Good news, everyone. There’s money available from a programme called BiodivERsA ((No comments, please, on the beauty, or otherwise, of that particular name.)) You have to come up with a proposal for an international research project to:
- link scientific advancement to challenges in biodiversity policy and conservation management;
- generate new knowledge and insights with the eventual goal of use in policy and management;
- generate added value to national research projects across Europe by linking expertise and efforts across national teams.
Furthermore, it should have to do with biodiversity, and should link scientific advance to policy and practice. And it should include partners from other ERA-net countries. The online pre-proposal form will be available from next Monday, 10 December.
So you could, for example, decide to study the impact of european legislation on levels of agricultural biodiversity and then propose policy solutions that would increase the diversity farmers and others can easily make use of. But they’ll never fund you.
I wonder what they will fund.
Hat tip: Ecology and Policy.