The purpose of this Open Call is to build teams that are poised to address targeted sub-themes within each of the two main areas. Follow-on funding may be available at the conclusion of this six-month period, for a period of up to two years.
Looking ahead
The second step, developing full proposals, will be initiated after the May selection and June launch. Starting in June, selected teams will work on some or all of the following elements within the first 6 months (more details will be provided upon selection):
| Problem | The specific problem to be addressed. |
| Impact | The expected goal/outcome if it is addressed successfully. |
| Approach | A detailed description of the proposed solution including key challenges and information needs across economic, technical, scientific, and humanistic domains. |
| Differentiation | What is transformational about the proposed approach relative to the overall landscape. |
| Proof-of-concept | Preliminary data to prove or disprove technology concepts, behavioral studies, etc. |
| Deployment | A plan for transitioning the solution in the real world as quickly as possible including technical and non-technical barriers. |
| Achieving scale | A clear understanding of the likely pathway to deployment such that the solution has the potential to move the needle in terms of climate response (mitigation and/or adaptation). |
| Barriers to intervention, translation, implementation | An understanding of potential barriers to scale-up and how they can be addressed. These barriers may include, but are not limited to physical limits, markets, policy and regulatory environment, financing, behavior/social acceptance, etc. |
| Collaborators | Demonstrated engagement with partners whose participation is required both for successful deployment and successful scale-up, i.e. results of external workshops and on-site development. |
Frontier Projects—impact-focused, interdisciplinary research and innovation projects aimed at deploying scalable climate solutions—will be launched in the coming months. Projects funded within these two themes are part of the gap analysis that could lead directly to a Frontier Project or provide the building-block capabilities for a Frontier Project.