Work Programme 2012 COOPERATION Theme 6 Environment (including climate change) Challenge 6.4 Protecting citizens from environmental hazards European Commission Research & Innovation FP7 - Cooperation - Environment Andrea Tilche Head of Unit: Climate change and natural hazards 27/02/2019

Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6 Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6.4 Protecting citizens from environmental hazards Overall aim To develop innovative knowledge and applicable tools aiming at risk reduction from environmental hazards, including extreme and sudden large catastrophic events, as well as noxious elements present in the environment that may affect human health In particular, the call will explore: How to improve the resilience of societies to major catastrophic events through new risk-management partnerships The establishment of long-term monitoring experiments in geologically active zones, as European contribution to the international “Supersite” initiative How to integrate large amounts of environmental exposure and human health data – the concept of “exposome” Indicative budget: 42 M€ 27/02/2019

Challenge 6.4 Protecting citizens from environmental hazards Sub-activities involved Sub-activity 6.1.3 Natural hazards Sub-activity 6.1.2 Environment and health Sub-activity 6.3.1 Environmental technologies Sub-activity 6.4.1 Earth and ocean observation systems and monitoring methods 27/02/2019

Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6 Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6.4 Protecting citizens from environmental hazards ENV.2012.6.4-1 Improving the resilience of society to catastrophic natural hazards through new risk-management partnerships Goals: To strengthen the economic and societal resilience to potential catastrophic disasters and to improve preparedness, prevention and mitigation through more appropriate risk assessment and new management schemes. Proposals should address: For key representative geological and/or hydro-meteorological hazards, the development of new probabilistic hazards and risk scenarios and improve the methodologies for pan-European risk assessment and for estimating disaster impacts New ways of risk governance and management responses: there is the need to improve or redefine the respective roles or possible forms of partnerships between the private sector including the (re)insurance and finance sectors, the relevant authorities and stakeholders. 27/02/2019

Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6 Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6.4 Protecting citizens from environmental hazards ENV.2012.6.4-1 (cont.) Expected impact: Contribution to a new pan-European harmonised risk assessment scheme Elaboration of a new risk management governance approach Support to EU relevant policies and to the UN Disaster Risk Reduction Hyogo framework for action. Reduction of risks of major economic losses through innovative non-structural mitigation measures and new public-private partnerships on financial and insurance schemes Additional information: Collaborative Project Two-stage evaluation. One or more proposals can be selected Projects linked through a coordination mechanism defined during the negotiation stage Max. EU contribution per project <6 M€ 27/02/2019

Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6 Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6.4 Protecting citizens from environmental hazards ENV.2012.6.4-2 Long-term monitoring experiment in geologically active regions of Europe prone to natural hazards: the Supersite concept Goals: Long-term monitoring and study of European land reference sites in high-risk seismic and volcanic areas to provide a better scientific understanding of the occurrence of those natural hazards, contributing to the international ‘Supersite’ initiative. Proposals should address: Select few core sites in Europe as focal points for large geographical regions, linking together observations and end users in the framework of the risk management cycle Develop and demonstrate the next generation of geo-hazards monitoring/observing systems Establish comprehensive natural hazards observatories in collaboration with the relevant industrial sectors and SME's. To run a monitoring pilot phase as a European supersite demonstrator. 27/02/2019

Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6 Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6.4 Protecting citizens from environmental hazards ENV.2012.6.4-2 (cont.) Expected impact: Increased European technical know-how for the monitoring of geological disasters and contribution to the development of the relevant European industrial sector Improved use of observations and related information to inform policies, decisions and actions associated with disaster preparedness and mitigation. Improved access to observations and related information to facilitate warning, response and recovery to disasters. Increased communication and coordination between national, regional and global communities in support of disaster risk reduction Contribute with other ‘Supersites’ to GEOSS and to the GEO 2012-15 work plan Additional information: Collaborative Project Two-stage evaluation, One or more proposals can be selected Projects linked through a coordination mechanism defined during the negotiation stage Max. EU contribution per project <6 M€, EU contribution to SME >15% 27/02/2019

Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6 Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6.4 Protecting citizens from environmental hazards ENV.2012.6.4-3 Integrating environmental and health data to advance knowledge of the role of environment in human health and well-being in support of a European exposome initiative Goal: To contribute to a global view on population exposures including critical periods of exposure (the 'exposome' concept) and possible health effects Proposals should address How to integrate and link environmental data with health data and information How to exploit available or to-be-developed novel tools and methods to do this How to best apply them to (large-scale) population studies to learn as much as possible about exposures of populations to environmental factors and possible effects 27/02/2019

Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6 Work Programme 2012 Challenge 6.4 Protecting citizens from environmental hazards ENV.2012.6.4-3 (cont.) Expected impact: Scientific: Contribution to the definition of an integrated exposure concept and prediction of individual disease risks related to environment Policy: Contribution to one or more EU policies on environment and health, such as Risk assessment of chemicals Public health – linked to the priority goals of the Parma Declaration on Environment and Health (2010) Additional information: Collaborative Project Two-stage evaluation, One or more proposals can be selected Projects linked through a coordination mechanism defined during the negotiation stage Max. EU contribution per project <9 M€ 27/02/2019

Summary of key features Protecting citizens from environmental hazards - two-stage: 48 M€ 3 topic areas, all selecting one or more projects Bottom-up approach: each applicant may choose the specific subject on which to focus Upper budget limit for each topic area: within this cap, each applicant should propose a project size that is adequate and suitable for the goals of the specific project 27/02/2019

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