The Horizon Europe co-funded CASRI project strengthens the role of Environmental Protection Agencies (EPAs) and alike partners in the European Research Area by identifying and implementing shared priorities for environmental and sustainability research and innovation (R&I).
This policy brief presents key first-phase results of CASRI’s first phase (Jan 2024–June 2025), CASRI provides a unique platform for bottom-up, co-designed agenda-setting by EPAs, European and national stakeholders—ensuring that environmental and sustainability research and innovation are grounded in real-world knowledge and implementation needs.
Based on the synthesis of over 600 R&I proposals from 14 countries and regions and the outcomes of a major transnational workshop, CASRI identified eight thematic themes—including four cross-cutting challenges (security, democracy, competitiveness, and digitalisation) that demand attention. CASRI also proposes new collaboration models that address current weaknesses in long-term coordination, funding stability and science-policy-practice integration.
This brief offers first recommendations to EU policy-makers and research programme designers to better embed EPAs into ERA, build lasting transnational R&I platforms, and reshape calls and funding tools to meet systemic sustainability challenges. The findings serve as a timely input to current debates on the future of Framework Programme 10 and ERA governance.
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(1) SFIAR Website: Information platform of Switzerland on agricultural research for development, (2) Management of the SFIAR Award for innovative agricultural research for development, (3) General secretariat support for the SFIAR, (4) Representation of SFIAR in the European Forum on Agricultural Research for Development (EFARD). Aim: The SHL is mandated to manage the SFIAR Secretariat with the aim to strengthen the network of Swiss agricultural research for development and to improve its visibility.
Objective: The World Climate Conference-3 (WCC-3) is aimed at initiating a global action to address the management of climate related risks and opportunities in the interest of supporting sustainable socio-economic development, especially in developing and least developed countries, in the face of current climate variability and predicted climate change. The theme of WCC-3 is Climate prediction and information for decision-making , focusing on the application of climate information and predictions to societal problems enabling adaptation to the current climate conditions and predicted future changes in areas such as agriculture, forestry, water, health, infrastructure, urban cities and sustainable development. The involvement and participation of scientists from developing and least developed countries, which are often affected by climate related disasters and endowed with unique opportunities for development, shall help in developing appropriate climate services that would support the various sectors of the economy to spur growth. The WCC 3 is intended to establish an international framework that will enhance the provision, exchange, and application of climate prediction and information services for a wide range of socio-economic sectors and in doing so make a significant contribution to the UNFCCC COP15. This includes improving the ability of societies to reduce and manage climate related risks, through the provision of skilful climate prediction and information services as well as the integration of these services into decision-making as a means of enhancing the resilience of governments, society, and institutions to adapt to current and changing climate conditions. WCC-3 will also further the scientific basis to explain and predict changes in the global climate in the context of both natural and anthropogenic forcing with an emphasis on contributing, from the science perspective, to the development of policy options for appropriate responses to global changes.