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JPI Oceans

OPEN CALL: NEXT GENERATION CLIMATE SCIENCE IN EUROPE FOR OCEANS

14 June 2019

JPI Climate & JPI Oceans launched, on Feb. 18th 2019, a Joint Transnational Call on the theme “Next Generation Climate Science in Europe for Oceans” bringing together 9 countries with a total budget of 8.6 million EUR to fund innovative projects focusing on oceans and climate, using observations and Earth system models in order to address the following topics:

  1. Strengthening our understanding of climate variability and extremes resulting from the interactions with the oceans such as extratropical and tropical cyclones, and how they are affected by climate change on a range of time scales.
  2. Improving the representation of air-sea interactions, physical and biogeochemical ocean processes in Earth System Models to better represent small-scale non-linear processes as well as water, energy and carbon cycles. Model-data analyses using innovative approaches will be welcome.
  3. Improving estimates of climate change induced modifications of ocean physics and ocean chemistry, associated with biogeochemical cycles, including ocean acidification and carbon sequestration.

This joint call between JPI Climate and JPI Oceans mobilizes funding organizations for transnational added values on climate sciences with a special focus on oceans and climate interactions. Only a strong collaboration and cohesion between the countries will lead to European leadership in the next IPCC assessments and science contribution required by United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which will then trigger a new wave of Climate Services innovation for next decade. Therefore, this joint call aims at funding two major projects for each theme encompassing as much as possible all countries participating in the call. Focusing on oceans will shed new light on the stressors impacting on marine life and consequently on marine bio-economy. The joint call will also help inform adaptation policy by bringing key knowledge to increase resilience and adaptation measures for vulnerable areas, especially in coastal and low island areas.

Who can apply?

The Joint Call will be supported by funding up to 8.6 Mio EUR from the following Research Funding Organisations (RFOs):

  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR), France
  • Belgian Science Policy office (BELSPO)
  • German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal
  • Ministry of Education and Science (IZM), Latvia
  • Marine Institute (MI), Ireland
  • Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR), Italy
  • Norges forskningsrad (RCN), Norway
  • Icelandic Marine and Freshwater Research Institute (MFRI) & Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO), Iceland

Funding of participating researchers will be provided by their respective national funding organisations, in accordance with their eligibility conditions. In addition, researchers based in other countries are able to participate with their own resources.

Application procedure

Each application must address only one of the three themes of the call. Please note that not all funding organisations will fund applications in all topic areas.

Consortia should be comprised of a minimum of three partners from three different participating countries. The application process is a one-stage submission process.

Deadline

The deadline for submitting proposals is on 14 June 2019 at 13:00 CEST. All applications must be submitted via the submission platform.

Time Schedule

  • Call opening - 18 February 2019
  • Full proposal deadline - 14 June 2019
  • Funding decision announced - October 2019
  • Start of projects - January 2020

MORE INFORMATION

For more information visit JPI Climate website and the Call Text

Before starting to prepare proposals, applicants are advised to consult the funding organisation eligibility rules and contact their funding organisation(s) listed in the annex documents for the call.

National Elegibility and Funding

  • FCT will fund proposals in ALL TOPICS of the call
  • FCT contribution to the call is 300.000 EUR with a maximum 100.000 EUR per project and a maximum of two national teams per project;
  • Research project are expected to start early 2020 and have a maximum duration of 36 months;

Each Portuguese institution must sign and stamp a Declaration of Commitment available here

Furthermore it is necessary to make proof that the Researcher in Charge has or will have, at the time of signing the project’s acceptance document, a labour bound, a post-doctoral grant with the Proposing Institution or, in case there is no such situation, send a written agreement between the parties.

Contacts

Joana Pinheiro
joana.pinheiro@fct.pt
Tel: (351) 213 911 567
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Av. D. Carlos I, 126
1249 – 074 Lisboa
Portugal
Marta Norton
marta.norton@fct.pt
Tel: (351) 213 911 565
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Av. D. Carlos I, 126
1249 – 074 Lisboa
Portugal

CALL CLOSED: Knowledge Hub on Food and Nutrition Security

The JPI HDHL together with JPI OCEANS and FACCE-JPI partners are pleased to announce the launch of the ERA –HDHL 3rd Joint Funding Action ”Knowledge Hub on Food and Nutrition Security". This new joint initiative aims to establish a Knowledge Hub on Food and Nutrition Security and to provide the unique possibility to connect researchers with other existing initiatives and relevant stakeholders in the Food and Nutrition Security research area. The Knowledge Hub (KH) is implemented under the umbrella of the JPI HDHL 1st ERA-Net Cofund.

The overall aim of the Knowledge Hub on Food and Nutrition Security is to foster transnational and multidisciplinary collaboration and networking in order to accelerate, further characterize and to manage the impact of climate change on nutritional make-up of food, and to propose adaptive strategies/measures to ensure food and nutrition security.

To accomplish this vision, various funding agencies from 9 countries will bring together research groups from different disciplines to form an international consortium that will design and implement the Knowledge Hub.

The networking activities should contribute to the current challenges in the area of Food and Nutrition Security research, and ensure that existing research activities in this area are coordinated. Examples of networking activities could include:

  1. Bringing together clinicians; crop, farmed animal, aquaculture, fisheries, food and nutrition scientists; biological scientists, (bio) informatic experts, data sharing experts, and industry to enhance dialogue between different disciplines
  2. Case studies for data sharing
  3. Development of SOPs for collection and handling of samples, data collection and processing as well as basic analysis and data formatting
  4. New multidisciplinary research to address the aims of the call

Interested researchers should express their interest in participating in the KH applying online using the electronic submission system of the JPI HDHL at the following link

The deadline for submission of the expression of interest is 4 April 2019.

More information and the call documents are available online at the following link

FCT participation

FCT will facilitate the participation of Portuguese researchers currently funded under a national project under the themes of the KH. Any other researcher interested in the Knowledge Hub can participate with own funding. For more information on national participation please contact FCT.

Contacts

Marta Norton
marta.norton@fct.pt
Tel: (351) 213 911 565
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Av. D. Carlos I, 126
1249 – 074 Lisboa
Portugal

CALL CLOSED: Microplastics in the marine environment

FCT participates in the 2nd call for proposals on the theme "Microplastics in the Marine Environment" promoted by JPI Oceans "Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans" (JPI Oceans) where twelve member countries, together with Brazil, will support transnational research projects to study the origin, distribuiton and impact of microplastics in the marine environment with a total funding of 9.2 M€. The call comprises 4 main themes:

  1. Identification, characterisation and quantification of the major microplastic sources, especially mechanisms and time scales of macroplastic fragmentation
  2. New sampling and analytical methodologies - focusing on the smaller (nano)particles and in situ measurement methods for all matrices (water, sediment, biota)
  3. Monitoring and mapping of microplastics in the marine environment including its effects on the marine environment
  4. Concepts to reduce inputs of plastics into the marine environment including through new recycling methods, raising public awareness, promoting behavioural change, socio-economic analyses

Elegibility and National Regulations

  • National proposals should address only topic 3: Monitoring and mapping of microplastics in the marine environment including its effects on the marine environment
  • Research project are expected to start early 2020 and have a maximum duration of 36 months
  • Proposals need to involve eligible research partners from at least three participating countries.
  • The maximum requested funding per proposal is € 2,000,000
  • Each Portuguese institution must sign and stamp a Declaration of Commitment (Declaração de Compromisso) by the Portuguese Principal Investigator as well as by the Head of the Portuguese institution. A scanned copy of the “Declaration of Commitment”, in accordance with the template provided above, must be sent, by e-mail, to the FCT’s contact person no later than 10 working days after the pre-proposal submission deadline. FCT may request the original document at a later date.

FCT / National regulations available at PARTNERS (PORTUGAL/National regulations)

More information

For more information visit JPI Oceans website available at site da JPI Oceans.

Funding

The national funding commitment is 300.000€ to fund only one project with one or more national teams.

Participating Countries

Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, Estonia, France, Holland, Ireland, Iceland, Malta, Norwat, Portugal and Sweden

Call Calendar

  • Launch 20 November, 2018
  • Deadline, 28 February, 2019
  • End of evaluation, 31 May 2019
  • Funding Decision, June 2019
  • Start of Projects, January 2020

Contactos do Concurso

Marta Norton
marta.norton@fct.pt
Tel: (351) 213 911 565
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Av. D. Carlos I, 126
1249 – 074 Lisboa
Portugal

Concursos anteriores - JPI Oceans

“Impacts of Deep-Sea Nodule Mining” - CLOSED

On August 1st, 2017, a number of JPI Oceans member countries launched a joint call for preproposals to study the environmental impacts and risks associated with seabed mining.

This call is being conducted as a follow-up of the joint action under the framework of JPI Oceans. It calls for cruise proposals for the RV SONNE in early 2019 in the Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone (CCZ), subequatorial eastern Pacific.

Interested participants are invited to express their interest in submitting a pre-proposal or joining a consortium by filling out their partner profiles on the following submission website which will function as a virtual brokerage space.

Submission of pre-proposals will be invited from August 1, 2017 to November 1, 2017. Projects are expected to start from July 1, 2018. Each application for a joint project must involve researchers from at least three funding partner countries.

Partners

Several funding organisations have confirmed their interest to participate and these are:

  • Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO) and Flanders EWI Department, Belgium
  • The Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF), Germany
  • Research Council of Norway (RCN), Norway
  • The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), The Netherlands
  • Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and Direção-Geral de Política do Mar (DGPM), Portugal

Expected associated partners with in-kind contributions include:

  • France
  • Italy
  • Sweden
  • International Seabed Authority (Jamaica Headquarters)

Focus of the Call

NATIONAL REGULATION:

Proposals should address the topics outlined in the call text, published on August 1, 2017. Some important topics will include:

  • the fate and impact of the particle plume generated during mining operations,
  • the definition of appropriate indicators of ecosystem health and threshold values for “harmful effects” on the environment as well as
  • measures to mitigate significant adverse effects,
  • an assessment of associated environmental risks, and
  • implementation of scientific knowledge and respective uncertainties into improved legislation, including analyses that address the science-policy interface.

Proposals should be linked to an industrial field trial / demonstration project of mining equipment in the deep sea.

Eligibility and National Regulations

Research projects should start in the second semester of 2018 for a maximum of 36 months.
Each consortium submitting a proposal must involve researchers from at least three eligible countries (countries of the funding partners). No maximum number of partners is specified.

Each Portuguese institution must sign and stamp a Declaration of Commitment (Declaração de Compromisso) by the Portuguese Principal Investigator as well as by the Head of the Portuguese institution. A scanned copy of the “Declaration of Commitment”, in accordance with the template provided above, must be sent, by e-mail, to the FCT’s contact person no later than 10 working days after the pre-proposal submission deadline. FCT may request the original document at a later date.

Funding

The funding commitment for national teams is the result of a collaboration betweeen FCT and DGPM each contributing with 100.000€ in a total of 200.000€ The maximum budget per project is 200.000€. If a consortium has more than one Portuguese team, the funding must be shared.

For more information on the call visit JPI Oceans website, and the call submission website.

Call Contacts

Marta Norton
marta.norton@fct.pt
Tel: (351) 213 911 565

Gonçalo Zagalo
goncalo.zagalo@fct.pt
Tel: (351) 213 924455

FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Av. D. Carlos I, 126
1249 – 074 Lisboa
Portugal

Joint Call on Microplastics - Results

The results of the Joint Transnational Call for research projects in Microplastics evaluation process can be found here.

Joint Transnational Call for research projects in Microplastics - closed

Purpose and Overview

FCT is a partner in the Joint Programming Initiative "Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans" (JPI Oceans). This initiative, which was established in 2011 and currently includes 21 participating countries, provides a long-term integrated approach to marine and maritime research and technology development in Europe.

Transnational research proposals must cover at least one of the following areas, which are equal in relevance for this call:

  • Validation and harmonisation of analytical methods (interlaboratory study)
  • Identification and quantification of microplastics
  • Eco-toxicological effects of microplastic – impact on marine organisms

Eligibility and National Regulations

Research projects should start in the first semester of 2016 for a maximum of 36 months.
Each consortium submitting a proposal must involve researchers from at least three eligible countries (countries of the funding partners). No maximum number of partners is specified.

Each Portuguese institution must sign and stamp a Declaration of Commitment (Declaração de Compromisso) by the Portuguese Principal Investigator as well as by the Head of the Portuguese institution. A scanned copy of the “Declaration of Commitment”, in accordance with the template provided above, must be sent, by e-mail, to the FCT’s contact person no later than 10 working days after the pre-proposal submission deadline. FCT may request the original document at a later date.

Detailed information on the call topics, application submission and the evaluation process can be found at the JPI Oceans’ call website.

Funding

FCT funding commitment for national teams is 250.000€. The maximum budget per project is 250.000€ if the project is coordinated by a national team and 150.000€ if the project is participated by national teams. If the same consortium has more than one Portuguese team, the funding must be shared.

Participating Countries

Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

Deadline for proposal submission

Applications should be submitted between 10th February 2015 and 31st March 2015, 12:00 (Central European Summer Time).

Contact - Programa Oceano

Sofia Cordeiro
sofia.cordeiro@fct.pt
Tel: (351) 213 924 495
FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Av. D. Carlos I, 126
1249 – 074 Lisboa
Portugal