{"id":8455,"date":"2021-10-19T11:49:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T09:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polsca.pan.pl\/en\/?p=8455"},"modified":"2021-10-19T12:05:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T10:05:38","slug":"european-biodiversity-partnership-new-funds-for-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/polsca.pan.pl\/en\/european-biodiversity-partnership-new-funds-for-research\/","title":{"rendered":"European Biodiversity Partnership. New funds for research"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On October 5, 2021, a webinar entitled European Biodiversity Partnership. New funds for research<\/strong> was hosted by the Polish Science Contact Agency of the PAS (PolSCA)<\/strong> in Brussels and the National Science Centre, Poland<\/strong>. The webinar took place a few days after the official establishment of the European co-funded Partnership on Biodiversity under Horizon Europe<\/a><\/strong>, which as the successor of the BiodivERsA network took over the name of Biodiversa +<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Partnership was established on October 1, 2021, under the 2nd pillar of the Horizon Europe framework program and is co-funded by the European Commission. It acts as an European platform connecting national and regional research & innovation programmes supporting rescue and protection of biodiversity on Earth. Poland is among over 30 member states of this network and is represented by the National Science Center (NCN), which in the first call undertakes an important role of the Call Secretariat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SCOPE OF THE MEETING<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main purpose of this information session was to present the thematic scope and requirements of the first Biodiversa+ call for international research proposals, launched on October 1 by 45 research funding agencies from 33 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The meeting was opened by Prof. Robert Hasterok<\/strong>, a member of the NCN Council as well as Dr. Tomasz Poprawka<\/strong>, director of the PolSCA Office. The first speaker of the webinar was Dr. Tomasz Mr\u00f3z<\/strong>, a representative of the National Center for Research and Development \u2013 National Contact Point (Poland). Dr. Mr\u00f3z outlined the landscape of European partnerships being now created within cluster 6 of the Horizon Europe. In the next few years those partnerships aim to support transnational research and innovation corresponding to the cluster objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mission and the main goals of the Biodiversa + Partnership, as well as plans for the years to come were presented by Dr. Hilde Eggermont<\/strong>, Chair and Coordinator of the new Partnership. Following that part, Ms. Claire Blery<\/strong> (CEO Biodiversa+, French Foundation for Biodiversity Research) <\/strong>together with dr Sophie Germann (Biodiversa+, French National Research Agency)<\/strong> <\/strong>presented thematic scope of the call, criteria and evaluation process, as well as the call\u2019s conditions at the international level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last session of the webinar was dedicated to the NCN\u2019s national eligibility criteria to be met by all applicants from Polish organizations. All information and guidelines were provided by Ms. Anna Kotarba and Dr. Mateusz Sobczyk<\/strong>, the representatives of the National Science Center responsible for coordinating the Biodiversa + Partnership\u2019s activities in Poland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE FIRST BIODIVERSA+ CALL<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The call Supporting the protection of biodiversity and ecosystems across land and sea<\/em><\/strong> was announced on October 1, 2021 and aims to support transnational research projects addressing one or more of the three (non-exclusive) following themes<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n