This document provides information about a Horizon 2020 call for proposals on "Climate Services for Africa". It summarizes the key details of the call, including that it aims to develop climate services tailored to user needs in Africa, focusing on at least two sectors from a list that includes water, energy, food security, land use, health and infrastructure. Funded projects will need to engage end users and demonstrate how their tools and applications can enhance climate change adaptation strategies in Africa. The expected impacts include better policymaking for adaptation and increased climate resilience. Eligible proposals must include at least three participants from two different African countries. The indicative budget is 5-7 million Euros.

1. Natasa Asik
Project Adviser, EASME B.2.2
H2020 Climate Action
Climate Services for Africa
Brussels, 27.11.2018

2. Content
• What’s EASME?
• What’s Horizon 2020?
• H2020 Call: Climate Services for Africa

3. EASME
• One of the six Executive
Agencies of the European
Commission
• Managing EU funding
programmes
• Ensuring that actions
funded by these
programmes deliver results
and contribute to policy
implementation and
development.

4. Horizon 2020 -three priorities
Excellent
science
Industrial
leadership
Societal
challenges

5. Societal challenges € 29.7 Bn
1. Health, demographic change & well-being € 7.5 Bn
2. Food security, sustainable agriculture & forestry, marine maritime & inland
water research & the Bioeconomy
€ 3.8 Bn
3. Secure, clean & efficient energy € 5.9 Bn
4. Smart, green & integrated transport € 6.3 Bn
5. Climate action, environment resource efficiency & raw materials € 3.1 Bn
6. Europe in a changing world – Inclusive innovative & reflective societies € 1.3 Bn
7. Secure societies – Protecting freedom & security of Europe & its citizens € 1.7 Bn
Horizon 2020 budget
(2014-2020)

6. H2020 –SC5 Climate Action, Environment,
Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials
Raw Materials
Climate Action and
Earth Observation
Strategic themes:
• Climate services
• Decarbonisation of
the economy
• The Arctic dimension
• Earth Observation
within GEO

7. Call "Building a low-carbon, climate resilient
future: climate actions in support of the
Paris Agreement”
• LC-CLA-05-2019: Human Dynamics of Climate Change
(a) Climate Services for Africa
(b) Climate and Human Migration
• https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal
/desktop/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/lc-cla-
05-2019.html

8. Specific challenge
• Less developed countries, particularly in Africa, are often less
resilient to climate change and require support to adaptation
• With a focus on users’ needs, there is a need to develop bespoke
climate services for these communities
• Make use of the wealth of socio-economic and geophysical
data to better understand the impacts of climate change in Africa
• Climate change is border neutral – working together towards
effective adaptation as climate change increasingly places
populations under pressure

9. Climate Services for Africa
• Actions should exploit new, relevant
climate data
• made available by Copernicus and other
relevant sources (such as GEOSS)
• and create dedicated climate services
for Africa
• For at least two of the following sectors:
water, energy, food security, land use,
health and infrastructure
CLIMATE
SERVICES
HEALTH WATER ENERGY
LAND USE
FOOD
SECURITY
INFRA
STRUCTURE

10. Climate Services for Africa
• Actions should develop and deliver tools/applications which demonstrate
clear end-user engagement, consultation and participation, and which
enhance planning and implementation of climate adaptation strategies
in Africa.
• Actions should consider activities addressed by other initiatives such as
the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS), Copernicus, and
development cooperation activities, and provide added value.
• Actions should further consider the EU-Africa Research and Innovation
Partnership on Climate Change and Sustainable Energy.

11. Expected Impacts
• Better policy making for climate adaptation in partner
countries and Europe.
• Supporting international scientific assessments such as the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Assessment reports.
• Stronger adaptive capacity and climate resilience.

12. Climate Services for Africa
• International cooperation is encouraged
Eligibility and admissibility conditions:
Proposals shall include at least three participants from at least
two different African countries.
The participation of social sciences and humanities
disciplines is encouraged to address the complex challenges of
this topic, including challenges associated with relevant gender
issues.

13. • Indicative budget: 5-7 Mio
• Type of Action: Research & Innovation Action (RIA)
!!! RIAs fund activities aiming to establish new knowledge and/or
explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product,
process, service or solution.
Climate Services for Africa

14. More information
• Participant Portal
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desk
top/en/opportunities/h2020/topics/lc-cla-05-
2019.html
• Work Programme 2018 -2020
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2
020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-
climate_en.pdf
• Become an independent expert
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desk
top/en/experts/index.html

15. More information
• Partner Search Facility
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desk
top/en/organisations/partner_search.html
• Research Enquiry Service
https://ec.europa.eu/info/research-and-
innovation/contact/research-enquiry-service-and-
participant-validation_en
• National Contact Points
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desk
top/en/support/national_contact_points.html

16. THANK YOU
FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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Natasa Asik, EASME B2.2, H2020 Climate Action
EASME-H2020-CLIMATE-ACTION@ec.europa.eu