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Water4All 2022 Joint Transnational Call Announcement

“Management of water resources: resilience, adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events and management tools”

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Water4All 2022 Joint Transnational Call - Open!

Thirty-Four Funding Agencies from all over Europe and abroad are pleased to announce a joint transnational call for research and innovation projects on:

“Management of water resources: resilience, adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events and management tools”.

The joint transnational call will be launched in the framework of the European partnership Water4All and will support research and innovation projects aimed at delivering knowledge, models, approaches, tools and methodologies to better understand hydrological processes at a different scale, in order to respond more efficiently to emerging water issues related to extreme events.
In line with the strategic objectives of Water4All, the results of the projects will contribute to the implementation of evidence-based, global, EU and national water management policies and strategies, within the frameworks of the Green Deal, the Water Framework Directive, Just Transition and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, governance playing a key role in water challenges, the 2022 Joint Transnational Call will seek for innovative governance models, and enhanced participation of stakeholders in water management issues related to extreme events.

Call Topics:

The call will focus on solutions for hydroclimatic extreme events, as described in the Water4All Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda Theme III “Water for the future: sustainable water management”, as well as address the cross-cutting Theme VII “Governance” and Theme V “Water Infrastructures”. Research & innovation proposals submitted under the Water4All 2022 Joint Transnational Call are required to address at least one of the following topics:

Topic 1. Resilience, adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events

  • Addressing knowledge gaps in our understanding of the causes of water scarcity, drought events, seasonal variability in climate impacts to develop adaptation and mitigation measures, taking climate change into account.
  • Developing and demonstrating innovative (or improved) societally acceptable adaptation and mitigation strategies to cope with hydro-climatic extreme events and their increase in length and duration. This includes floods and droughts, although is not limited to them, adopting a regional or a basin scale wide approach.
  • Improving resilience and adaptation capacity of water infrastructure (e.g., industrial water facilities, urban networks, wastewater treatment facilities, stormwater management systems and rural systems) to hydroclimatic extreme events.

Topic 2. Tools for water management - in the context of hydroclimatic extreme events

  • Developing tools (e.g., multi-risk approach, decision support tools, monetary/non- monetary costs valuation) to support the design and implementation of strategies for adaptation and mitigation to hydro-climatic extreme events, especially floods (including “flash-floods”), heat waves and droughts in a catchment to sea perspective.
  • Generating new methodologies, tools and models for water resources assessment/modelling for water bodies in scarcely monitored /data scarce areas. A combination of physical and digital solutions is expected, and opportunities provided by citizen science should be seized.
  • “Smartening the water system” and use of innovative digitalization, including improved/new sensors, models, communications and computing technologies.

Topic 3. Improved water governance in the context hydroclimatic extreme events and international contexts

  • Undertaking an analysis and developing robust Governance models for the management of water resources in the context of extreme events, is critical increasing the decision-making capacity of institutions and involvement of citizens. This should include ways of improving coordination between water managers to increase our capacity to reduce vulnerability to extreme events, as well as effectively respond to them.
  • Addressing and encouraging international cooperation in the field of water, including management of transboundary water resources and contribution to Water Diplomacy.

Please note that it is not compulsory to address all subtopics within a topic in the proposals.

 

Click here to read the Call Announcement.

 

Call publication and tentative timeline: 

COMMUNICATION TO THE APPLICANTS

On the 27th February, the Call Secretariat sent the Evaluation Notice on the results of the STEP 1 to all the Pre-proposals Coordinators by e-mail.

The Coordinators who missed the reception of the email may contact the Call Secretariat.

  • Call Opening: 1st September 2022
  • Submission Deadline of Pre-proposal: 31st October 2022 at 15:00 (CET)
  • Selection of Pre-proposals: 15th February 2023
  • Opening Full Proposals submission: 27th February 2023 at 14.00 (CET)
  • Period of Appeal : 27th  February - 13rd March 2023
  • Submission Deadline of Full-proposals: 27th April 2023 at 15:00 (CET)
  • Selection of Proposals: Mid-September 2023
  • Projects kick off / Start: Autumn 2023

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Participating countries and funding organisations

  • List of funding partner organisations and national contact points.
  • List of national/regional regulations

Update 17 October
- new CONFAP’s agency made funds available
Update 4 October
- CONFAP from Brazil increased its national budget for the call

Update 29 September

Update 23 September
- Call Announcement - Update Table 1 – Participating countries
- National Annex – Update Brazil National Regulation: Increase Confap’s contributions

Update 14 September
- EPA from Ireland and SNSF from from Switzerland updated their information

Update 7 September
- IFD from Denmark has updated their national regulations.
- We are pleased to announce that CONFAP from Brazil has increased its national budget for the call. The total amount available from Brazil is 1.063.400,00 €

The following funding organisations have agreed to participate in the Water4All joint transnational call 2022:

austria.png Austria Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung - FWF

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Belgium Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen - VLAIO
Fonds Voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek-Vlaanderen – FWO
Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique - F.R.S.-FNRS

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Brazil

Brazilian National Council of State Funding Agencies – CONFAP

Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development – CNPq
RC.png Czech Republic Technology Agency of the Czech Republic - TA CR
denmark.png Denmark Innovation Fund Denmark – IFD
estonia.png Estonia Sihtasutus Eesti Teadusagentuur – ETAg
france.png France Agence Nationale de la Recherche – ANR
germany.png Germany Federal Ministry of Education and Research – BMBF
hungary.png Hungary Nemzeti Kutatási, Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal – NKFIH
ireland.png Ireland Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland – EPA
israel.png Israel Ministry of Energy – MoE
italia.png Italy Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca – MUR
Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico – MISE
latvia.png Latvia Latvijas Zinatnes padome – LZP
lituania.png Lithuania Lietuvos mokslo taryba - LMT
luxembourg.png Luxembourg Luxembourg National Research Fund – FNR
malta.png Malta Ministry for Environment, Energy and Enterprise – MEEE
moldavia.png Moldova National Agency for Research and Development – NARD
netherlands.png Netherlands Dutch Research Council - NWO
norway.png Norway Research Council of Norway – RCN
poland.png Poland Narodowe Centrum Badań i Rozwoju – NCBR
portugal.png Portugal Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia - FCT
romania.png Romania The Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation Funding – UEFISCDI
slovakia.png Slovakia Slovak Academy of Sciences – SAS
southafrica.png South Africa Water Research Commission - WRC
spain1.png Spain Agencia Estatal de Investigación – AEI
Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology - CDTI
sweden.png Sweden The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning – FORMAS
switzerland.png Switzerland Swiss National Science Foundation – SNSF
turkey.png Turkey Turkiye Bilimsel Ve Teknolojik Arastirma Kurumu – TUBITAK
Unitedkingdom.png United Kingdom Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - EPSRC UKRI

The participation of applicants from other countries is allowed, if they have their own separate source of funding or if funds by another source are guaranteed (i.e., by a national or international funding organisation).

 

Support for Applicants: 

Information Webinar for Applicants

To dowload the presentation of the webinar: Click here

Watch the recorded webinar below:

 
Frequently asked questions (FAQ):
Click here

 
Submission Platform:
Click here

 

Partnering tool: Click here

 

Guidelines for pre-proposal submission (update: 5th of September): Click here

 

For more information, please contact:

Water4All Call Secretariat
Aldo Covello, Maria Bianco
MUR - Ministry of Universities and Research
DG for internationalization and communication
E-mail: water4all2022_callsecretariat@mur.gov.it

Duration of the project

The international RD&I projects duration should be 36 months.

Budget:

Over 30 M€ have been provisionally allocated for this Joint Transnational Call by the participating Funding Partner Organisations, including support from the European Union.

About Water4All Partnership

The Water4All partnership is starting in 2022 under the auspices of the European Union Horizon Europe programme for research and innovation, to concentrate research and innovation on water in Europe and beyond. Water4All’s Vision is to “boost the systemic transformations and changes across the entire research – water innovation pipeline, fostering the matchmaking between problem owners and solution providers for ensuring water security for all in the long term”.

To strengthen the water Research Development and Innovation (RD&I) collaboration, to produce and to share top class water-related knowledge and data, Water4All will launch a series of annual Joint Transnational Calls (JTCs). The topics for the calls will be drawn from the water challenges identified in the Water4All Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and will pool national financial resources through the participation of ministries, authorities and funding organisations.

To know more about the partnership click here

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