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Du 26.09.2024 au 05.11.2024
Horizon Implementation Days
La Commission européenne organise entre septembre et novembre trois demies journées dédiées à la mise en œuvre des projets Horizon Europe.
ExpectedOutcome:
In line with the objectives of the European Green Deal, the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030, and existing EU nature legislation (Birds and Habitats Directives), project results will contribute to the following impact of destination “biodiversity and ecosystem services”: “to plan, manage and expand terrestrial and marine protected areas and improve the conservation status of species and habitats, based on up-to-date knowledge and solutions”. More specifically, project results will improve the setting of conservation objectives and measures for EU-protected habitats and species, thereby also ensuring that the network of Natura 2000 sites enable the maintenance or restoration of favourable conservation status.
Results of individual projects are expected to contribute to at least one of the following expected outcomes:
Scope:
Proposals should address Area A or Area B as follows. The Area should be clearly indicated on the application.
Area A: Improving the conservation status of habitats and species protected under the Habitats and/or Birds Directive.
Successful proposals should:
Area B: Improving the conservation status of huntable bird species listed in Annex II of the Birds Directive.
Successful proposals should:
Proposals should closely follow and ensure consistency with any ongoing or future relevant policy developments, with a particular focus on the voluntary EU targets for improving the status of species and habitats[4] and increasing the coverage of protected areas[5], as well as in relation to the upcoming Commission proposal for legally binding restoration targets.
Proposals should earmark the necessary resources for cooperation and networking activities. They are expected to link with relevant projects such as EuropaBON, LIFE Integrated Projects and LIFE Strategic Nature Projects as well as with relevant projects under Horizon Europe topics, such as HORIZON-CL6-2021-BIODIV-01-02: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Collaboration with the European partnership on biodiversity Biodiversa+ should be explored, as needed.
The possible participation of the JRC would help ensure that the methodologies proposed can support environmental compliance assurance, particularly by leveraging geospatial intelligence.
[1]State of Nature in the EU: Results from reporting under the nature directives 2013-2018: State of nature in the EU — European Environment Agency (europa.eu) National summary dashboards - Habitats Directive – Art.17: National summary dashboards - Habitats Directive – Art.17 — European Environment Agency (europa.eu)National summary dashboards - Birds Directive – Art.12: National summary dashboards - Birds Directive – Art.12 — European Environment Agency (europa.eu)
[2]Article 17 Reporting Habitats Directive: https://nature-art17.eionet.europa.eu/article17/Article 17 National Summaries: CIRCABC - MS National Summaries (europa.eu)Article 12 Reporting Birds Directive: https://nature-art12.eionet.europa.eu/article12/Article 12 National Summaries: CIRCABC - MS National Summaries (europa.eu)
[3]habitats - Library (europa.eu)
[4]Guidance to Member States on how to select and prioritise species/habitats for the 30% conservation improvement target under the strategy: biodiversity_nature - Library (europa.eu)
[5]Commission Staff Working Document: Criteria and guidance for protected areas designations: biodiversity_nature - Library (europa.eu)