Activities
Activities of JPI Climate: joint calls, coordination and support actions
JPI Climate Activities
JPI Climate aims to foster the development of coherent research activities across its membership whilst maintaining creative diversity. It aims to facilitate cross-border interactions and enable a broader level of research and innovation. JPI Climate will help ensure maximum impact from European research efforts to respond to information and analysis needs that arise from the challenge of climate variability and change.
In terms of process it will specifically contribute to:
1. Enhanced societal relevance. JPI Climate´s multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary nature will consolidate, strengthen and amplify current climate research and its impacts, delivering usable knowledge for decision support at all levels across public, private or community sectors.
2. Enhanced cooperation and alignment of research. Intensified cooperation between researchers from different countries, scientific traditions, disciplines and perspectives enhances
innovation and scientific quality. Enhanced alignment of research should improve the efficiency and utility of research investments, including human resources and capacity.
3. Long-term continuity. An international collaborative joint programming initiative over decades can transcend the limitations of short-term research programmes and projects, and provide more stability and continuity in research collaboration, essential considering the
challenges society is facing.
4. Higher effectiveness. Transnational research collaboration avoids fragmentation and duplication of research, takes advantage of diversity and cultures, and can use resources more effectively, through national alignment or transnational support, by sharing and jointly developing
new data from observational networks and modelling, experiments, tools, methods and research infrastructures.
5. Stronger global position. A well-coordinated JPI Climate will provide a competitive edge in the global climate change science arena. By providing strong science support, it can also foster Europe’s role in international climate policy development and enhance North-South research
collaboration.
These five core value-added elements are to be seen in the context of JPI Climate Governance Principles: sustainability, stakeholder orientation, adaptability, transparency, and cost efficiency. It is also intended that the activities implemented in response to this SRIA will draw upon the JPI Climate’s guidelines on Open Access and Open Knowledge.
JPI Climate Joint Calls
As a tool for alignment of research between the member countries, JPI Climate has implemented some of the priorities identified in its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda through a set of Joint Transnational Calls. To-date, there have been 6 calls:
- 2019 – SOLSTICE – Enabling Societal Transformation in the Face of Climate Change
- 2019 – JPI Climate & JPI Oceans Joint Transnational Call on Next Generation Climate Science in Europe for Oceans
- 2018 – AXIS – Joint Call for Transnational Collaborative Research Projects
- 2016 – ERA4CS – Joint Call on Researching and Advancing Climate Services Development
- 2015 – Call for Climate Services Collaborative Research action on Climate Predictability and Inter-regional Linkages (together with the Belmont Forum)
- 2013 – Call for Transnational Collaborative Research Projects
Why the Award?
Completed activity in 2021. Read more about The winner of the JPI Climate Excellence Award for Social Impact 2021
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More than 60 research projects have been funded by JPI Climate since 2011. These funded research projects mainly aim to foster development of coherent research activities and to maximize impact of climate change research in Europe and beyond. In this context, close collaboration with stakeholders is key in these projects.
The JPI Climate Excellence Award for Social Impact is aiming to celebrate the research team that made an excellent performance in creating social impact via its JPI Climate funded research project. After so many years and several research calls, we want to put a spotlight on one of our best performing teams and promote their best performance to create social impact via research to the European and international climate change community.
The Award
The winning team will receive:
- The JPI Climate Excellence Award for Social Impact with long-term online recognition as best performing team on the JPI Climate website – the virtual AWARD wall
- Online promotion package including:
- Presentation of the research team and their social impact via news and social media channels, targeting the European and international community
- Graphical support package including a project illustration to showcase their “story of change“
- Keynote speech at the next JPI Climate Scoping Forum Symposium
Who is eligible to submit a nomination?
Individual researchers or research teams that have been funded by the following JPI Climate calls (with demonstrable first results) are eligible to be nominated for the JPI Climate Excellence Award for Social Impact:
- 2019 – SOLSTICE Call on Enabling Societal Transformation in the Face of Climate Change
- 2019 – JPI Climate & JPI Oceans Joint Transnational Call on Next Generation Climate Science in Europe for Oceans
- 2018 – AXIS Joint Call for Transnational Collaborative Research Projects
- 2016 – ERA4CS Joint Call on Researching and Advancing Climate Services Development
- 2015 – Call for Climate Services Collaborative Research action on Climate Predictability and Inter-regional Linkages (together with the Belmont Forum)
- 2013 – Call for Transnational Collaborative Research Projects
Submission procedure
Submission starts from October 19 onwards and will be closed on November 19, 2021, 12:00 (GMT+1). Submissions focus mainly on two components:
- A description of the activities and social impacts
- Three testimonials from stakeholders and target groups that have benefited from the project, including their signatures.
The jury consists out of representatives from JPI Climate and its wider community that are representing sectors of science, policy, business and society. The jury will evaluate all submissions between November 22 and December 3. The winning team will be announced by December 15, 2021.
Evaluation criteria
We will score the submissions based on 2 criteria:
- The significance of the social impact via research activities and research results
- Demonstrable societal impacts and contributions to societal transformation for resilience and sustainability
Submission form (click to go to the submission form)
Enquiries
For enquiries and questions, please contact ingrid.coninx@wur.nl
*Submissions of good quality may be contacted for permission to include in the JPI Climate database of good practices.
Acknowledgment
The JPI Climate Excellence Award for Social Impact is organised by SINCERE (Strengthening INternational Cooperation on climatE change Research), a EC H2020 Coordination and Support Action (Grant agreement ID: 776609), that aims to strengthen the delivery of the JPI Climate Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), building on existing collaborations, such as with other JPIs, the business sector and global financial institutions, and other key international research, policy and societal actors.
JPI Climate – Coordination and Support Action (CSA)
This CSA was concluded in 2015.
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JPI Climate contributes to building the European Research Area through enhanced cooperation and coordination of national research programmes. These long-term research activities are to be developed by a strong and efficient management structure. Therefore, the Coordination and Support Action (CSA) is set up to support the development of this JPI Climate into a viable, mature and sustained joint research effort.
The JPI Climate CSA is integrated within the JPI and enables the JPI Climate to realize its goals of achieving a competitive advantage for Europe by improving the knowledge base for climate action, informing on-going international negotiations and enhancing decision-making capacities on various levels with regards to climate change.
The JPI Climate CSA supports a range of activities: joint research funding, alignment of national research programmes, workshops, academic courses, facilitation of research exchange programmes, and targeted policy support actions. Collaboration is pursued with other JPIs, research programmes, networks and initiatives at member state and European level with an eye to extending the JPI Climate membership base.
All member countries of the JPI Climate, except for Spain, are also partners of JPI Climate CSA, which decreases management and coordination efforts and risks of miscommunication.
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