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SUMMARY:Water4All 2022 Joint Transnational Call Announcement
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20221031
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CATEGORIES:Call for proposal
DESCRIPTION:The joint transnational call has been launched in the framewor
 k of the European partnership Water4All and will support research and inno
 vation projects aimed at delivering knowledge\, models\, approaches\, tool
 s and methodologies to better understand hydrological processes at differe
 nt scale\, in order to respond more efficiently to emerging water issues r
 elated to extreme events.\nIn line with the strategic objectives of Water4
 All\, the results of the projects will contribute to the implementation of
  evidence-based\, global\, EU and national water management policies and s
 trategies\, 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 mode
 ls\, and enhanced participation of stakeholders in water management issues
  related to extreme events.\n\nResearch & innovation proposals submitted u
 nder the Water4All 2022 Joint Transnational Call are required to address a
 t least one of the following topics:\n\n	Resilience\, adaptation and mitig
 ation to hydroclimatic extreme events\n	Tools for water management - in th
 e context of hydroclimatic extreme events\n	Improved water governance in t
 he context hydroclimatic extreme events and international contexts\n\nThe 
 international RD&I projects duration should be 36 months. Funded consortia
  will be asked to agree on a common starting date\, to be set in the last 
 quarter of 2023/first quarter of 2024.\nOver 30 M€ have been provisional
 ly allocated for this Joint Transnational Call by the participating Fundin
 g Partner Organisations (FPOs)\, including support from the European Union
 . The Swiss participating FPO is the Swiss National Science Foundation (SN
 SF)\, and the total allocated budget is 900’000 EUR for the Swiss part o
 f the projects. These funds will be used for RD&I activities carried out b
 y researchers\, institutions and companies according to the funding rules 
 and legal frameworks of their respective FPOs.\n\nEligible applicants:\n\n
 All Swiss applicants and co-applicants must be eligible for the SNSF Proje
 ct Funding Scheme. Please note that applications submitted by a non-eligib
 le person will not be considered nor evaluated. Please refer to the regula
 tions and contact the national contact person for questions and re-assuran
 ce. Notice that Switzerland is among the countries involved in the Joint C
 all\, in the category „Third countries and other countries“. Researche
 rs from Switzerland should therefore not be considered as self-funded part
 ners.\n\nConsortium composition:\n \n\n	Each consortium must be composed 
 of at least a minimum of three eligible partners that request funding from
  participating Funding Partner Organisations from three different countrie
 s.\n	The projects must involve at least two independent legal entities fro
 m two different EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries as
  recipients of the financial support.\n	The upper limit of eligible projec
 t partners per consortium is 7 (including 1 self-funded partner).\n	The ma
 ximum number of partners from the same country within the consortium must 
 comply with national/regional regulations.\n	For proposals involving up to
  5 partners\, maximum two entities that are also involved in the Water4all
  partnership may participate in the same proposal. Larger proposals may in
 volve up to three entities that are also involved in the Water4all partner
 ship.\n	In each proposal\, one of the entities must act as the Consortium 
 Coordinator which has the responsibility for submitting the proposal.\n	Th
 e Consortium Coordinator must be eligible for funding by a FPO of this cal
 l. The P.I. of the entity acting as Consortium Coordinator can only partic
 ipate in one proposal (i.e. if the principal investigator is the Consortiu
 m Coordinator of a proposal\, he/she cannot participate in any other propo
 sal\, neither as a Consortium Coordinator nor as Principal Investigator of
  a partner).\n\n\nFunding:\nTo provide for a greater degree of flexibility
 \, there is no maximum contribution set per project for the Swiss part. Ne
 vertheless\, budgets of a collaborative research project must be balanced 
 and the SNSF expects that applicants carefully consider the budgetary requ
 est in a relation to the effective needs of the project.\n\nEligible costs
 :\nAccording to the regulations on project funding (article 8). The eligib
 le costs are the same as for SNSF Project Funding (see EPFL Instructions f
 or SNSF Project Funding).\n\nThe SNSF exclusively funds research conducted
  for purposes that are not directly commercial. Pursuant to the Research a
 nd Innovation Promotion Act RIPA and the legal framework of the SNSF\, no 
 research grants are awarded if the relevant research is conducted for dire
 ctly commercial purposes or if the persons involved in the research work a
 re not scientifically independent.\n\nSubmission process:\n\n\n	Swiss base
 d partners must provide basic administrative data by submitting administra
 tive applications via the online submission system mySNF for the same dead
 lines as the consortium applications. For this\, Swiss based partners need
  a personal account on www.mySNF.ch.\n	Please select the “Projects/Partn
 erships/Water4All” funding instrument when creating the administrative a
 pplication for the pre-proposal and “Projects/Partnerships/Water4All” 
 if you are invited to submit a proposal for the second stage. The pre-prop
 osal can be used as a template when the full proposal is created in mySNF 
 and should be referred to in the section “Relation to pre-proposal” of
  the full proposal.\n	In case of funding\, consortia including Swiss partn
 ers must submit a data management plan (DMP) on mySNF which complies with 
 the SNSF policy on open research data.\n	The pre-proposal and the full pro
 posal must be submitted correctly and completely by the Consortium Coordin
 ator via the Water4All Online Submission Tool.\n	Proposals must be written
  in English.\n\n\nTentative timeline:\n\n\n	Submission deadline of pre-pro
 posal: 31 October 2022 at 15:00 (CET)\n	Selection of pre-proposals: 10th J
 anuary 2023\n	Submission Deadline of Full-proposals: 20th March 2023\n	Sel
 ection of Proposals: 6th June 2023\n	Projects kick off / Start: Autumn 202
 3\n\n\nFor more information\, please have a look at the call webpage\, the
  call guidelines\, the online application form and partnering tool. Releva
 nt documents by the Funding Partner Organisation (SNSF) can also be found 
 in the National/Regional Regulations document (page 67).\n\nPlease contact
  research@epfl.ch for any additional questions.\n\n\n\n 
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