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Aqua Research Infrastructure Services for the health and protection of our unique, oceans, seas and freshwater ecosystems

Provider: HORIZON EUROPE
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: research infrastructure services, transnational access, marine freshwater ecosystems biodiversity, pollution, sustainable carbon neutral circular blue economy, data, open science, Mission Ocean
Annotation of project:
AQUARIUS will provide a highly comprehensive suite of integrated research infrastructures appropriate to addressing significant challenges for the long-term sustainability of our unique oceans, seas and freshwater ecosystems. For the first time, diverse research infrastructures will be combined to facilitate the work of researchers and key stakeholders focused on challenges and opportunities for both marine and freshwater systems. An impressive range of 57 research infrastructure services will be made available to include research vessels, mobile marine observation platforms, aircraft, drones, satellite, sensors, fixed freshwater and marine observatories and test sites, experimental facilities, and sophisticated data infrastructures. AQUARIUS will support the development phase of the EU Mission to Restore our Ocean and waters by 2030, the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, the European Green Deal, and international climate initiatives. It will also be an essential component in achieving the European Digital Twin of the Ocean and the UN Decade for Ocean Sciences. The needs of researchers will be met through a robust and transparent system of transnational access funding Calls, facilitated by centralised user-friendly access portal. The Call programme will be informed through stakeholder engagement and brokerage events. Projects to be selected for Access must convincingly integrate multiple infrastructures and contribute to the core policy objectives of Mission Ocean, that is, to protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversity; to prevent and eliminate pollution of our oceans, seas and waters; and to ensure a sustainable, carbon-neutral and circular blue economy. A thematic and geographic focus will be the hallmark of the proposed transnational Calls, aligning with the Lighthouse Regions, that is, the Baltic and the North Sea Basins, Black Sea, Atlantic/Arctic, and Mediterranean Sea along with their associated rivers.

Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change risks

Provider: HORIZON EUROPE
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: Research infrastructure, climate change, risk, hazard, exposure, vulnerability, interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, catalogue of services, transnational access, virtual access, training
Annotation of project:
Adaptation to climate change requires in-depth understanding of climate change driven risks, including their determinants (hazards, exposure and vulnerabilities) and impacts to human, production and natural systems. Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change Risks (IRISCC) is a consortium of diverse and complementary leading research infrastructures (RIs) covering disciplines from natural sciences to social sciences, across different domains and sectors. IRISCC provides scientific and knowledge services to foster cutting-edge research and evidence-based policymaking to improve Europe's resilience to climate change. IRISCC ensures a “one-stop-shop” for various user communities on climate change risk related RI services by setting up a dedicated Catalogue of services and related access management system both for granting transnational (onsite and remote) and offering virtual access. The Catalogue of services will be built through three consecutive releases, each delivering increasingly integrated services to its user communities. The IRISCC service integration will include Service Design Labs employing co-design and transdisciplinary action, and Service Demonstrators benchmarking the integrated cross-RI services. In addition to services aimed towards the scientific community, IRISCC will offer knowledge services aimed towards policymakers and other stakeholders. This is done together with risk management platforms. The research enabled by IRISCC contributes to future reports on climate change effects (IPCC, IPBES) as well as policy- and decision-making to meet the targets of climate adaptation strategies. IRISCC contributes to training a new generation of scientists to efficiently use RI services and for data stewardship. Data from IRISCC will be open and made available in compliance with FAIR principles and linked to European initiatives such as EOSC. Strong links will be created between IRISCC and current and future efforts under Horizon Europe.

Innovative Toolbox empowering effective CAP governance towards EU ambitions

Provider: HORIZON EUROPE
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: xxx
Annotation of project:
The New Delivery Model established in Regulation EU 2115/2021 entails significant changes to Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) governance with the introduction of Strategic Plans and new monitoring, review and evaluation requirements. The CAP is expected to contribute significantly to the Green Deal’s ambitions, securing the achievement of sustainability and resilience goals for the EU’s Agri-food systems. Innovative governance models are essential to enable result-based policymaking to deliver the best policy pathways to facilitate the green transition. Tools4CAP will (1) support the implementation of National Strategic Plans 2023-2027, and (2) lay the foundations for sound preparation of Post-2027 Strategic Plans. Accordingly, Tools4CAP establishes a flexible and participatory Coordination & Support Action designed to boost learning, exchange processes, and adoption of innovative solutions and good practices for the design, monitoring and evaluation of CAP Strategic Plans. Tools4CAP’s methods and tools will cover three key areas: (1) quantitative modelling tools for ex-ante and ex-post evaluations, (2) participatory and multi-governance decision tools, and (3) novel data and monitoring solutions. The project will deliver a comprehensive inventory of methods and tools used in the 27 Member States, methodological guidelines on innovative solutions and a Handbook of good practices. Results will be integrated in a Capacity Building Toolkit, designed to enhance science-policy interfaces. Tools4CAP utilises a Stakeholder Engagement Platform to boost bottom-up adaptation of innovative methods and tools. It will establish a Replication Lab to demonstrate their use in 10 Member States and to promote their uptake across the EU-27. The project will also set up a Capacity Building Hub to help end-users (ministries, management authorities, paying agencies, other stakeholders) reinforce their capacity to use innovative tools, including models used by the European Commission.

Methan-e-scape

Provider: Grantová agentura České republiky
Recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: greenhouse gas; stream; methane ebullition; microorganisms; sediment
Annotation of project:
Freshwaters are significant sources of methane (CH4) to the atmosphere but streams and rivers have only recently come into focus. The high spatiotemporal variability of fluvial CH4 ebullition, a major pathway of CH4 emission, hinders our ability to estimate the contribution to the global CH4 budget. Hence the proposed project aims to decipher the magnitude and drivers of CH4 ebullition, its production, and the involved biological processes in stream sediments. Four sampling campaigns over one year in six streams (three in the Czech Republic and three in Austria) will be conducted. In the second year, laboratory incubations to study environmental drivers of CH4 production in stream sediments are planned. In parallel, field measurements of CH4 fluxes from various components of a floodplain forest ecosystem together with the eddy covariance data analyses will be done to quantify the contribution of aquatic versus terrestrial habitats to the landscape CH4 fluxes. The obtained results will significantly improve the estimation of total CH4 fluxes from streams.

How to SAVE WATER in the increasing drought prone agricultural cross-border region of Weinviertel and Southern Moravia

Provider: Interreg V-A Austria - Czech Republic
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: xxx
Annotation of project:
The ongoing climate change poses major challenges for the border region of Lower Austria and the South Moravian Region, especially in the Dyje river basin and neighboring regions. The water balance of this important and shared river catchment is already under strain, and as the dry years of 2015, 2017 and 2018 have shown, despite a robust water management system, the region has experienced massive economic damage caused by drought, particularly in agriculture, but also in forestry. The agricultural drought, which in 2018 in particular also almost immediately turned into a hydrological drought, has shown to the public administration, farmers and water managers how complicated it is (Interreg VI-A) Austria-Czechia ATCZ00048 - SaveWater Version 2.0, 11.08.2023 4 to meet the water resource demands of the different sectors during an emergency situation. Under these circumstances one of the principal rivers of the regions providing many valuable ecosystem services in the regional river catchments itself has been compromised. Moreover, projections of future climate change show that a similar situation is more likely to recur in the next few decades than at any time in the past two centuries. For this reason, there is a need to exploit opportunities for interdisciplinary and transboundary cooperation and to increase the resilience of the whole region in respect to increasing climatic water balance deficits. This project has been initiated by the Lower Austrian and South Moravian Chambers of Agriculture with the strategic cooperation of the Strategic Partners of the Government of Lower Austria, the South Moravian Region and the Morava River Basin Authority. The project has three main objectives: a) In cooperation with the two agrarian chambers and academic institutions, compile a catalogue of measures and examples of good practice aimed at specific and water-resource enhancing landscape management within the study area; b) Propose and quantify feasible and farmer-implementable measures and their proper mix to increase their resilience to drought and assess their impact on water resources in the study catchments; c) Propose and examine the feasibility of innovative and hitherto unconsidered measures such as feasible water retention or water harvesting options to better manage existing water resources and possible ways to enhance these resources in the region. The present project will make use of the outputs of two prior projects addressing the actual target region, namely the Interreg CZ-AT project "Impacts of climate change on the Dyje river basin" and the TAČR project "Adapt-Dyje - Development of a tool for identification of the main risks of water resources management in the Dyje river basin and methodology for their systemic solution under the conditions of a changing climate". These projects developed a system tool in the form of a digital twin of the Dyje river basin. However, specific measures such as the role of windbreaks, strip cultivation, increasing the number of retention measures (re-activating historical ponds, water harvesting through small-scale dams, rewetting of swamps etc.) or optimizing field crop management, mulching and cultivation methods were not and could not be assessed because of the lack of involvement of farmers from both sides of the border. Thus, the key players responsible for about 2/3 of the landscape-evapotranspiration of our target region, i.e. farmers, have so far not been involved in the formulation of measures that are feasible from their point of view. Similarly, the potential hidden in the strengthening of water management systems and their interconnections has not yet been comprehensively and substantively assessed for the entire border region. So far only measures to optimize water reserves and resources have been considered on the respective side of the border. While the measures resulting from the implementation of the first two objectives will be immediately implementable, the output of the third objective will be available as a basis for strategic discussions and cooperation between the public administrations of the two regions. The outputs of the project will be both specific methodological procedures and tools for decision-support of single or combined retention measures/water-saving options developed for farmers, training of target stakeholders (e.g. farmers and companies, advisers) by the two agrarian chambers, and the outputs of comprehensive basin analyses that will combine the benefits of the measures in the area with the quantification of the potential benefits of the measures to strengthen the water management infrastructure.

Natural and anthropogenic georisks

Provider: Ministerstvo školství mládeže a tělovýchovy
Coordinating recipient: Univerzita Karlova v Praze
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: geophysics, natural risks and hazards, anthropogenic risks, climate, climate change, meteorology, atmosphere, interdisciplinarity, geosciences, environmental approaches, mathematical approaches, modelling, society, socio-economic impacts
Annotation of project:
The main research objective of the project Natural and anthropogenic georisks is to understand natural and man-made threats and risks in the Earth's upper spheres, to explain their causes and to quantify their potential impacts on human society and infrastructures. Thus, the project should result not only in a fundamental understanding of the mechanisms of these processes, but also in a proposal for their improved monitoring, possible minimisation and prediction, including mitigation of their negative effects.

Enabling use of biodiversity monitoring data in local conservation management

Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: Biodiversity Monitoring, Data Integration, Land-Use Management, Conservation Management, Remote Sensing
Annotation of project:
1. Identify needs and questions of local land-use and conservation management that can be informed by biodiversity monitoring data, and describe social challenges of a data integration. 2. Match data demands with existing species and habitat data across spatio-temporal scales, identify gaps and assess capacities to fill gaps via remote sensing-based biodiversity monitoring. 3. Enable data integration across scales by leveraging instruments and capacities in local decision-making for land-use and conservation management.

Impact of climate change on evapotranspiration and landscape water balance in the context of water security and sustainability

Provider: Ministerstvo zemědělství
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: evaporation from water bodies; evapotranspiration from landscape; climate change; water resources security; sustainability of water use; adaptation measures
Annotation of project:
The project aims to provide the most accurate quantification of the landscape water balance of the Czech Republic with emphasis on actual evapotranspiration (ETa) and sustainable water resources security under climate change in the 21st century as a fundamental basis for the authorities performing river basin management and water planning under the Water Act. Sub-objectives include (i) determination of evaporation from water bodies and littoral ETa through in-situ measurements, historical data and remote sensing methods (RS); (ii) in-situ and RS measurements of landscape ETa; (iii) hydrological modeling of future climate ETa; (iv) assessing adaptation measures impacts on ETa and water balance; (v) clarifying and unifying terminology to avoid misinterpretations in water management.

Drought and frost resistance of non-traditional fruit species, their cultivation and use in the conditions of the Czech Republic

Provider: Ministerstvo zemědělství
Coordinating recipient: Mendelova univerzita v Brně
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: tolerance; drought; frost; cornelian cherry; fig tree; quince; elderberry; mulberry
Annotation of project:
The goal is to evaluate the growing and the usage of non-traditional fruit species (mulberry, fig tree, elderberry, cornelian cherry, quince) with higher tolerance to drought and frost in accordance with the key area of response to global changes in the biosphere. By using new measuring techniques of resistance and by monitoring of biological properties, comprehensive information on the resistance of selected species to drought and frost will be obtained. The intention is also to evaluate the possibilities of propagation, to propose novel procedures for processing fruit and to determine the health status of fruit species. The output will be practical information about the suitability of the species in the conditions of changing climate, together with the possibility of fruit processing.

Evaluation of the risks of real sublethal doses of pesticides in food sources of solitary bees for the stabilization of natural ecosystem of pollinators with focus on fruit production

Provider: Ministerstvo zemědělství
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: Biodiversity; solitary bees; Osmia; pesticides; horticulture; OMICS; proteomics
Annotation of project:
The goal of the project is to contribute to securing sufficient pollination capacity of solitary bee populations for sustainable fruit production. The particular aims are: 1) Stabilization of fruit production by means of natural community of solitary bees. 2) Determining the effect of the realistic pesticide exposures and their impact on solitary bee populations 3) Evaluation of the risks of real exposures of pesticides and their tank-mixes in the food of solitary bees on their development and survival, focusing on the potential synergistic effect of active substances and the negative effect on the gut microbiome of bees. 4) Reporting outputs with application in fruit growing practice