Water4All 2022 Joint Transnational Call Announcement
Event details
Date | 31.10.2022 |
Category | Call for proposal |
The joint transnational call has been 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 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.
Research & innovation proposals submitted under the Water4All 2022 Joint Transnational Call are required to address at least one of the following topics:
- Resilience, adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events
- Tools for water management - in the context of hydroclimatic extreme events
- Improved water governance in the context hydroclimatic extreme events and international contexts
Over 30 M€ have been provisionally allocated for this Joint Transnational Call by the participating Funding Partner Organisations (FPOs), including support from the European Union. The Swiss participating FPO is the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), and the total allocated budget is 900’000 EUR for the Swiss part of the projects. These funds will be used for RD&I activities carried out by researchers, institutions and companies according to the funding rules and legal frameworks of their respective FPOs.
Eligible applicants:
All Swiss applicants and co-applicants must be eligible for the SNSF Project Funding Scheme. Please note that applications submitted by a non-eligible person will not be considered nor evaluated. Please refer to the regulations and contact the national contact person for questions and re-assurance. Notice that Switzerland is among the countries involved in the Joint Call, in the category „Third countries and other countries“. Researchers from Switzerland should therefore not be considered as self-funded partners.
Consortium composition:
- 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 countries.
- The projects must involve at least two independent legal entities from two different EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries as recipients of the financial support.
- The upper limit of eligible project partners per consortium is 7 (including 1 self-funded partner).
- The maximum number of partners from the same country within the consortium must comply with national/regional regulations.
- 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 involve up to three entities that are also involved in the Water4all partnership.
- In each proposal, one of the entities must act as the Consortium Coordinator which has the responsibility for submitting the proposal.
- The Consortium Coordinator must be eligible for funding by a FPO of this call. The P.I. of the entity acting as Consortium Coordinator can only participate in one proposal (i.e. if the principal investigator is the Consortium Coordinator of a proposal, he/she cannot participate in any other proposal, neither as a Consortium Coordinator nor as Principal Investigator of a partner).
Funding:
To provide for a greater degree of flexibility, there is no maximum contribution set per project for the Swiss part. Nevertheless, budgets of a collaborative research project must be balanced and the SNSF expects that applicants carefully consider the budgetary request in a relation to the effective needs of the project.
Eligible costs:
According to the regulations on project funding (article 8). The eligible costs are the same as for SNSF Project Funding (see EPFL Instructions for SNSF Project Funding).
The SNSF exclusively funds research conducted for purposes that are not directly commercial. Pursuant to the Research and Innovation Promotion Act RIPA and the legal framework of the SNSF, no research grants are awarded if the relevant research is conducted for directly commercial purposes or if the persons involved in the research work are not scientifically independent.
Submission process:
- Swiss based partners must provide basic administrative data by submitting administrative applications via the online submission system mySNF for the same deadlines as the consortium applications. For this, Swiss based partners need a personal account on www.mySNF.ch.
- Please select the “Projects/Partnerships/Water4All” funding instrument when creating the administrative application for the pre-proposal and “Projects/Partnerships/Water4All” if you are invited to submit a proposal for the second stage. The pre-proposal 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.
- In case of funding, consortia including Swiss partners must submit a data management plan (DMP) on mySNF which complies with the SNSF policy on open research data.
- The pre-proposal and the full proposal must be submitted correctly and completely by the Consortium Coordinator via the Water4All Online Submission Tool.
- Proposals must be written in English.
Tentative timeline:
- Submission deadline of pre-proposal: 31 October 2022 at 15:00 (CET)
- Selection of pre-proposals: 10th January 2023
- Submission Deadline of Full-proposals: 20th March 2023
- Selection of Proposals: 6th June 2023
- Projects kick off / Start: Autumn 2023
For more information, please have a look at the call webpage, the call guidelines, the online application form and partnering tool. Relevant documents by the Funding Partner Organisation (SNSF) can also be found in the National/Regional Regulations document (page 67).
Please contact [email protected] for any additional questions.
Practical information
- General public
- Free