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JPI Climate launched a joint transnational call SOLSTICE Enabling Societal Transformation in the Face of Climate Change in 2019
Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges facing society. It will increasingly impact society at all levels and across sectors. Climate change modifies the way we live, consume, and generally engage in society. JPI Climate believes insights from across the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) community are necessary to enable and accelerate positive transformation in the face of climate change.
That is why JPI Climate launched a joint transnational call for proposals: SOLSTICE – Enabling Societal Transformation in the Face of Climate Change
SOLSTICE is a joint transnational call for proposals. JPI Climate invited the SSH community to take the lead and to submit proposals that address the societal aspects of climate change. Building on an emerging trend of research, SOLSTICE offered a transnational framework with higher levels of funding than before. The rationale for this call was outlined in the JPI Climate’s 2019 White Paper on societal transformation in the face of climate change.
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The Call was seeking interdisciplinary contributions from consortia, which consisted of scientists from at least three participating countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Norway and the United Kingdom.
The call addressed three themes:
- Social justice and participation
- Sense making, cultural meaning and risk perceptions
- Transformative finance and economy
SOLSTICE offered an opportunity for all SSH communities form interdisciplinary combinations and contribute to a better understanding of how climate change affects society, engage with societal actors through innovative approaches and trigger transformational change.
The selection procedure was launched in the fall of 2019 and successfully closed on 3rd of February, 2020. Our evaluation procedure concluded on the 18th of June, 2020 with a meeting by an independent panel of experts. The final decision was taken by the SOLSTICE funding organisations.
The projects are financed by the SOLSTICE funding organisations, consisting of 10 European countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Italy, Ireland, Latvia, Norway and the United Kingdom) who partnered to offer this opportunity.
The call had an indicative budget of 6.900.000€ to support international research projects of a duration of up to 3 years. The overall objective of this call was to enable societal transformation in the face of climate change.
In total, 7 projects have now been selected. To find out more about SOLSTICE funded projects, please click here
Check out the video of Dr. Frank McGovern, the Chair of JPI Climate, endorsing the SOLSTICE call.
Funding agencies
French National Research Agency
Irish Environmental Protection Agency
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
The Research Council of Norway
Austrian Research Promotion Agency
Academy of Finland
The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Economic and Social Research Council
Ministry of Education, University and Research
Programme consortium
University of Bergen
Université catholique de Louvain
University of Clermont Auvergne
University of East Anglia
University of the West of England
Tampere University
National University of Ireland
University of Genova
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
JOANNEUM RESEARCH
Technical Research Centre of Finland
University Roma Tre
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
University College London
University of Graz
Grantham Institute
Czech Academy of Sciences
London School of Economics & Political Science
Global Change Research Centre Czech Academy of Sciences
University of East Anglia
Lille Catholic University
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
University of Bergen
Eurac Research
University of Sussex
University of Tours
National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts
University of Paris-Est Créteil
Middlesex University
University of Antwerp
Finnish Environment Institute
Documents
- Report
Final Report CCC-CATAPULT: Challenging the Climate Crisis: Children’s Agency to Tackle Policy Underpinned by Learning for Transformation
- Report
Final Report SOLARIS: SOLidarity in climate change Adaptation policies: towards more socio-spatial justice in the face of multiple RISks
- Report
Final Report Just Scapes: Environmental justice analysis to advance rural landscape transformations in the face of climate change
- Report
Final Report ROLES: Responsive Organising for Low Emission Societies
- Report
Final Report JUSTDECARB: Socially Just and Politically Robust Decarbonisation: A Knowledge Base and Toolkit for Policymakers
- Report
Final Report 202CM: Overcoming Obstacles and Disincentives to Climate Change Mitigation: A cross-cutting approach by human and social sciences
- Document
SOLSTICE Final Event – agenda
- Document
Guidelines for SOLSTICE Call applicants
- Video
ECCA2021 Building back better
- Video
Frank McGovern announces SOLSTICE Call
- Brochure
SOLSTICE: Enabling Societal Transformation in the Face of Climate Change
- Presentation
SOLSTICE Graphic recording
- Video
What is SOLSTICE Call?
- Document
White Paper: Operationalising knowledge on and for societal transformations in the face of climate change
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