Biodiversa+ BiodivTransform – deadline 8 November 2024

Posted: 10 September 2024

The BiodivTransform Call aims to support interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and/or cross-sectoral research and innovation projects that will:

• Help understand trade-offs and cross-linkages between the worldwide crises of biodiversity loss, climate change and pollution;
• Identify, analyse, and comprehend transformation processes that may safeguard biodiversity by mitigating its threats and halt – even reverse – its decline, as well as the benefits it may provide to people.

This call adopts a bottom-up approach and intentionally does not define research themes.

Projects will be expected to demonstrate academic excellence with potential for societal and policy impact regarding biodiversity, aiming to connect science, society, policy, and practices for transformative change.

This call is not restricted in terms of specific environments nor geographic areas, encompassing all realms (terrestrial, marine, coastal and freshwater) and ecosystems experiencing various levels and sources of disturbances, including transition zones and interfaces (coastal, wetlands, urban–rural, forest–agriculture, etc.) and in integrated land/seascapes.

Call schedule

A two-step application procedure applies, with the mandatory submission of pre-proposals at the first step and the submission of full proposals at the second step.

Launch of the call: Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Deadline for pre-proposals (mandatory): Friday, 8 November 2024, 15:00 CET (local time in Brussels)
Results of the evaluation of the first step: mid-February 2025
Deadline for full proposals: Friday, 11 April 2025, 15:00 CEST (local time in Brussels)
Recommendations for funding: late September 2025
Start of the projects: between 1 December 2025 and 1 April 2026

Webinar

A mandatory Biodiversa+ BiodivTransform Call webinar for potential applicants will take place on 24 September 2024 (13:00 to 15:00 CEST).

➔ View all the information regarding the call.