Better understanding, anticipating and addressing the biodiversity benefits and impacts of the clean and digital industries
- Funder
- European Commission · Horizon Europe
- Award amount
- Up to €6,000,000
- Deadline
- January 14, 2027
- Eligible countries
- European Union, United Kingdom, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, Israel, Global
Summary
Open EU call topic HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-02 · HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions. Part of call HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01: Transformative change towards a nature-positive economy and society. Next deadline 2027-01-14. Topic page: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/portal/screen/opportunities/topic-details/HORIZON-NATURE-2027-01-02
Expected Outcome: Proposals are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: - society, end-users, industry and decision makers better understand, anticipate and address biodiversity impacts of Europe’s reindustrialisation and decarbonisation across the value chain, from the demand-side and the design and operational phase to the end-of-life and waste phases, thus preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services by choosing least-harm transition options; - society, end-users, industry and decision makers understand the benefits and impacts on biodiversity of societal, political, economic and technological choices, taking into account the direct, indirect and cumulative, and spatial and temporal dimensions, thus avoiding burden-shifting across ecosystems, regions and value chains; - clean and digital industries are more resilient and provided with solutions to mitigate their impacts on terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecosystems and work towards a nature-positive economy, in line the EU Taxonomy and the Do No Significant Harm principle.
Scope: One of the EU’s biggest priorities is to achieve the sovereign clean transition and digital transition. The Clean Industrial Deal is Europe’s plan to improve competitiveness and reduce carbon emissions through circularity, focusing on energy-intensive sectors and clean technology, including the critical raw materials and energy infrastructure that supports them. The European Union also aims to lead the digital transition and the AI revolution, notably through the construction of data centres. These sectors contribute to climate mitigation and broader…
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