PROGRAMME SUMMARY

The Water4All partnership started in 2022 under the auspices of the European Union Horizon Europe programme for research and innovation, to concentrate research and innovation on water in Europe and beyond. Water4All’s Vision is to “boost the systemic transformations and changes across the entire research – water innovation pipeline, fostering the matchmaking between problem owners and solution providers for ensuring water security for all in the long term”.

To strengthen the water Research Development and Innovation (RD&I) collaboration, to produce and to share top class water-related knowledge and data, Water4All will launch a series of annual Joint Transnational Calls (JTCs). The topics for the calls will be drawn from the water challenges identified in the Water4All Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and will pool national financial resources through the participation of ministries, authorities and funding organisations.

In line with the strategic objectives of Water4All, the results of the projects will contribute to the implementation of evidence-based, global, EU and national water management policies and strategies, within the frameworks of the Green Deal, the Water Framework Directive, Just Transition and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Furthermore, governance playing a key role in water challenges, the 2022 Joint Transnational Call will seek for innovative governance models, and enhanced participation of stakeholders in water management issues related to extreme events.

Call topics

1 – Resilience, adaptation and mitigation to hydroclimatic extreme events 

2 – Tools for water management in the context of hydroclimatic extreme events 

3 – Improved water governance in the context of hydroclimatic extreme events and international contexts 

View full call text on Water4All website

FUNDING SPECIFICS

Max. FNR Budget: 350.000 EUR 

Total budget allocated for this Call by all partners & with EU support (provisional): 34 MEUR.

• The requested total budget of proposals is only limited by the number of eligible partners and by the budget of each partner. 

• Consortium: must be composed of at least a minimum of three eligible partners that request funding from participating Funding Partner Organisations from three different countries. 
• The workload distribution within a consortium must be balanced, and no partner (including a self-funded partner) should have more than 50% of person months. 

APPLICATION INFORMATION

• Please note that pre and full proposals must be submitted to both the FNR and the collaborating funding agency. This includes both the FNR INTER documents and a pdf of the call documents submitted to the collaborating funding agency. 

• Applications submitted to the FNR where the FNR is not lead agency (i.e. INTER applications) must be submitted no later than 7 days after the submission to the collaborating funding agency. 
• Applications submitted to the FNR must be submitted via the FNR Online Grant Management System.