GSS EU Science Funding Gateway

Actions should address developments and improvements, such as:

• Sectorial detail and (transformative/structural) changes across various sectors of the economy such as those resulting from increased circularity and digitalisation.
• Temporal resolution and technological detail.
• Spatial resolution with outputs suitable for national/regional level analysis.
• Behavioural and lifestyle changes.
• Distributional and equity effects of climate policies.
• Interactions with the relevant sustainable development goals (such as co-benefits due to avoided impacts and trade-offs in areas such as health, biodiversity, food security etc.).
• Climate change impacts, including the extent to which they can be avoided through mitigation action, synergies and trade-offs between climate mitigation and adaptation policies.
• Financial sector and investment needs, including information in support of investment risk-reduction strategies to mobilise capital to finance the transition towards a climate-neutral economy.
• Uncertainties and risk-management strategies for supporting mitigation policies.

Also, actions may propose new avenues of research, while duly justifying their choice and keeping in mind the impact on IAMs’ relevance and adequacy as a decision-support tool. In order to avoid duplication of efforts, proposals should clearly demonstrate how they will go beyond the modelling state of art. Actions are encouraged to explore alternative approaches to the mainstream economic assumptions typically underlying the models (such as fully functioning markets and perfect information) and aim at striking the right balance between model complexity and usability.

Active involvement of the end-users (policy makers, business, civil society) in the co-design of models and validation of the outputs should be considered. Applicants should investigate and apply communication tools and strategies for improved interaction with stakeholders and dissemination of model results, duly accounting for the needs of non-technical audiences.  Beneficiaries are strongly encouraged to publish results data in open access databases and/or as annexes to publications.