BiodivMon - 2nd Call of the European Partnership Biodiversa+

FCT is member of the new European co-funded Biodiversity Partnership Biodiversa+ “Rescuing Biodiversity to Safeguard Life on Earth”, jointly developed by BiodivERsA and the European Commission (DG Environment and DG Research & Innovation).

Being a part of the European Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 to build the bridge between science, policy and practice, Biodiversa+ gathers 76 research programmers and funders and environmental policy actors from 39 European and associated countries to work on 5 main objectives.

1. Plan and support research and innovation on biodiversity through a shared strategy, annual joint calls for research projects and capacity building activities.
2. Set up a network of harmonised schemes to improve monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem services across Europe.
3. Contribute to high-end knowledge for deploying Nature-based Solutions and valuation of biodiversity in the private sector.
4. Ensure efficient science-based support for policy-making and implementation in Europe.
5. Strengthen the relevance and impact of pan-European research on biodiversity in a global context.

In 2022, the European Partnership Biodiversa+ launched the BiodivMon Call under the topic “Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society”, covering the following themes:

• Innovation and harmonization of methods and tools for collection and management of biodiversity monitoring data.
• Addressing knowledge gaps on biodiversity status, dynamics, and trends to reverse biodiversity loss.
• Making use of available biodiversity monitoring data.

1. The following are individual or co-promotion beneficiaries:
   1. Non-entrepreneurial entities of the R&I system, namely:
      i. Higher education institutions, their institutes and R&D units;
      ii. State or international laboratories with head office in Portugal;
      iii. Non-profit private institutions whose main object is R&D activity;
      iv. Other non-profit public and private institutions developing or participating in scientific research activities.
   2. Companies of any type and under any legal form.

The information contained in this section does not exempt you from consulting Article 3 of the "Regulation of projects financed exclusively by national funds"

1- Consult the call documents.

2- Read the national/regional rules of all the participating countries involved in your consortium (including your own), available in the "National Annexes". Non-eligible partners may lead to the rejection of the whole consortium.

3- Access the call page and partner search website.

4- Within 10 working days after the deadline for submitting the pre-proposals, the Portuguese teams (Partners and/or Coordinators) must:

• send to the Call National Contact Point a Statement of Commitment duly signed by the Researcher in Charge and by the Head of the Portuguese applicant organization and stamped. FCT may later require the original of the statement of commitment.

The information contained on this page constitutes only a summary of the joint call information and does not exempt the candidates from carefully reading all the joint call documents available on this page and on the Biodiversa+ website (see “useful links”).

Evaluation process:

A Two-Step evaluation process will be organised.

1. First Step:

•  Eligibility check of pre-proposals will be performed by the Call Secretariat, according to the “eligibility criteria” present in the call documents;
•  Eligibility check of pre-proposals will be performed by the Funding Organisation Contact Points, according to the national requirements;
•  Evaluation of the eligible pre-proposals will be performed by an independent Evaluation Committee (accordingly with the “Assessment criteria” presented in the call documents) against the following criteria:

1. Fit to the scope of the call
2. Novelty of the research
3. Impact

The Call Steering Committee will decide which pre-proposals will be invited to submit full proposals (second step).

2. Second Step:

• Eligibility check of full proposals will be performed by the Call Secretariat;
• Eligibility check of full proposals will be performed by the Funding Organisation Contact Points;
• Evaluation of the eligible full proposals will be performed by an independent Evaluation Committee (accordingly with the “Assessment criteria” presented in the call documents) as well as by external reviewers (3 external reviewers per proposal: 2 scientific and 1 policy) against the following criteria:

1. Excellence
2. Quality and efficiency of the implementation
3. Impact

The Call Steering Committee will decide which projects to recommend for funding, following the order of the ranking list established by the Evaluation Committee and taking into account the available budget.

FCT financial commitment for the call: 500.000 €

Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese participation: 80.000 €

Maximum requested funding for a consortium with Portuguese coordination: 120.000 €

Note: if more than one Portuguese institution participates in each consortium, the budget must be shared. Portuguese institutions must follow FCT's Legislation, Regulations and Norms. The dedication (FTE) in transnational projects is not considered for the 100% (FTE) dedication to national projects.

Call page

BiodivERsA Stakeholder Engagement Handbook

BiodivERsA Policy Guide

BiodivERsA Citizen Science Toolkit

Partner search website

Joana Pinheiro
joana.pinheiro@fct.pt
Tel: (+351) 213 911 567

Pedro Ferreira
pedromiguel.ferreira@fct.pt
Tel: (+351) 213 911 596