The National Science Centre (NCN), in collaboration with the European Biodiversity Partnership (Biodiversa+), has launched a new call for international research projects on biodiversity and transformative change (BiodivTransform and Transformative Change).
Projects must focus on comprehending the compromises and links between the worldwide crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, and pollution. The call embedded in the “Supporting societal transformation for the sustainable use and management of biodiversity” programme aims to comprehend transformation process that may halt and reverse biodiversity decline.
Funding may be requested by international consortia comprising at least 3 research teams from at least 3 countries participating in the call. The principal investigator of the Polish team must be at least a PhD holder.
Countries participating in the call: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Brazil, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Israel, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tunisia, Turkey and Faroe Islands.
Submission deadline for pre-proposals is 8 November 2024, 3 p.m. and for full-proposals, 11 April 2025, 3 p.m. The principal investigator of the Polish research team is required to draft an NCN proposal for the Polish part of the project in the OSF submission system.
The call results will be published at the end of September 2025.
Please, read the call text and call documents on the website of the Biodiversa+ Partnership and on the NCN website.
BiodivTransform Call Text