FORWARDS
General Information
Opening date
31 July 2024
Deadline model
single-stage
Deadline dates
31 October 2024 23:00 (Brussels time)
Open For Submission
Expected duration of participation
18 months
Total funding available
725 000,00 €
Project acronym
FORWARDS
Full name of the EU funded project
The ForestWard Observatory to Secure Resilience of European Forests
Grant agreement number
101084481
Topic
HORIZON-CL6-2022-CLIMATE-01-05 – Forestry – European observatory of climate change impacts and demonstration network of climate smart restoration pilots
Submission & evaluation process
Submission and evaluation process can be found on the grants website: https://efi.int/grants-training/grants/G-06-2024Show more
Further information
Call for Grants and further information can be found on the grant website: https://efi.int/grants-training/grants/G-06-2024
Task description
FORWARDS is a Horizon Europe project that will prototype the ForestWard Observatory, a pan-European monitoring and evaluation tool that will help demonstrate the impact of climate change on forests and guide decision-making for practical forest management. This call aims to set up pilots for long-term climate impact forest monitoring sites across Europe. Current long-term forest monitoring networks provide important information on the impact of climate change on forests. Still, most monitoring networks are not particularly focused on assessing climate change impacts. With this call, the aim is thus to increase the potential of existing forest monitoring sites – especially but not inclusively ICP Forests, ICOS or LTER sites (i.e., sites which already provide a basic set of monitoring data) to assess the impact of climate and climatic extremes on trees and forests. Third party grants are managed by FORWARDS Partner European Forest Institute (EFI).