservation and connectivity of wild pollinator habitats follow scientific and policy recommendations, which have been tested in the projects on their applicability. The range of recommendations in question is set in the Assessment Report on Pollinators, Pollination and Food Production of IPBES[2] and the updated Plan of Action of the international initiative on the conservation and sustainable use of pollinators[3].
• Systemic approaches provide an effective enabling environment for stakeholder actions. They demonstrate that coherent and comprehensive policies for the conservation and sustainable use of pollinators at various governance levels can be demonstrated at least at landscape scale. , and contributing to foster sustainable agricultural practices while ensuring farming viability and profitability, for different agricultural sectors.
• Improved coordination in governance, as well as enhanced data accessibility, financing and maintenance agreements for actions beneficial for pollinators are achieved.
• Adaptive management of measures for the conservation and sustainable use of pollinators is informed by continuous monitoring and assessing of the outcomes, including by using results-based payment schemes.

Scope:

This topic aims at maintaining and restoring species-rich pollinator communities and their services in agricultural landscapes dominated by intensive land use, and facilitating the uptake of pollinator-friendly practices at wider scale.

The direct and indirect drivers of pollinator decline are cross-cutting in nature .This calls for the need to ensure policy coherence and to integrate pollinator and pollination considerations not only in policy measures that support the transition towards more sustainable agricultural practices, but also across sectors (for example forestry, consumption and health) and at different spatial scales (farm, landscape, ecosystem).

Despite efforts, many of the main direct drivers of pollinator loss have remained largely unchanged over the years: habitat fragmentation and land use change, the widespread use of synthetic chemicals in agriculture and in other sectors, invasive alien species, and pathogens (in case of managed pollinators). In particular, great attention has been focused on drivers linked to intensive agricultural practices, such as monoculture, and the use of synthetic fertilisers and pesticides that can have direct and indirect effects on pollinators. In addition, the increasing negative impact on pollinator habitats of other direct drivers, such as climate change, have exacerbated the problem.