Collective projects

The Paris Agreement notes the importance of taking action to ensure the integrity of all ecosystems and the protection of biodiversity in the context of combatting climate change and adapting to its impacts. An improved understanding of the interactions and feedbacks between ecological processes and climate change, together with evidence-based guidance, is crucial for the development of appropriate solution-oriented strategies and measures for biodiversity conservation and cost-effective ecosystems-based climate change adaptation and mitigation.

As climatic changes increasingly place populations under pressure, human beings are already adapting. However, less developed countries – particularly in Africa – are often less resilient to climate change and require the deployment of appropriate support to adaptation, including in the form of bespoke climate services tailored to users' needs. There is some evidence that climate change may already be playing a role in shaping population migration patterns around the world (e.g. Africa to Europe).

There is a growing demand for water from various economic activities and increasing stress on natural water sources. To secure water for our society, there is therefore a need to make available alternative water resources of various qualities and which are appropriate for different functions and multiple users, and to better exploit water resources and all the valuable substances that could be obtained through the wastewater treatment and reuse process.

Unsustainable, non-resilient urbanisation patterns, the expansion or neglect of urban areas have caused the fragmentation, depletion and destruction of habitats, biodiversity loss and the degradation of ecosystems and their services.

The France-Berkeley Fund invites applications for up to $15,000 in seed funding for new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and their counterparts in France.

The various forms of cultural tourism in Europe are important drivers of growth, jobs and economic development of European regions and urban areas. They also contribute, by driving intercultural understanding and social development in Europe through discovering various types of cultural heritage, to the understanding of other peoples' identities and values. However, although cultural tourism by its nature invites cross border regional and local cooperation, its full innovation potential in this respect is not yet fully explored and exploited.

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The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) is a collaboration among key humanities and social science funders in Europe and the Americas. T-AP aims to enhance transnational research collaboration and has identified, with the help of the social sciences and humanities research communities, a series of common challenges and strategic priority areas where such collaboration will bring added value.

Ce dispositif a pour objectif le soutien :

• de projets interdisciplinaires dans une logique d’aménagement du territoire en favorisant la collaboration inter-laboratoires ou la collaboration interdisciplinaire : projets « envergure »
• de projets portant sur de nouvelles idées ou niches amenées à être porteuses tant scientifiquement qu’en termes d’impact socio-économique : projets « amorçage ».

La formation par la recherche avec le financement de jeunes chercheurs notamment au travers de contrats doctoraux est également soutenue.

La procédure d’appels à projets de recherche (APR) est un dispositif central de la politique régionale de soutien à la recherche. Une campagne d’appels à projets est lancée en 2025.

Le présent APR d’intérêt régional, lancé directement par la Région, concerne des projets qui entrent dans au moins une des catégories suivantes