Call for research projects on adaptation in the Mediterranean region (water, agriculture and food security, coastal areas, conflict zones, health)
The AdaptAction program, co-financed by the European Union and AFD, is launching a call for research projects on adaptation in the Mediterranean region. This call for expressions of interest constitutes the first phase of the selection process.
Objective: to fund up to three research projects, with activities starting during the fourth quarter of 2026 and ending by 30 April 2028.
Presentation of the call for projects
Projects should focus on one or more of the eight countries of intervention of the program in the region: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Syria. The selection process will give priority to projects involving at least two countries.
Projects will need to build on climate and impact data already available. This call will not fund new exercises in climate modeling, downscaling, producing climate scenarios or generating new biophysical impact data.
The humanities and social sciences should be at the heart of the proposals. Interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged, but proposals that are exclusively technical, climate or biophysical will not meet the objectives of this call.
Proposals for research projects should be submitted in either French or English. Any research papers may be written in French, English or Arabic.
This call is the first phase of the selection process. At the end of this first phase, shortlisted expressions of interest will be invited to submit a full proposal.
The expected research should in particular contribute to all or part of the following issues:
- strengthen the dissemination and translation of climate knowledge and impact data into public policies, territorial strategies, and adaptation projects;
- to analyze the social, political and institutional conditions of adaptation in Mediterranean territories in order to promote the inclusion of the most vulnerable;
- better integrate the experience and knowledge of local decision-makers, practitioners, and stakeholders into knowledge production;
- co-build and implement decision-making tools and processes in the face of climate uncertainties;
- to promote the production of operational knowledge, appropriable by public actors, donors, project owners and local organizations, and usable in the design of public policies or adaptation projects;
- contribute to strengthening research and expertise capacities in the countries of intervention.
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