The CIIE has seen the two applications in which it participated under the NORTE-45-2020-75 call, which aimed to promote integrated IC&DT research projects in the Horizon Europe mission areas, selected for funding. The Northern Regional Coordination and Development Commission (CCDR-N) approved these two multidisciplinary projects. They will be funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through NORTE 2020 - the Northern Regional Operational Programme. The value of the external funding for the two projects is approximately one million euros for two years.

In the mission area "Adaptation to climate change, including societal transformation", the co-promoted project led by CIIE, "ClimActiC - Citizenship for Climate: Creating Bridges between Citizenship and Science for Climate Adaptation", was approved. This project, coordinated by Isabel Menezes and co-coordinated by Ana Cristina Torres, also brings together the Separation and Reaction Processes Laboratory - Catalysis and Materials Laboratory (LSRE-LCM) from FEUP, the Physics Centre of the Universities of Minho and Porto (CF-UM-UP), from FCUP, and the Psychology Centre of the University of Porto (CPUP), from FPCEUP. The project also includes Amélia Lopes, Sofia Marques da Silva, Eunice Macedo, Carla Malafaia and Leanete Thomas Dotta, and Rita Ruivo Marques, a researcher at the LSRE-LCM. ClimActiC is a project that brings together citizens, secince and public policies in the management of adaptation to climate change, deepening knowledge about environmental challenges and the processes of behavioural and societal change, and generating spaces for communication and co-creation between scientists, young people, activists, economic agents and political decision-makers to draw up recommendations for a more resilient and adapted Northern region. The 24-month project will begin on 1 July.
More information about ClimActiC at https://ciie.fpce.up.pt/en/project/cidadaniapeloclima:-climactic.

The second project, in the "Healthy Oceans, Seas and Coastal and Inland Waters" mission area, is entitled "Healthy Waters - Identification, Elimination, Social Awareness and Education of Water Chemical and Biological Micropollutants with Health and Environmental Implications" and is coordinated by FEUP's LSRE-LCM. The consortium brings together two other R&D units based at FEUP (LEPABE - Laboratory for Process, Environmental, Biotechnology and Energy Engineering and CEFT - Centre for Transport Phenomena Studies) and CIIE/FPCEUP, whose research team on the project is coordinated by Isabel Menezes. This team includes Sofia Marques da Silva, Pedro Daniel Ferreira, Sofia Castanheira Pais, Teresa Sa Dilvias and Rita Ruivo Marques. Healthy Waters aims to improve water quality in northern Portugal through a strategy combining laboratory work with intervention and environmental education in the community. The project began work on 1 April and will close in March 2023.
More information about Healthy Waters at https://ciie.fpce.up.pt/en/project/healthy-waters.