2. 🎯 Objectives and General Research Themes/Topics
The overall objective of the call is to fund research in the form of Collaborative Projects (including SME-targeted ones) across 5 major thematic areas related to the environment and climate change:
Challenge/Activity
General Objective
Specific Topics Called For (Title)
6.1 Coping with climate change
Developing knowledge and tools for predictions, mitigation, and adaptation.
Seasonal-to-decadal climate predictions; Advanced techno-economic modelling tools for assessing mitigation costs/impacts; Strategies, costs, and impacts of adaptation.
6.2 Sustainable use and management of land and seas
Addressing sustainable use of ecosystems, biological resources, and the marine environment.
Operational potential of ecosystem services and natural capital; European contribution to GEO BON (Global Biological Resources); Innovative tools for Good Environmental Status (GES) of marine waters (The Ocean for Tomorrow); Management and impacts of litter in marine/coastal environment (The Ocean for Tomorrow).
6.3 Improving resource efficiency
Developing solutions for greater resource efficiency.
Innovative resource efficient technologies, processes, and services.
6.4 Protecting citizens from environmental hazards
Strengthening societal resilience to natural hazards and advancing knowledge on environment and health.
Improving resilience to catastrophic natural hazards (new risk-management partnerships); Long-term monitoring in geologically active regions (Supersite concept); Integrating environmental and health data (European exposome initiative).
6.5 Mobilising environmental knowledge
Developing monitoring systems, demonstrating research results, and supporting policy/industry.
Developing community-based environmental monitoring systems (novel earth observation applications); Demonstration and exploitation of most promising prototypes and tools.
3. 🏛️ Funded Organizations (Eligibility Criteria)
Funding Schemes:
Collaborative Project
SME-targeted Collaborative Project
Minimum Consortium: At least 3 independent legal entities, each established in a Member State (MS) or Associated Country (AC), and no 2 of which are established in the same MS or AC.
Additional SME Criteria (Stage 2):
30% of the estimated EU contribution must go to SMEs for topics: ENV.2012.6.3-1, ENV.2012.6.5-1, ENV.2012.6.5-2.
15% of the estimated EU contribution must go to SMEs for topics: ENV.2012.6.2-1, ENV.2012.6.2-2, ENV.2012.6.2-3, ENV.2012.6.2-4, ENV.2012.6.4-2.
4. 📅 Key Dates and Indicative Timetable
Stage
Date
Time (Brussels Local Time)
Publication Date
20 July 2011
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Stage 1 Deadline
20 October 2011
17:00:00
Stage 1 Evaluation Finalization
End of December 2011
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Stage 2 Deadline (Indicative)
15 February 2012
17:00:00
Stage 2 Evaluation (Estimate)
March 2012
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Overall Results Availability (Estimate)
Within 3 months after the Stage 2 closure date
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Grant Agreement Negotiations (Estimate)
May/June 2012
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5. 🔬 Research Methods and Evaluation
Evaluation Procedure: Two-stage submission and evaluation.
Project Focus: Projects are geared towards knowledge generation, tool development, modelling, long-term monitoring experiments, and demonstration activities.
6. 📝 Deliverables (Organized by Type)
Deliverable/Result Type
Description
Scientific Articles (Publications)
Open Access Obligation (Special Clause 39, Open access pilot in FP7). Beneficiaries must ensure free access to peer-reviewed articles resulting from projects via an institutional or subject-based repository.
Tools/Models
Development of advanced techno-economic modelling tools (ENV.2012.6.1-2), innovative tools for assessing marine GES (ENV.2012.6.2-3), and monitoring systems (ENV.2012.6.5-1).
Prototypes/Technologies
Demonstration and exploitation of promising prototypes and tools (ENV.2012.6.5-2), and resource-efficient technologies and processes (ENV.2012.6.3-1).
Strategies/Recommendations
Development of climate change adaptation strategies (ENV.2012.6.1-3), and information for sustainable land, water, and urban management (ENV.2012.6.2-1).
Data/Monitoring
Contribution to observation networks (GEO BON – ENV.2012.6.2-2), long-term monitoring experiments (Supersite – ENV.2012.6.4-2), and integration of environment and health data (ENV.2012.6.4-3).
7. 🌍 Case Studies – Specific Geographical Locations
While the document does not name specific cities or buildings, it mentions targeted areas and concepts:
Geologically Active Regions of Europe: Where the Supersite concept is applied for long-term monitoring of geohazards (ENV.2012.6.4-2).
Marine and Coastal Environment: Management of marine litter (ENV.2012.6.2-4) and assessment of Good Environmental Status (GES) of marine waters (ENV.2012.6.2-3) under the ‘The Ocean for Tomorrow’ initiative.
Land, Water, and Urban Management: Exploring ecosystem services concepts to inform management practices (ENV.2012.6.2-1).
8. 🌐 Links and Contacts
Information Type
Details/Link
EU Portal (Archive/Call Details)
The document references the EPSS electronic portal for proposal templates. A direct link to the call page is not provided, but it can be searched on EU archive portals (e.g., CORDIS) using the identifier FP7-ENV-2012-two-stage.
Not mentioned in the call for proposals document. This information would typically be made public only after projects are funded and results are published.
