A technology & data management agency for biodiversity is looking for partners to work on HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-05

Natural Solutions is a technology & data management agency for biodiversity. Since 2008, our Open-Source & Open-Data solutions have been rewarded multiple times for their innovative character & praised by our clients such as WWF, Birdlife or IUCN. We leverage advanced technological capabilities in AI, GIS, data analytics, citizen science & match them with our skills in Forest & Marine Ecology to address environmental challenges. 

Our Blue Future – Co-designing a future vision of a restored ocean and water system in the EU by 2030 and 2050

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-05

Type of grant: Call for proposals

Topic description

ExpectedOutcome:

To support the implementation of the European Green Deal, the Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters and the related EU climate, biodiversity and pollution targets, project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Increased confidence in and support for the transitions required by the European Green Deal, by co-designing possible science-based transition scenarios for reaching the Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters objectives and related EU climate, biodiversity and pollution targets, including environmental, social, economic and political considerations.

• Support progress in restoring our ocean and waters, in adapting to climate change, reversing biodiversity loss and pollution, by co-designing inspiring narratives that stimulate effective action by policy-makers, citizens and stakeholders, and by identifying the pathways that are necessary to realise them.

• Increased awareness of decision-makers, stakeholders and citizens, including students, through structured science-policy interfaces, in relation to the urgency of the climate, biodiversity and pollution crises and the central role of restoring the entire water system to address these crises.

• National, regional and local decision-makers in planning decisions are taking measures to protect and restore their ocean, coastal and water spaces and ecosystems.

Scope:

This action will develop and co-design transitional alternative futures of the EU, in which the Ocean, seas and waters are conserved or restored to good health. The action will support the co-creation of narratives, and innovative visualisation tools such as maps, related to different scenarios of what the EU and its ocean, seas and water spaces could look like by 2030 and 2050 if innovative solutions to restore our ocean and waters would be applied, so that the targets of the Mission Ocean and Waters and consequently those of the European Green Deal are fully reached. These narratives must be supported by the co-design of different science-based transition pathways together with citizens including students and key stakeholders such as scientists, experts and decision-makers responsible for planning ocean and water spaces. The co-design process should be inclusive, participatory following transdisciplinary and structured science-policy-society interface methodologies and taking into consideration environmental, social, economic and political considerations.

Please, visit the following page to get more information regarding this call:https://www.developmentaid.org/grants/view/1293650/our-blue-future-co-designing-a-future-vision-of-a-restored-ocean-and-water-system-in-the-eu-by-2030?useNavigation=true