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Assessing the role of economic instruments in policy mixes for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services provision (POLICYMIX) (POLICYMIX)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Earth observation and assessment tools for sustainable development
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Norway,Germany,Portugal,Netherlands,United Kingdom,Finland,Costa Rica,Brazil
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2014-03-31
Duration (months): 48.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4327151.14
EU funding (EUR): 3458312.23
Participants: 10
Project status: CLOSED

POLICYMIX aims to contribute to achieving the EUs goals of reversing trends in biodiversity loss beyond 2010 through the use of cost-effective and incentive-compatible economic instruments. POLICYMIX focuses on the role of economic instruments in a mix of operational conservation policy instruments. To this end, POLICYMIX will develop an integrated evaluation framework that considers multiple policy assessment criteria – biodiversity and ecosystem service provision indicators; valuation of their economic benefit and policy implementation costs; social and distributional impacts; and legal and institutional constraints – at different levels of government. This multi-level approach is of paramount importance for effective biodiversity conservation policy given the overlap between ecological systems and systems of governance in practice. In particular, we evaluate the cost-effectiveness and benefits of a range of economic instruments vis-á-vis direct regulation through command-and-control in a variety of European and Latin American case studies. The suite of selected POLICYMIX case studies aims to provide complementary examples of innovative economic instruments such as Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) and ecological fiscal transfers, and assess the possibilities for transfer of policy success stories, providing concrete learning possibilities for policy-makers. POLICYMIX actively uses advisory boards including land-users, local managers and national policy-makers, who collaborate with our researchers in the feasibility assessments of economic instruments. Based on this science-policy dialogue, POLICYMIX will develop a stepwise framework for carrying out policy assessment using available data, multi-criteria spatial targeting tools and tiered policy selection matrices. The POLICYMIX approach to policy design at multiple government levels is highly complementary with on-going EU ecological research on multi-scale conservation prioritization.

Keywords: economic instruments,biodiversity conservation,ecosystem services,government levels,cost-effectiveness,valuation,latin america
KNOwledge from Science to SOcitieS (KNOSSOS)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Horizontal activities
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Kenya,United Kingdom,Austria,Belgium
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-04-01
End date: 2015-04-30
Duration (months): 61.0
Total project cost (EUR): 987392.2
EU funding (EUR): 868478.0
Participants: 5
Project status: CLOSED

KNOSSOS seeks to address the gap between science and society in the field of environmental research with a focus on policy makers and civil society, who are the main recipients of the project. We propose to take stock of available research results that are useful for policy-making. KNOSSOS will then add a knowledge management system, with innovative tools to guarantee fast and easy access to relevant information. This initial phase will also yield collaborative workshops on evidence-based policy making and training for policy makers in the field of environmental research. KNOSSOS puts an emphasis on disseminating research findings beyond Europe: through a number of ‘Knowledge Fairs’ as side events of international conferences, but also by including DG Research findings in one of the world’s largest collections of Environmental Science Research, the Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE). In order to ensure swift uptake of European environmental research into policy making, KNOSSOS, with its partner IEEP, the Institute for European Environmental Policy, will issue monthly policy briefs for European, national and international policy makers. Aiming for enhanced visibility of European mission to raise public awareness about emerging environmental issues. KNOSSOS’ strength lies in the composition of its consortium: UNEP, the world’s leading environmental authority, joins forces with the Institute for European Environmental Policy, a renowned independent not-for-profit institute with a strong reputation in giving policy advice; and with GLOBE EU/Europe, an excellent partner in training policy-makers and disseminating deliverables. KNOSSOS will have an impact on both policy makers and civil society in and beyond Europe. Our goal is to make European environmental science not only understandable, but also actionable and a preferred reference for all who seek information to pressing ecological questions of our time.

Keywords: knowledge management,policy makers,eu research results,unep,environmental science,policy advise
NEW INTEGRATED KNOWLEDGE BASED APPROACHES TO THE PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE FROM EARTHQUAKE-INDUCED RISK (NIKER)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Environmental technologies
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Italy,Germany,Czechia,Greece,Portugal,Spain,United Kingdom,Türkiye,Morocco,Egypt,Israel,United Kingdom,Bosnia and Herzegovina,Portugal
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2012-12-31
Duration (months): 36.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3522616.0
EU funding (EUR): 2736114.0
Participants: 18
Project status: CLOSED

The project tackles the problem of earthquake-impact on Cultural Heritage assets starting from basic consideration that efficient protection, with substantial guarantee of compatibility and low-intrusivity, can only be achieved with ‘minimum intervention’ approach. This requires that potentialities of existing materials and components are as much as possible exploited in terms of strength and energy dissipation, and candidate interventions are validated and optimized on specific, real application conditions. At the project start, earthquake-induced failure mechanisms, construction types and materials, intervention and assessment techniques will be cross-correlated with the aim of developing new integrated methodologies with a systemic approach. Traditional materials will be enhanced by innovative industrial processes (e.g., nano-limes or micro-silica for injection), and new high-performance (e.g. dissipative) elements will be developed. Novel collaborative combinations of them will be tested on structural components (walls, pillars, floors, vaults) and on structural connections (wall-, floor- and roof-to-wall), which converge the behaviour of single strengthened elements into the global structural response. The envisaged techniques will be also validated on model buildings and substructures. Advanced numerical studies will allow parameterizing the results and deriving simple and optimized design procedures. Early warning techniques for intelligent interventions and advanced monitoring techniques for knowledge based assessment and progressive implementation of interventions will be also developed. This bottom-up approach will bring to new integrated materials, technologies and tools for systemic improvement of seismic behaviour of CH assets. The new solutions will be condensed into guidelines for end-users. The large participation of research centres, SME, and end-user from various countries, including ICPC and MPC, ensures increased impact of the research.

Keywords: movable & immovable heritage,seismic protection,strengthening,monitoring,modelling,masonry,timber
Climate Induced Changes on the Hydrology of Mediterranean Basins: Reducing Uncertainty and Quantifying Risk through an Integrated Monitoring and Modeling System (CLIMB)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: Germany,Italy,Germany,France,Tunisia,Italy,Germany,Germany,Türkiye,Canada,Austria,France,Palestine, State of,Italy,Egypt,France,Germany
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2014-02-28
Duration (months): 50.0
Total project cost (EUR): 4157348.07
EU funding (EUR): 3148945.2
Participants: 21
Project status: CLOSED

With regard to the objectives specified in ENV-2009.1.1.5.2, modeling capabilities must be improved and appropriate tools developed to advance the capability to assess climate effects on water resources and uses. The project consortium will employ a combination of novel field monitoring concepts, remote sensing techniques, integrated hydrologic (and biophysical) modeling and socioeconomic factor analyses to reduce existing uncertainties in climate change impact analysis and to create an integrated quantitative risk and vulnerability assessment tool. Together, these will provide the necessary information to design appropriate adaptive water resources management instruments and select suitable agricultural practices under climate change conditions. The integrated risk and vulnerability analysis tool will also enable assessment of risks for conflict-inducing actions, e.g. migration. The improved models, new assessment tools, and their results will be evaluated against current methodologies. Improvements will be communicated to stakeholders and decision makers in a transparent, easy-to-understand form, enabling them to utilize the new findings in regional water resource and agricultural management initiatives as well as in the design of mechanisms to reduce potential for conflict (linkage to SSH-2009.4.2.1).

Keywords: climate change,hydrology,mediterranean,monitoring,modeling,uncertainty assessment,risk analysis
Costs of Natural Hazards (CONHAZ)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Climate change, pollution, and risks
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Austria,France,United Kingdom,Italy,Spain,Netherlands
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-02-01
End date: 2012-01-31
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 1114239.3
EU funding (EUR): 899487.0
Participants: 8
Project status: CLOSED

Cost assessments of damages of natural hazards supply crucial information to policy development in the fields of natural hazard management and adaptation planning to climate change. There exists significant diversity in methodological approaches and terminology in cost assessments of different natural hazards and in different impacted sectors. ConHaz provides insight into cost assessment methods, which is needed for an integrated planning and overall budgeting, and to prioritise policies. To strengthen the role of cost assessments in natural hazard management and adaptation planning, existing approaches and best practices as well as knowledge gaps are identified. ConHaz has three key objectives. The first objective is to compile state-of-the-art methods and terminology as used in European case studies, taking a comprehensive perspective on the costs of natural that includes droughts, floods, storms, and alpine hazards. ConHaz also considers various impacted economic sectors such as housing, industry and transport, and non-economic sectors such as health and nature. It will consider single and multi-hazards, leading to direct, indirect and intangible costs. ConHaz moreover looks at costs and benefits of risk-prevention and emergency response policies. The second objective of ConHaz is to evaluate the compiled methods. The analysis addresses theoretical issues, such as the principal assumptions that underlie economic valuation of damage types, as well as practical issues, such as the qualifications needed for data collection and quality assurance. ConHaz also looks at the reliability of the end result by considering the accuracy of cost predictions and best-practice-methods of validation. A central issue of the evaluation is to compare available methods with end-user needs. The third objective of ConHaz is to synthesize the results and give recommendations according to current best practice as well as to resulting research needs.

Keywords: floods,droughts,stroms,alpine hazards,damage function,indirect costs,intangible costs,societal impacts,climate change,prevention,emergency response
Future of Reefs in a Changing Environment (FORCE): An ecosystem approach to managing Caribbean coral reefs in the face of climate change (FORCE)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Sustainable management of resources
Action type: Collaborative project
Countries involved: United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Netherlands,Netherlands,Netherlands,Curaçao,Israel,Costa Rica,Jamaica,Mexico,Australia,Netherlands,Germany,Honduras
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-01-01
End date: 2014-05-31
Duration (months): 53.0
Total project cost (EUR): 8581207.2
EU funding (EUR): 6474632.0
Participants: 19
Project status: CLOSED

The Future of Reefs in a Changing Environment (FORCE) Project partners a multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Europe and the Caribbean to enhance the scientific basis for managing coral reefs in an era of rapid climate change and unprecedented human pressure on coastal resources. The overall aim is to provide coral reef managers with a toolbox of sustainable management practices that minimise the loss of coral reef health and biodiversity. An ecosystem approach is taken that explicitly links the health of the ecosystem with the livelihoods of dependent communities, and identifies the governance structures needed to implement sustainable development. Project outcomes are reached in four steps. First, a series of experimental, observational and modelling studies are carried out to understand both the ultimate and proximate drivers of reef health and therefore identify the chief causes of reef degradation. Second, the project assembles a toolbox of management measures and extends their scope where new research can significantly improve their efficacy. Examples include the first ‘coral-friendly’ fisheries policies that balance herbivore extraction against the needs of the ecosystem, the incorporation of coral bleaching into marine reserve design, and creation of livelihood enhancement and diversification strategies to reduce fisheries capacity. Third, focus groups and ecological models are used to determine the efficacy of management tools and the governance constraints to their implementation. This step impacts practical reef management by identifying the tools most suited to solving a particular management problem but also benefits high-level policy-makers by highlighting the governance reform needed to implement such tools effectively. Lastly, the exploitation and dissemination of results benefits from continual engagement with practitioners. The project will play an important and measurable role in helping communities adapt to climate change in the Caribbean.

Keywords: coral reef sustainable management toolbox livelihood governance model health fishery climate change
GEO capacity building initiative in Central Asia (SEOCA)

Framework: FP7 — Cooperation
Programme: Environment (including Climate Change)
Destination: Earth observation and assessment tools for sustainable development
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Germany,Germany,Uzbekistan,Kazakhstan,Türkiye,Greece,Kyrgyzstan,Tajikistan,Turkmenistan
Call:  (FP7-ENV-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-03-01
End date: 2012-02-29
Duration (months): 24.0
Total project cost (EUR): 646560.0
EU funding (EUR): 576516.0
Participants: 14
Project status: CLOSED

Central Asia is an important Europe&apos;s partner facing critical environmental challenges. Possessing certain experiences and capabilities of EO data application for solving environmental, economic, societal and other development problems, this region is better prepared for the uptake of GEOSS technologies than many other clusters of developing countries. Thus, the goal of SEOCA is to promote European GEO-techlogies in the region of Central Asia as a platform solution for the regional development challenges. In order to achieve this goal, the following activities will be implemented: - mapping of regional needs, capabilities, stakeholders, providers and planning further GEO CB activities in the region for the period until 2020 - pilot GEO capacity building programme incl. training for stakeholders, reforming educational standards, direct brokerage between stakeholders and providers, etc. - setting up regional network of GEO offices in all 5 countries - pilot regional GEONETCast network - systemic dissemination and networking activities aimed at promoting GEOSS technologies in the region, building synergies with other relevant initiatives. As a result the consortium expects that SEOCA will radically increase acceptance of GEOSS technologies by regional governments for national environmental services, meteorology, natural hazards prevention, geological explorations, etc. Moreover, the project will lay a foundation for long-term GEO CB activities in the region

Keywords: central asia,geo,geoss,geonetcast,capacity building,needs and capacities mapping,roadmapping,geo offices,eo data exchange network
TURN ON THE LIGHT ON SCIENCE (LIGHT' 09)

Framework: FP7 — People
Programme: Marie-Curie Actions
Theme: Marie Skłodowska-Curie
Destination: European Researchers' Night
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Italy
Call:  (FP7-PEOPLE-2009-NIGHT, 2009)
Start date: 2009-05-01
End date: 2009-11-30
Duration (months): 7.0
Total project cost (EUR): 153355.0
EU funding (EUR): 45000.0
Participants: 3
Project status: CLOSED

LIGHT’09 is a “cultural transformation event” bridging the gap between contemporary researchers and people who will ultimately benefit from their work. LIGHT’09 conducts visitors on a journey into today’s science and technology, giving them reasons to get excited about the future and changing the image they have of scientists and science. The main objective of LIGHT’09 thus consists of changing the image of scientists and science through bringing researchers and public at large closer to one another. Moreover, LIGHT’09 is a fun yet informative festival throwing the spotlight on science and the “human face” of scientists. It also encourages younger people to get into science, engineering and technology and turn it into a “cool” career. While last year the focus was on the five senses, LIGHT’09 relies on the four elements, namely: air, water, fire and earth. The main location will be the Rome Planetarium. LIGHT’09 intends to sensitise the participants to the existence of gender stereotypes reducing the access and permanence of women to scientific careers. This sensitisation will be illustrated through the establishment of two different and separated entrances for men and women. As a consequence of this specific objective, gender balance will be considered in selecting the researchers who will be protagonists of the RN. The event will last from 3 pm on 25th September to 2 am of the following day. The LIGHT’09 project will last seven months. A purposely designed communication strategy will support LIGHT’09 so to ensure its success.

Keywords: science communication,sterotypes,entertaiment
Public Engagement with Research and Research Engagement with Society (PERARES)

Framework: FP7 — Capacities
Programme: Science in Society
Destination: A more dynamic governance of the science and society relationship
Action type: Coordination and support actions
Countries involved: Netherlands,Netherlands,Belgium,Germany,United Kingdom,United Kingdom,Ireland,Ireland,Spain,France,France,Sweden,Greece,Romania,Hungary,Norway,France,Italy,United Kingdom,Cyprus,Estonia,Denmark,United Kingdom,Denmark,Germany,Israel
Call:  (FP7-SCIENCE-IN-SOCIETY-2009-1, 2009)
Start date: 2010-05-01
End date: 2014-10-31
Duration (months): 54.0
Total project cost (EUR): 3085511.43
EU funding (EUR): 2728041.0
Participants: 28
Project status: CLOSED

PERARES strengthens public engagement in research (PER) by developing multi-annual action plans, involving researchers and Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the formulation of research agendas and the research process. It uses debates on science to actively articulate research requests of civil society. These are forwarded to research institutes, and results are used in a next phase of the debate. Thus, these debates move ‘upstream’ into agenda setting. For this, partners link existing debate formats with the science shop network – already linking civil society and research institutes - and start a transnational web portal for debates. This is piloted on nanotechnology, then every few months a new debate starts. These are connected to the European reflection on the grand societal challenges for the future of the ERA. To be able to answer to research requests, it is necessary to enlarge and strengthen the network of research bodies doing research for/with CSOs. Thus, nine new science shop like facilities throughout Europe are started, mentored by experienced partners. Science shop-like work is advanced by adding studies on good practices to the available knowledge base and organising workshops. Guidelines to evaluate the impact of engagement activities are developed and tested. The partners pilot and assess alternative forms of agenda-setting dialogue between researchers and CSOs, e.g. long-term periodic meetings, and direct co-operations in two important social sciences fields: Roma/Traveller’s issues and domestic violence issues. The partners also investigate the potential role of higher education institutes and funding councils in supporting co-operation with CSOs. PERARES discusses its activities with the wider community through two large conferences and ongoing dissemination. Thus, through increased, better structured co-operation, more researchers and CSOs engage in incorporating needs, concerns and knowledge of civil society in research agendas.

Keywords: public engagement,science shop,public debate,science communication,outreach,civil society organisations,nano science,domestic violence,travellers communities,evaluation,research funding