FP7 20072013 Theme 6' Environment including Climate Change

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FP7 (2007-2013)Theme 6. Environment (including
Climate Change)
Kirsi Haavisto The Environment Theme Research
DG European Commission
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Environment (including Climate Change)

• Objective
• To promote sustainable management of the natural
  and human environment and its resources
• To address in an integrated way global
  envirnomental issues through
• advanciing knowledge on the interactions between
  the biosphere, ecosystems and human activities
• developing new technologies, tools and services
• With emphasis on
• Predicting climate, ecological, earth and ocean
  systems changes
• Monitoring, preventing and mitigation of
  environmental pressures and risks

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Environment (including Climate Change)

• Activities and sub-activities
• Climate change, pollution and risks
• Pressures on environment and climate
• Environment and health
• Natural hazards
• Sustainable Management of Resources
• Conservation and sustainable management of
  natural and man-made resources and biodiversity
• Management of marine environments

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Environment Theme (including
Climate Change)

• Activities and sub-activities
• Environmental Technologies
• Environmental technologies for observation,
  simulation, prevention, mitigation, adaptation,
  remediation and restoration of the natural and
  man-made environment
• Protection, conservation and enhancement of
  cultural heritage including human habitat
• Technology assessment, verification and testing

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Environment Theme (including
Climate Change)

• Activities and sub-activities
• Earth observation and assessment tools for
  sustainable development
• Earth and ocean observation systems and
  monitoring methods for the environment and
  sustainable development
• Forecasting methods and assessment tools for
  sustainable development, taking into account
  differing scales of observation
• Horizontal activities
• - Dissemination and horizontal activities

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Areas of Environmental Research(For cross FP
comparison)

• Climate change
• Natural hazards
• Environment and health
• Natural resources management
• Biodiversity
• Marine environment
• Land and urban management
• Environmental technologies including Cultural
  heritage
• Earth observation
• Assessment tools for sustainable development

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Outcome 2007, 2008 and 2009 calls

• FP7-ENV-2007-1
• 632 proposals received
• 73 (2 ERA-Nets) selected for funding (5 on
  reserve list)
• Indicative budget 200 million Euros
• Coverage of the work programme 71
• FP7-ENV-2008-1
• 425 proposals received
• 64 selected for funding (24 on reserve list)
• Indicative budget 212 million Euros
• Coverage of the work programme 91
• FP7-ENV-2009-1
• 227 proposals received
• 55 selected for funding (28 on reserve list)
• Indicative budget 193.5 million euros
• Coverage of the work programme 90

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Environment (including climate change)Work
Programme 2010

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Strategy for WP2010

• General features
• Addressing ERA objectives in a tangible manner
• Greater emphasis on environmental technologies
• Increasing SME/industry participation (bottom-up)
• Enhancing links with policy Climate-Energy
  Package and Economic Recovery Plan
• Continue cross-thematic approaches
• a) Marine research,
• b) Water and food security and better health
  for Africa,
• c) 3 PPPs (Recovery Package)
• Supporting International collaboration
• Greater focus on dissemination, take-up and use
  of results

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Strategy for WP2010

• Overarching theme
• Environmental safety and welfare
• Through research contribute to assessing,
  reducing and preventing tensions and conflicts
  related to the depletion of natural resources and
  environmental services which are due to rapid
  environmental changes and/or natural/man-made
  hazards putting emphasis on resource productivity
  through environment technologies

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WP 2010 Environment

• ERA dimension
• Preparation of Article 169 Initiative on the
  Baltic Sea (BONUS)
• 3 ERA-Nets
• - Biodiversity
• - Eco-innovation
• - Water Management
• Strategic partnerships e.g coordinating RD
  policies on sustainable development
• 2 CSAs to support FP6 Networks of Excellence
  towards durable integration (atmospheric
  composition, marine)

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WP 2010 Environment

• Cross-thematic approaches
• The Ocean of tomorrow Call
• Contribution to the cross-thematic call on
  European recovery plan
• Green cars
• Energy efficient buildings
• Call for Africa

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WP 2010 Environment

• The Ocean of tomorrow Call (KBBE, ENV, ENER,
  SSH, Transport)
• Topics in the Environment Theme
• Quantification of climate change impacts on
  economic sectors in the Arctic (Large scale
  integrating project)
• Vectors of changes in ocean and seas marine like,
  impact on economic sectors (Large scale
  integrating project)
• Sub-seabed carbon storage and the marine
  environment
• (Large scale integrating project)

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WP 2010 Environment

• Contribution to the Cross-thematic calls on the
  European Recovery Plan (public-private
  partnerships-PPP) - ENV, ENER, SSH, Transport
• Energy- Efficient Buildings
• Compatible solutions for improving the energy
  efficiency of historic buildings in urban areas
  (Collaborative project)
• Green cars
• Materials, technologies and processes for
  sustainable automotive electrochemical storage
  applications (Collaborative project)

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WP 2010 Environment

• International collaboration (I)
• Call for Africa (ENV,KBBE, Health)
• Topics in ENV WP2010
• The effect of environmental change on the
  occurrence and distribution of water related
  vector borne diseases in Africa (Small or medium
  scale research project)
• Early warning and forecasting systems to predict
  climate change related drought vulnerability and
  risks in Africa (Small or medium scale research
  project)
• Integrated management of water and natural
  resources in Africa (Small or medium scale
  research project)
• Decentralized water supply and sanitation
  technologies and systems for small communities
  and peri-urban areas (Small or medium scale
  research project)
• Water harvesting technologies in Africa (Small or
  medium scale research project)

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WP 2010 Environment

• International collaboration (II)
• SICA and other topics with international
  collaboration are reinforced
• Besides topics for Africa
• (Examples)
• - North Atlantic Ocean protection and
  management (emphasis on cooperation with US)
• - Ocean acidification in the Mediterranean
  sea
• - Climate policy scenarios and mitigation
  options in dev. Countries and emerging
  economies
• - Global plankton data set building in view of
  modeling
• - Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control of
  industrial emissions in the Mediterranean region
• - Networking of EO activities in the Balkan area

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WP 2010 Environment

• Emphasis dissemination, uptake and use of
  research results
• Dedicated topics
• Dissemination and uptake of FP environmental
  research results with tangible impact on economic
  growth and social welfare
• Dissemination and exploitation of research
  results to enhance impacts of environmental
  research activities in an enlarged Europe
• Each proposal
•  To allocate appropriate efforts and resources
  to dissemination activities in order to promote
  the use and uptake of the results 
• Contract negotiation
• Clause 29 (access to policy relevant
  information) and Clause 39 (open access
  publishing)

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WP 2010 Environment

• Implementation and budget (I)
• Balanced combination of FP7 funding schemes
• Collaborative research (large scale and
  small-medium size projects)
• ERA-Nets
• SICAs
• Coordination and support actions
• New approaches
• - Bottom-up topics
• Budget
• 175 mio for the main ENV Call
• 10.5 mio for the Ocean of Tomorrow Call
• 17.5 mio for the Africa Call
• 5.0 mio for the Green cars
• 5.0 mio for the Energy efficient buildings
• __________________________
• 213 mio in total

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Implementation and budget (II)

• There are five calls

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Climate Change, pollution and risks (I)
• Atmospheric chemistry and climate change
  interactions (Large scale integrating project)
• Networking activities on atmospheric composition
  and climate change for research collaboration and
  policy making (Coordinating action)
• Changes in CO2 uptake and CH4 uptake emissions by
  oceans in a changing climate (Large scale
  integrating project)
• Underpinning work to enable provision of local
  scale climate information (annual to decadal
  timescales) (Small or medium scale research
  project)
• Impact of ocean acidification in the
  Mediterranean in a changing climate (Small or
  medium scale research project)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Climate Change, pollution and risks (II)
• Climate change mitigation options linked to
  deforestation and agriculture in the context of a
  post-2012 international agreement on climate
  change (Small or medium scale research project)
• Explore climate policy scenarios for developing
  countries and/or emerging economies (Supporting
  action)
• Quantifying the costs of mitigating climate
  change by means of activities involving joint
  climate and economic modelling (Small or medium
  scale research project)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Environment and health
• Indoor air pollution and health risks of modern
  office buildings (Small or medium scale research
  project)
• Human health and environmental effects of
  exposure to pharmaceuticals released into the
  environment (Small or medium scale research
  project)
• Exposure models to assess the risks to operators,
  workers, residents and bystanders from exposure
  to plant protection products (PPPs) (Small or
  medium scale research project)
• Greenhouse gas emission reduction policies and
  their impacts on public health and well-being in
  urban areas (Small or medium scale research
  project, SICA)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Natural Hazards
• Building a culture of risk prevention in Europe
  (Small or medium scale research project)
• New methodologies for multi-hazard and multi-risk
  assessment (Small or medium scale research
  project)
• Social science research, natural hazards and
  decision making process (Coordinating action)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Sustainable management of resources (I)
• Integrated resource management based on land and
  land-use management (Large scale integrating
  project)
• Evaluation of effectiveness of economic
  instruments in integrated water policy (Small or
  medium scale research project)
• Functional significance of forest biodiversity
  (Large scale integrating project)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Sustainable management of resources (II)
• Developing a European scientific biodiversity
  Network to inform policy-making and economic
  actors (Coordinating action)
• Increasing the understanding of the role of soil
  biodiversity in ecosystem functioning (Large
  scale integrating project)
• Assessing vulnerability of urban systems,
  populations and goods in relation to natural and
  man-made disasters in Africa (Small or medium
  scale research project)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Management of marine environment
• North Atlantic Ocean and associated shelf-seas
  protection and management options collaboration
  with US Canada (Large scale integrating
  project)
• Global plankton data set building in view of
  modelling (Small or medium scale research
  project)
• Coordination actions to support FP6 NoEs durable
  integration (Coordinating action)
• (see also Call  Ocean of Tomorrow )

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Environmental technologies (I)
• Technologies and systems for urban water cycle
  services (Large scale integrating project)
• Innovative system solutions for municipal sludge
  treatment and management (Small or medium scale
  research project)
• Innovative technologies and eco design
  recommendations for reuse and recycling of
  Construction and Demolition (CD) waste, with a
  special focus on technologies for onsite
  solutions (Small or medium scale research
  project)
• Innovative technologies and system solutions for
  municipal solid waste management in densely
  populated cities (Small or medium scale research
  project)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Environmental technologies (II)
• Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control of
  industrial emissions in the Mediterranean region
  (Coordinating action, additional criteria)
• Resource efficient and urban friendly
  construction sites(Small or medium scale research
  project)
• Environmental technologies for brownfield
  regeneration (Small or medium scale research
  project)
• Technologies for automated monitoring of air
  pollution in cities (Supporting action)
• Development of technologies for long-term carbon
  sequestration(Small or medium scale research
  project)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Protection, conservation and enhancement of
  cultural heritage, including human habitat
• Non-destructive diagnosis technologies for the
  safe conservation of movable cultural assets
  (Small or medium scale research project)
• Technology assessment, verification and
  testing
• Reduction of the use of animals in
  eco-toxicological safety testing (Coordinating
  action)
• Boosting Life Cycle Assessment use in SMEs
  development of sectoral methods and tools (Small
  or medium scale research project)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Earth observation and assessment tools for
  sustainable development (I)
• Supporting the integration of European and
  international RD programmes in GEO (Coordinating
  action)
• Building observational datasets for the
  predictability of global atmospheric, oceanic and
  terrestrial processes using reanalysis techniques
  (Small or medium scale research project)
• Integrating new data visualisation approaches of
  earth Systems into GEOSS development (Small or
  medium scale research project)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Earth observation and assessment tools for
  sustainable development (II)
• Exploring GNSS (global navigation satellite
  systems) applications for Global Environmental
  Earth Observation and GEOSS (Global Earth
  Observation Systems of Systems) (Coordinating
  action)
• Global Observation Systems for Mercury (Large
  scale integrating project, SICA)
• Identification and Networking of EO activities in
  the Balkan area (Coordinating action)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Forecasting methods and assessment tools for
  sustainable development taking into account
  differing scales of observation
• Enhancing model integration for the assessment of
  global environmental change (Small or medium
  scale research project)
• Development of integrated economic and
  environmental accounts (Small or medium scale
  research project)
• Foresight to enhance behavioural and societal
  changes enabling the transition towards
  sustainable paths in Europe (Small or medium
  scale research project)
• Producing a shared vision on how to harness RD
  to sustainability (Coordinating action, CSO)
• Brokerage activities to promote sustainable
  consumption and production patterns (Small or
  medium scale research project)

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Topics for WP 2010 Environment

• Horizontal activities
• Dissemination and uptake of FP environmental
  research results with tangible impact on economic
  growth and social welfare (Supporting action)
• Dissemination and exploitation of research
  results to enhance impacts of environment
  research activities in an enlarged Europe
  (Coordinating action)

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• Info Days
• 13/07/09, Brussels, PPPs/Recovery Plan
• 16/09/09, Brussels, Infoday on Ocean Call
• 17/09/09, Brussels, Infoday on the main ENV Call
• 18/09/09, Brussels, Infoday on Africa Call

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• Thank you very much for your
  attention!