Horizon Europe (2021 - 2027)

Social science for land-use strategies in the context of climate change and biodiversity challenges

Last update: Aug 31, 2023 Last update: 31 Aug, 2023

Details

Location:EU 27EU 27
Contracting Authority Type:Development Institution
Status:Awarded
Budget:EUR 20,000,000
Award ceiling:N/A
Award floor:N/A
Sector:Environment & NRM, Land & Erosion & Soil, Research
Languages:English
Eligible applicants:Unrestricted / Unspecified, Individuals
Eligible nationalities:Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, A ... See moreAfghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Angola, Anguilla, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Austria, Azerbaijan, Azores, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, British Virgin Islands, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canary Islands, Cape Verde, Caribbean Netherlands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Costa Rica, Cote d'Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Dem. Rep. Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Commonwealth of, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Eswatini (Swaziland), Ethiopia, Falkland Islands, Faroe Islands, Fiji, Finland, France, French Polynesia, French Southern Territory, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, North Korea, North Macedonia, Norway, Pakistan, Palau, Palestine / West Bank & Gaza, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Spain, Sri Lanka, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Sudan, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Wallis and Futuna, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Date posted:29 Jun, 2021

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Call Updates

Oct 7, 2022 6:41:49 PM

Call HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-two-stage (second stage) has closed on 27 September 2022, 17:00:00 Brussels time.

13 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

  • HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-03-two-stage: 6 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in December 2022.


May 19, 2022 7:39:34 PM

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 of topic HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-03:

  • The specific objectives were not always clearly linked to verifiable outputs to enable monitoring and measurement of their achievement.
  • The contributions from social sciences and humanities and comprehensive integration of social science approaches and methods to the proposed work were not always clear or sufficiently elaborated.
  • The information on the models to be used or developed and their integration into the proposed activities was sometimes insufficiently clear in the methodology.
  • The pathways to achieve the expected policy or societal impacts (including barriers to achieve them) were sometimes less well addressed

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 13, 2022 7:01:02 PM

Call HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-two-stagefirst stage evaluation results

Published: 11/05/2022

Deadline: 10/02/2022

Available budget: 51 EUR million

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 at 8 for each topic/type of action with separate call-budget-split.

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Topic HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-03-two-stage: Social science for land-use strategies in the context of climate change and biodiversity challenges

  • Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 11
  • Number of inadmissible proposals: 0
  • Number of ineligible proposals: 0
  • Number of above-threshold proposals: 6

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: 39.36 EUR million

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/contact/research-enquiry-service_en


Feb 16, 2022 11:25:12 AM

Call HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-two-stage (first stage) has closed on 10 February 2022, 17:00:00 Brussels time.

28 proposals have been submitted.

The breakdown per topic is:

  • HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-03-two-stage: 11 proposals

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in May 2022.


Oct 12, 2021 9:42:14 AM

The submission session is now available for: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-03-two-stage(HORIZON-RIA)


Social science for land-use strategies in the context of climate change and biodiversity challenges

TOPIC ID: HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-03-two-stage

Programme: Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON)
Call: Climate sciences and responses (HORIZON-CL5-2022-D1-01-two-stage)
Type of action: HORIZON-RIA HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
Type of MGA: HORIZON Action Grant Budget-Based [HORIZON-AG]
Deadline model: two-stage
Planned opening date: 12 October 2021
Deadline dates:
10 February 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time
27 September 2022 17:00:00 Brussels time

Topic description
ExpectedOutcome:
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • A characterisation of future expected land use patterns consistent with long-term objectives (especially on climate, biodiversity and renewable energy) and its comparison with the current situation and trends.
  • A comprehensive understanding of the key motivations and drivers (economic, regulatory, legal, cultural, environmental, etc.) behind land-use related decisions in Europe at levels ranging from land owners to public authorities at local, regional and national level, including their relative importance.
  • A better understanding of the awareness of key actors (land owners, managers, local authorities, regulatory agencies) about climate change and biodiversity challenges and their willingness to contribute addressing them, including the adoption of new or different practices consistent with long-term expectations.

Support to climate (mitigation, adaptation) and biodiversity policy design and implementation through economic and behavioural insights allowing the efficient targeting of incentives and engagement of stakeholders in a cost-effective manner, taking into account telecoupling (displacement effects through changes in imports and exports).

Scope:
Actions should aim to gain a realistic understanding of the factors behind land-use decisions and how they can be best oriented towards the efficient and socially responsible pursuit of multiple policy objectives on various scales (from the individual field/farm to region to national to continental scale). They should develop a toolbox of instruments and approaches deployable at different levels consistent with long-term goals and strategies considering, inter alia:

  • The need for land to provide net sequestration and biomass flows consistent with the demands of various mitigation pathways, on different timescales.
  • The continued need for land to provide food, feed and raw materials under increasing climate change and other pressures and needs (e.g., water availability, climate change resilience).
  • The potential for demand-side measures that can contribute to long-term objectives (such as sustainable and healthy dietary change) and how they can be deployed.
  • The crucial need for halting and, if possible, reversing biodiversity loss in Europe and globally.
  • The socioeconomic dynamics, behavioural patterns and inertia related to land ownership, management and policies.
  • The considerable diversity of land use patterns, approaches and biogeographic conditions in Europe, including land-related resources such as water.
  • The need to make the instruments and approaches, including collective learning and negotiation processes at local and landscape scale, widely and practically available to the key actors, to enable sustainable change.
  • The need to avoid rebound (detrimental displacement effects).

Actions should focus on one or more of the following issues:

Development of realistic scenarios and workable models for optimising the contribution of land to climate change mitigation, adaptation and biodiversity objectives, where possible integrating with Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs), consistent with expectations while reducing conflicts, exploiting synergies and managing risks (agroforestry can be one example of a system that allows higher productivity, more resilience and more biodiversity at the same time).
Economic and behavioural insights into land use related decisions, barriers to change, efficient design of incentives. This should explore the relative merits of instruments (regulatory, market-based, education, soft policy).
Explore a range of delivery mechanisms that could best incentivise the upscaling of the required changes under real-life situations in multiple settings (countries, biogeographical regions).
Develop workable models for effective and efficient monitoring and incentivising public goods benefits (such as emissions reductions, biodiversity protection and water services).
Contribute to the better quantification of land-related greenhouse gas flux trajectories for integrated assessment models on relevant scales (including displacement effects).
Participation of and co-creation with relevant societal stakeholders should be part of the action, including interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and the contribution from social sciences and humanities and other relevant disciplines.

Synergies should be ensured with topics related to land-use, biodiversity and ecosystems in Cluster 5 and in other Clusters, with the implementation of the Mission on Adaptation to climate change including societal transformation, as well as with other relevant actions, programmes and initiatives[1].

This topic requires the effective contribution of SSH disciplines and the involvement of SSH experts, institutions as well as the inclusion of relevant SSH and gender expertise, in order to produce meaningful and significant effects enhancing the societal impact of the related research activities.

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