Opportunities for Trans-Atlantic Cooperation

1. Opportunities for Trans-Atlantic Cooperation - Research Questions - U.S. Funding Opportunities - European Funding Opportunities - International Programs Hans-Peter Plag Climate Change and Sea Level Rise Initiative Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA

2. Research Questions - social, cultural, legal, and political constraints/incentives for mitigation and adaptation - comparative mitigation and adaptation studies - different social, cultural, legal contexts - different hazards - social construct of risk, vulnerability, and options for mitigation and adaptation - factors that determine resilience, antifragility, disaster risk - cyberinfrastructure (information systems, monitoring, warning) Observations - evidence

3. U.S. Funding Opportunities National Science Foundation: Catalyzing New International Collaborations (CNIC) CNIC awards support short international planning visits by US-based researchers or small workshops that are expected to result in submission of follow-on full research proposal(s) to NSF. 22 January 2014

4. U.S. Funding Opportunities National Science Foundation: Opportunities that Highlight International Collaboration: Research Coordination Networks (RCN) The goal of the RCN program is to advance a field or create new directions in research or education by supporting groups of investigators to communicate and coordinate their research, training and educational activities across disciplinary, organizational, geographic and international boundaries. ... foster new collaborations, including international partnerships, and address interdisciplinary topics. Innovative ideas for implementing novel networking strategies, collaborative technologies, and development of community standards for data and meta-data are especially encouraged. … not meant to support existing networks; nor are they meant to support the activities of established collaborations. ... do not support primary research. RCN supports the means by which investigators can share information and ideas, coordinate ongoing or planned research activities, foster synthesis and new collaborations, develop community standards, and in other ways advance science and education through communication and sharing of ideas. … should focus on a theme to give coherence to the collaboration, such as a broad research question or particular technologies or approaches.

5. U.S. Funding Opportunities National Science Foundation: Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) PIRE is an NSF-wide program that supports international activities across all NSF supported disciplines. ... support high quality projects in which advances in research and education could not occur without international collaboration. … catalyze a higher level of international engagement in the U.S. science and engineering community. This PIRE competition will focus exclusively on the NSF-wide investment area of Science, Engineering, and Education for Sustainability (SEES). ... focuses on interdisciplinary topics that will advance sustainability science, engineering and education as an integrative approach to the challenges of adapting to environmental, social and cultural changes associated with growth and development of human populations, and attaining a sustainable energy future. The next PIRE solicitation will be announced in the summer of 2014. The solicitation will be issued in the June, 2014 time period. Awards will be made in the August-September 2015 time period.

6. U.S. Funding Opportunities

8. U.S. Funding Opportunities Foundations: A number of opportunities should be investigated more closely

9. European Funding Opportunities Horizon 2020 EU Centers of Excellence Erasmus Mundus

12. Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness. Running from 2014 to 2020 with a budget of just over €70 billion, the EU’s new programme for research and innovation is part of the drive to create new growth and jobs in Europe. Horizon 2020 provides major simplification through a single set of rules. It will combine all research and innovation funding currently provided through the Framework Programmes for Research and Technical Development, the innovation related activities of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT).

13. The proposed support for research and innovation under Horizon 2020 will: Strengthen the EU’s position in science with a dedicated budget of € 24 341 million. This will provide a boost to top-level research in Europe, including the very successful European Research Council (ERC). Strengthen industrial leadership in innovation € 17 015 million. This includes major investment in key technologies, greater access to capital and support for SMEs. Provide € 30 956 million to help address major concerns shared by all Europeans such as climate change, developing sustainable transport and mobility, making renewable energy more affordable, ensuring food safety and security, or coping with the challenge of an ageing population. Horizon 2020 will tackle societal challenges by helping to bridge the gap between research and the market by, for example, helping innovative enterprise to develop their technological breakthroughs into viable products with real commercial potential. This market-driven approach will include creating partnerships with the private sector and Member States to bring together the resources needed.

14. International cooperation will be an important cross-cutting priority of Horizon 2020. In addition to Horizon 2020 being fully open to international participation, targeted actions with key partner countries and regions will focus on the EU’s strategic priorities. Through a new strategy, a strategic and coherent approach to international cooperation will be ensured across Horizon 2020.

16. Core principles of the new strategy: International cooperation in research and innovation is a means for the EU to achieve its higher level objectives by: - strengthening excellence & attractiveness in R&I and economic & industrial competitiveness; - tackling global societal challenges, such as food & energy security and climate change; - supporting the Union’s external policies. To achieve these objectives, the strategy will follow a dual approach: - Horizon 2020 will be open to participation from entities from across the world, although the approach to providing funding from the Union budget to these entities will be revised. Through this general opening, European researchers will be free to cooperate with their third country counterparts on topics of their own choice; - To complement the general opening, targeted activities will be developed where cooperation will be sought on particular topics and with well identified countries and/or regions A number of cross-cutting issues will also be an integral part of the strategy: - The partnership with the Member States will be strengthened, building on the work of the Strategy Forum for International S&T Cooperation; - Common principles for the conduct of international research and innovation activities will be developed and promoted together with key international partners, in order to create a global level playing field; - Research and innovation will make a stronger contribution to the Union's external policies.

18. European Funding Opportunities Erasmus+ 2014-2020 - provides the framework for EU programmes for international higher education cooperation and mobility. - opportunities will be available for higher education institutions to carry out international cooperation, Joint Master Degrees (JMDs) with scholarships: JMDs will be integrated master courses delivered by a consortium of universities, which will offer EU-funded scholarships to European and non-European nationals (with a priority on the latter). Capacity-Building (CB) projects: CB projects will be collaborative partnerships set up and managed by groups of universities and other types of organisations from the EU on the one hand and from particular regions of the world on the other. International credit mobility: Under an inter-institutional agreement signed with a university from another country of the world, universities will be able exchange students and/or staff for short term durations (up to twelve months for students). More information about the proposed Erasmus+ programme can be found on the following webpage:  http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus-for-all/ Opportunity: Workshops on joint degree programs and questions related to education.

19. European Funding Opportunities Erasmus+ 2014-2020 - provides the framework for EU programmes for international higher education cooperation and mobility. - opportunities will be available for higher education institutions to carry out international cooperation, Joint Master Degrees (JMDs) with scholarships: JMDs will be integrated master courses delivered by a consortium of universities, which will offer EU-funded scholarships to European and non-European nationals (with a priority on the latter). Capacity-Building (CB) projects: CB projects will be collaborative partnerships set up and managed by groups of universities and other types of organisations from the EU on the one hand and from particular regions of the world on the other. International credit mobility: Under an inter-institutional agreement signed with a university from another country of the world, universities will be able exchange students and/or staff for short term durations (up to twelve months for students). More information about the proposed Erasmus+ programme can be found on the following webpage:  http://ec.europa.eu/education/erasmus-for-all/ Opportunity: Workshops on joint degree programs and questions related to education.

21. International Funding Opportunities Belmont Forum (GEF) (World Bank) (UNESCO) IGCP

24. In 2011, the Programme supported work on five themes: Earth Resources: Sustaining our Society Global Change: Evidence from the geological record Geohazards: Mitigating the risks Hydrogeology: Geoscience of the water cycle Geodynamic: Control our environment The Programme has always built bridges between disciplines and between scientists, including young ones, with aims of stimulating cutting-edge research and sharing scientific knowledge for the benefit of all.