Organisationseinheit: Deutschland. Umweltbundesamt. Referat PB.1 - Planung und Steuerung, Strategisches Controlling, Forschungskoordination
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Future-orienting the next EU Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF)
(German Environment Agency, 2026) Winkler, Klara; Ehlers, Knut; Schauser, Inke; Haße, Clemens; Eckermann, Frauke; Nagel, Maik; Bartke, Stephan; Biewald, Anne
The EU’s next Multiannual Financial Framework offers an opportunity to align funding with competitiveness and resilience goals. The current proposal suggests a weakening of the environmental and climate priorities. This policy brief advocates for a future-oriented MFF that embrasses resilience, climate change, environment and green innovation. Instruments (Do No Significant Harm (DNSH) principle, Environment and Climate coefficients, Climate Resilience by Design (CRbD)) must be effectively designed. The European Competitiveness Fund (ECF) including R&I, and the National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRPPs) including the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Cohesion Policy, are a key for a future-oriented EU.
Ethics, gender, diversity plan.
(2024) Bartke, Stephan; Europäische Union
The CASRI Ethics, Gender, and Diversity Plan (EGDP) is a comprehensive framework designed to establish priorities, set concrete objectives, and implement measures to enhance ethics, gender equality, and diversity within the CASRI project. This document serves as a guide for ensuring ethical conduct, promoting gender balance, and fostering a diverse and inclusive research environment.
Quelle: Bericht
Co-design methodology defining coherent engagement of stakeholders
(2024) Firus, Katja; Dorato, Sara; Dictor, Marie-Christine; Korhonen-Kurki, Kaisa; Lyytimaki, Jari; Maring, Linda; Rijken, Bart; Bartke, Stephan; Europäische Union
This report is presenting the methodology for a consistent stakeholder involvement throughout the different phases of the CASRI project for developing a Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) among the involved Environmental Protection Agencies.
The document is meant to present the bottom-up approach to an interested public and also to serve as a guiding document for the CARSI partners and their National Contacts.
Quelle: Bericht
Communication, dissemination & exploitation plan
(2024) Bartke, Stephan; Dorato, Sara; Firus, Katja; ; Europäische Union
The Deliverable “Communication, Dissemination & Exploitation Plan” (D6.2) aims to provide the CASRI consortium with practical information and guidelines for a targeted and efficient implementation of outreach activities. This deliverable describes the project's external communication strategy, including objectives, target audiences, key messages, tools, channels, timeline, and monitoring activities and presents a first version of an exploitation plan.
Developed in a co-design process with partners, and according to the Description of Action (DoA) of the CASRI Grant Agreement, this report will be updated after two years (project month 24) to refine its tools and strategies.
Quelle: Bericht
National comprehensive reviews on Environmental and Sustainability Research and Innovation needs, Funding and Science Policy and Practice Interactions
(2024) Maring, Linda; Ellen, Gerald Jan; Rijken, Bart; Molina, Camilo; Elgorriaga, Ander; Aneva, Ina; Lyytimäki, Jari; Van Heuverswyn, Kathleen; Mathieu-Huber, Dominique; Otto, Sonja; Bartke, Stephan; O’Neill, Darragh; Alessi, Raffaella; Casella, Laura; Varajic, Sanja; Sluisveld, Mariësse A.E. van; Lipták, Boris; Guzmová, Janka; Schubiger, Elisabeth; Savage, Kester; Neumann, Judith; Röderer, Kathrin; Alzola, Ana; Alonso, Mari Mar; Gutierrez, Laura; Cortazar, Aitor Saez de; Ivanov, Dimiter; Korhonen-Kurki, Kaisa; Leppänen, Lauri; Karjalainen,Eeva; Breton, Bastien; Rémondet, Martin; Eckert, Karl; Hagemann, Nina; Zertuche, Carla Barrientos Rios; Vigni, Roberta; Moscone, Sandra; Gajevic, Andjela; Zecevic, Ivana; Hoorn, Anton van; Verveld, Leonora; Queloz, Pierre; Wülser, Gabriela; Maggs, Luke; Europäische Union; Firus, Katja; Dictor, Marie-Christine; Gaugitsch, Helmut; Minestrini, Stefania; Prum, Pierre; Uhel, Ronan
The Basque Country is a small, high-density region with a high degree of industrialization, capillary
and advanced governance, self-government and fiscal autonomy, political stability, a commitment to
sustainability and a high degree of socio-cultural, business and scientific-technological cohesion. It
is therefore in reality a ‘regional laboratory for environmental transition policies’, which can make the
right decisions after agile experimentation with new R&I mechanisms based on adapting best
practices or detailed benchmarking (e.g. CASRI).
Both environmental planning with its Environmental Framework Program (PMA) and multiple
climate-environmental sub-programs and RDI planning with its Basque Science and Technology
Plan (PCTI) are more than two decades old and highly mature. While energy-climate and spatial
planning are the most long-term research topics, a comprehensive environmental transition still has
room for improvement, and there are gaps both in how to implement it in the long term and in how
to finance it in a stable way in order to be able to tackle it. The existence of several public agencies
that are essential for a green transition (Ihobe is responsible for environment, Eve for energy, Ura
for water, Hazi for agro-forestry, Spri for business, Brta for R&I, etc...) and the function of the former
as an integral dynamization of the environmental policy cycle increases the chances of success of
different experiments in the field of the Science-Policy-Practice Interaction (SPPI) and the approach
to the green transition in the Basque Country.
The comprehensively reviewed ES R&I needs for the 4 CASRI themes shows a clear technological
focus on ‘resilient, net-zero, circular production systems’ and ‘nature & environmentally friendly
energy transition’, which, despite mapping 8 needs, does not sufficiently develop the SPPI by
focusing reactively mainly on business demands.
The most important priorities for CASRI are: 1) The Smart Economic Environmental Flows Data
System in order to make optimal environmental policy decisions based on Artificial Intelligence (AI);
2) Ensuring the environmental (Life Cycle Analysis (LCA), biodiversity), economic (Life Cycle Costs
(LCC)) and societal sustainability of major investments in the energy transition (green hydrogen,
renewables).
The largest number of R&I needs have been mapped in ‘biodiversity and climate’ (17), as the SPPI
is particularly developed in the field of climate adaptation thanks to the Basque Country's
commitment to the EU Adaptation Mission, which is deployed with its own funds and large European
projects aimed at demonstrating solutions to highly transferable challenges. Currently, the most
important challenge is the establishment of comprehensive models and criteria based on data to
ensure the validation of alternative solutions to be demonstrated and subsequently transferred to
similar cases. The integration of science-based climate resilience and soil protection criteria into key
territorial instruments (Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), Spatial Planning Guidelines,...) as
well as the design and development of a cost-effective soil quality monitoring system are also
considered of great relevance for the environmental transition.
In ‘sustainable urbanization’, with 7 mapped needs, despite the existence of specific Research,
Development and Innovation (R&D&I) groups and a participation in the EU Mission Cities, there are
still important knowledge gaps for a green transition. The most relevant need is the development of
integrated criteria (Economic, Environment, Societal) of Urban Regeneration for long-term
sustainable decisions based on eco-economic, environmental and social data, which in turn is linked
to experimenting in the corresponding deliberative processes, a cross-cutting priority that also affects
other areas. Finally, in the cross-cutting area, the integral aspects of One Health gain relevance
together with the involvement of citizens (as consumers and in the development of science itself).
Technological R&D&I is well organised in the Basque Country, with significant own funds and a high
level of participation in European projects. For RDI for Science and Knowledge for Policy (S4P and
K4P), two sources of funding are used, i.e. the public agencies' own lines (Ihobe, Eve, Hazi, etc.)
based on public tenders and European projects (Horizon EU and Life) which, on occasions, do not
meet the most relevant needs.
It is essential to organize, give coherence and visibility, at least thematically, to the already existing
funds for SPPI in order to then reinforce with own budgets (incl. the limited EU Cohesion Funds or
other EU sources) the funding earmarked for it, preferably with a specific program that improves the
previous pilot experience (Basque Klimatek Program). It is also considered most cost-effective to
deploy the opportunity to work on common needs at European level through the mechanisms
resulting from the CASRI initiative. The difficulty of accessing funds for demonstration projects (e.g.
in climate adaptation and soil protection) that demonstrate and optimize real solutions in order to
massively transfer them for actual deployment of transitions should also be highlighted. While there
are simple and agile ways to build trust and confidence for long-term collaboration between
environmental agencies, it seems appropriate to explore in more detail the possibility of generating
an EU-backed public or public-private fund to finance common R&I priorities.
Regarding the improvement of the Science Practice Policy Interface (SPPI), progress and
improvements have been made in a less structured way. It does seem advisable to expand recently
created Basque Country mechanisms of a thematic nature (e.g. the Technical Commission on Soil
Protection, the Scientific Commission on Climate Change, etc.), in order to reach a consensus on
priorities in S4P and K4P. The socialization of these priorities is also a relevant activity.
The opportunity to coordinate these priorities and their synergies, usually thematic, in a Regional
SPPI Council with a SRIA focused on S4P and K4P should be considered. In addition, strengthening
the intelligent and stable conversation between science and policy is necessary, for which the
European Environment Agency and its National EPAs Network can play a key supporting role, and
it is proposed to provide the appropriate material and dynamics to accelerate this process.
Quelle: Bericht
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