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Water4All: Call opened for applications for funding for research projects on Aquatic Ecosystem Services

Publication date 22.9.2023 9.30 | Published in English on 25.9.2023 at 9.07
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The mission of the European Partnership Water4All is to support research and innovation projects that will improve global water security in the long term. The theme for the 2023 call that has now been opened is “Water for ecosystems and biodiversity”. The transnational research projects to be funded must be related to aquatic ecosystem services and composed of research groups from at least three participating countries. 

The Water4All Partnership, cofunded by the European Union, brings together more than 80 partners from 31 countries. The national funders in Finland are the Research Council of Finland and the Ministry of the Environment.

Call for applications, general eligibility criteria and drawing up the application:

The projects funded by the Ministry of the Environment must be in compliance with the Act on Discretionary Government Grants (688/2001) and the conditions and restrictions concerning special grants awarded by the Ministry of the Environment: 

The Ministry of the Environment can contribute up to 70 per cent of the total costs of the project. By derogation from the conditions and restrictions concerning special grants of the Ministry of the Environment, the percentage applies to both direct and indirect costs. 

A central government accounting office may not be a government grant recipient. However, an internal government funding decision may be made regarding a government accounting office.

The Ministry of the Environment may also require the grant recipient to submit an affirmation concerning sanctions:

When the grant is paid, no value added tax is added to the total amount as grants awarded by the Government are not sales for consideration. Monetary transactions without consideration are not sales as referred to in section 1 of the Value Added Tax Act. With respect to the costs incurred by the implementer of the project (e.g. purchased services), value added tax is, as a rule, an eligible cost if the grant recipient does not have the right to deduct the value added tax and the costs would thus remain a final cost of the recipient.

The submission deadline of pre-proposals is 13 November 2023 at 15.00 CET (16.00 Finnish time). 
An international webinar on the application will be held on 5 October 2023 at 14.30 and a national webinar on 10 October 2023 at 13. Updates on the events will be available at:

Inquiries

Laura Höijer, Research Director, Ministry of the Environment, tel. +358 295 250 139, [email protected]
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