HORIZON 2020 Societal Challenges Disaster-resilience: safeguarding and securing society, including adapting to climate change Disaster Resilience & Climate Change topic 1: Science and innovation for adaptation to climate change: from assessing c
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Add Your proposal +Budget: €65,400,000 H2020-DRS-2014Deadline Date: 28-08-2014Programme: Horizon 2020MAX Co-funding rate: 100Applicants: Research centres, Local and Regional authorities, SMERegions: European Union, Candidate countries, European Economic AreaEligibility conditions: Three legal entities. Each of the three shall be established in a different Member State or associated country. All three legal entities shall be independent of each other.
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Proposals should aim to:
- Develop a platform to organise consultations and facilitate dialogue among different stakeholder groups at the EU and Associated countries level and at different geographical scales, throughout the duration of Horizon 2020, paying due attention to, and establishing linkages with international developments in the field; as well as
- Support clustering and close cooperation among international, EU and nationally funded initiatives in the field of climate change adaptation, and disaster risk reduction, promote foresight and large-scale dissemination activities, and foster the science-policy interface across the EU.
- Develop standardised methods to assess climate change impacts, vulnerabilities, and risks, and to identify and assess the performance of adaptation measures (technological and non-technological options). Methods should focus on long-term climate change and extreme events for European sectors of particular socio-economic and environmental significance, paying due consideration to uncertainty, and encompass indirect, cross-sectoral effects and cascade impacts, where relevant.
- Provide state-of-the-art decision support tools tailored to facilitate decision-making by different end-users (e.g. individuals, businesses, other private sector firms, local authorities and planners, governments), while developing adaptation plans and measures.
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