• Deadline for submitting applications: 12 June 2012
• Project assessment, selection and notification: October 2012
ENVI-Med programme aims to support the internationalization of research in the Mediterranean, to strengthen the high-level collaborations with Mediterranean countries on the basis of mutual benefit and to contribute to the regional integration of the least developed countries in all aspects of the field of study of Mediterranean Basin operation by promoting excellence in research and support for Euro-Mediterranean scientific communities.
ENVI-Med aims to initiate multilateral cooperation by supporting the mobility of researchers as part of joint research projects and seminars, workshops and regional scientific conferences.
The programme is focused on Mediterranean countries in partnership with France.
Each project must link at least one French research team, including teams attached to French research units based abroad, with at least two teams from two different Mediterranean countries, at least one of which must be a non-EU state.
All scientific fields, including human and social sciences, as well as interdisciplinary approaches, are eligible.
the following themes are particularly encouraged:
* The Mediterranean Sea: its effect on climate in the regions to the north and south of the Basin.
* Environment and sustainable development:
– interactions between man, the climate, the environment and the development of the Mediterranean environment;
– desertification
– the future of Mediterranean biodiversity;
– Coastal zones: places for exchanges and for living;
– Natural risks, within a context of global change and growing human pressure;
* Resource management: the assessment and reasoned management of Mediterranean basin resources – the specific issue of water sanitation;
* Towards sustainable governance in the Mediterranean:
– Sustainable city: habitability, cities, societies, crises;
– Political and social structures;
– Public policies and territorial equity in the Mediterranean;
– Links between urban and regional development in the Mediterranean;
* Archaeology and sustainable development in the Mediterranean (preservation of natural and formerly man-made landscapes, and cultural heritage in environments destabilized by economic and tourist flows, studies on adaptation to the natural environment).,
Project duration is set at two years.
The amount allocated by the MAEE must not exceed a total of €40,000 over the project’s two-year duration. Financing is granted on an annual basis.
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