Migration and climate change: building resilience and enhancing sustainability

Projects should deliver all of the following: 1. A dynamic, community-driven knowledge database and exchange platform that strengthens EU and national migration governance, enhances collaboration among researchers, policymakers and practitioners, and integrates environment and climate-change migration considerations into EU and national policies. 2. A strategic roadmap outlining key interdisciplinary research (including SSH) and policy priorities on climate change and migration, with clear implementation measures. 3. A suite of concise, costed, actionable policy recommendations (with non-action option) to improve the EU’s understanding, preparedness and collaboration with third countries under relevant EU policy frameworks, grounded in respect for human dignity, gender and age equality, and fundamental rights.

Proposals must: 1. Produce a strategic roadmap framing climate change–migration impacts across generations, outlining key research (including SSH) and policy priorities, and supporting concrete implementation measures. 2. Co-design with DG RTD, DG HOME and the JRC the structure and format of a dynamic, community-driven, user-editable exchange platform, to be built and hosted within the KCMD web environment. 3. Populate the platform with up-to-date, FAIR data on international/internal displacement, destination flows (neighbouring EU countries, EU arrivals), and climate change drivers/interactions, integrating data from European Research Infrastructures via EOSC and Data Spaces. 4. Adopt an interdisciplinary approach (climate, population, mobility studies) addressing environmental disasters, migration intentions, internal displacements, and exacerbated vulnerabilities (social, economic, political, health, gender), including stranded populations. 5. Identify research and policy gaps, conduct local case studies on climate impacts and environmental immobility, and derive actionable, scalable solutions. 6. Consult and coordinate with DG RTD, DG HOME, JRC/KCMD in roadmap development, platform design, and translation of findings into concise policy briefs. 7. Build on outcomes and methodologies of relevant Horizon 2020/HE projects and Destination Earth pilots. 8. Produce a range of feasible, costed policy options (including non-action), evaluating existing EU humanitarian, development and migration policies, and recommending additions or modifications to EU strategies, regulations, and directives, aligned with EU values.