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Specific Programme 1 ‘Integrating and Strengthening
the European Research Area’ (SP1)
Priority 8 –
Horizontal Activities
SP1-10 - Specific Measures in Support of International Cooperation
(INCO)
Deadlines:
STREPs/CAs - 13 September 2005
SSAs - 7 September 2005
- A. Developing Countries
A. 1.2 Public Heath Systems with particular
emphasis on ‘basic sanitation aspects and prevention
of hygiene deficiencies in health care management…’
(STREPS and CAs)
A. 2 Rational use of natural resources
(SSAs)
A 2.3 Managing arid and semi-arid ecosystems
- STREP and CAs
(ii) Sustainable, integrated water resource management (IWRM)
at river-basin scale should address such dimensions as: increasing
use efficiency, particularly in irrigated agriculture; agroforestry,
increasing recycling and re-use for tree growing, (peri-urban
plantations etc), including innovative multi-purpose utilisation
requiring integrated management attentive to quantity and
quality aspects; control of sediment load, erosion, flash
floods, control of private use, pollution and water logging;
water supply/resource management at basin level in order to
meet competing demands including up-stream and down-stream
effects in relation to peri-urban areas and groundwater management
in terms of quantity, quality and change in water table. Policy
scenarios should address interdependencies beyond physical
water (virtual water) and pay explicit attention to gender
roles.
A. 3.2.1 Development of desirable traits
of food plants focussed on tolerance to abiotic stress, in
particular tolerance to drought/heat/salinity
(STREPS and CAs)
- B. Mediterranean Partner Countries
B.1 Environment with strong emphasis on water
management issues relevant to the Initiative
(SSAs)
- D. Russia and the other New Independent States
D.1 Environmental protection with emphasis
on water
(SSAs)
Further information and documentation is available from the CORDIS
Calls Service
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Thematic Priority 6.3 – Global
Change and Ecosystems
Topics of the Specific work programme:
- II.3.2.1 Hydrology and climate processes.
Climate change has a profound impact on the components of
the water cycle; very relevant research challenges still exist
with regard to climate change modelling to make them compatible
for river basin or catchment management. There is a need to
develop downscaling methods and improved modelling approaches
to translate the results of global and regional climate change
modelling studies to hydrological studies at spatial and temporal
scales relevant for water management, and to develop up-scaling
methods for water cycle parameters and related data assimilation
techniques. Forecasting of climate change impacts on hydrology
should give special attention to possible changes in frequency
and severity of droughts and floods and on the development
of forecasting technologies and systems. The research will
focus on climate modelling at catchment and regional scale
as well as on climate variability, floods and drought.
(STREPS/CAs/IPs)
- II.3.2.2 Ecological impact of global change, soil
functioning and water quality
Global change can exert severe impacts on the ecology of aquatic
and wetland ecosystems, on the filter and transport functions
of soils and on water quality. Assessments of these changes
requires a better understanding of the consequences of major
hydrological changes, to identify and quantify the key biogeochemical
processes and to predict the consequences of global change
at different scales. The integrated management of soil-water
systems requires a detailed understanding of the properties
and the functional role of soils, and the behaviour and fate
of pollutants, in order to allow the development of risk-based
management approaches. The research will focus on impacts
of global change on the ecology of surface water bodies, and
on water-soil system functioning and management.
(STREPS/CAs)
- II.3.2.3 Integrated management strategies and mitigation
technologies
Research will focus on the development of integrated approaches
and tools for water-soil resources management in the context
of global change – with its different components of
climate change, land use change, other anthropogenic drivers,
etc. - and integrated vulnerability assessments, taking also
into consideration socio-economic and technological aspects
of water use. Research will focus on the catchment scale,
on the specific aspects of integrated urban water management
and mitigation technologies as well as on the management of
scarce water resources and mitigation technologies. Emphasis
has to be placed on developing flexible adaptation strategies
to change, in order to decrease vulnerabilities. This will
require specific technological development, particularly for
matching with longer drought periods and with more intense
rainfall events, especially in urban areas.
(STREPS/CAs)
- II.3.2.4 Scenarios of water demand and availability.
With the aim of defining a sustainable development framework
and to provide to policy-makers instruments in support of
policy choices, more advanced analytical tools have to be
worked out in order to define more realistic medium- and long-term
scenarios of water demand and availability at a wide regional
level. The research will concentrate on the development of
scenarios for Europe and neighbouring countries.
(IPs)
- IX. Specific Support Actions - Technology Platform
on Water Supply and Sanitation.
The scope of the TP will be to define a strategic research
agenda and an action plan on water supply and sanitation,
with the objective of strengthening European industry competitiveness
in the growing world market. The SSA should aim at supporting
the organisational structure of the TP. This action derives
from the adoption of the Environmental Technology Action Plan
(COM(2004) 38 final). This action should also be linked to
the EU Water Initiative.
Further information and documentation is available from the
CORDIS
Calls Service
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Water Facility:
Co-financing water and sanitation actions with the ACP-EU WATER
FACILITY IN ACP COUNTRIES
Call deadline 17 January 2005
The ACP-EU Water Facility is directed towards achievement
of the MDGs and WSSD targets, within the framework of the EU
Water Initiative.
The development of the Water Facility is linked as far as Africa
is concerned to the work carried out under the relevant components
of the EU Water Initiative, in particular on water and sanitation
and Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM), as well as
on the cross-cutting issues of finance, research, and monitoring/reporting
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Dialogues and activities taking place at national and river
basin levels constitute an important framework to mobilize potential
applicants to generate sound proposals for the Water Facility.
Research capacity building is considered among the eligible
topics and also reflected among the award criteria.
For more information about the call open now for application
until 31 January 2005, go directly to the AIDCO
website at http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/projects/water/index_en.htm
(select "FED/BUDGET" from the drop-down, tick status
"open", type "grants", all regions and countries
and submit query).
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