BNP Paribas Foundation Call for Research Projects on Climate Change
Climate & Biodiversity Initiative
By launching its “Climate & Biodiversity Initiative” programme in 2010 to support international research teams that study the interactions between climate change and biodiversity erosion, the BNP Paribas Foundation has a been a pioneer and a leader in the field since.
As two of today’s most important challenges, the programme therefore aims at increasing knowledge about interactions between climate and biodiversity, about climate system dysfunction and evaluating the consequences on our environment and societies that would allow everyone to change their behaviour.
The research projects supported by the BNP Paribas Foundation through its Climate & Biodiversity Initiative are selected through a call for projects every 3 years. The rigorous selection process of each call for projects has a specific governance. Indeed, the Foundation is backed by its Scientific committee composed of world-class researchers: they play a key role in selecting the most promising and outstanding research projects.
In 2022, a new call for projects launches in Europe in order to select research projects that better our understanding of climate and biodiversity interactions and their impact on society. With a total budget of €6 million over 3 years to finance and put forward between 5 and 9 projects, the ‘Climate & Biodiversity Initiative’ involves a call for projects (taking place every 3 years) and a rigorous selection process conducted by leading figures in their fields of research.
To be eligible, projects must comply with the following criteria:
- The project must be related to a scientific research project (fundamental and/or applied research)
- Its subject must be on both climate and biodiversity
- The project investigator’s organisation must based in the European Economic Area (EEA)
The key steps:
First Stage
- 17 February – 20 April 2022: receipt of full applications
- 27 April – 15 June 2022: evaluation of applications by BNP Paribas
- 16 June 2022: announcement of pre-selected projects
Second stage
- 17 June – 30 September 2022: evaluation of pre-selected projects by the Scientific committee:
- 22 November 2022: final selection by the BNP Paribas Foundation's Executive committee
- Announcement: December 2022 or January 2023
