These awards provide support to transdisciplinary, multinational consortia to engage in global change research through a 14-country joint research initiative supported by the Belmont Forum and the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI).
The Belmont Forum/G8HORCs Panel of Experts (PoE) meetings for the Freshwater Security and Coastal Vulnerability themes were held in late March, 2013. PoE recommendations for funding have been transmitted to national funding agencies for final decisions.
The Belmont Forum is a high level group of the worlds major and emerging funders of global environmental change research and international science councils. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international environmental research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing International resources.
The submission period for pre-proposals has ended. Thank you for your interest in this call for proposals.
Due to technical difficulties with the online submission portal, applications will also be accepted via email. The deadline for submitting proposals for the Joint Call on Food Security and Land Use Change is this Monday, September 30th 2013, at 24:00 UTC.
The Belmont Forum announces funding decisions for recent calls on the themes of Coastal Vulnerability and Freshwater Security. These awards provide support to transdisciplinary, multinational consortia to engage in global change research through an 11-country joint research initiative supported by the Belmont Forum and G8 Heads of Research Councils. Consortia are comprised of natural scientists, social scientists and end-users, policy makers, and associated stakeholders. The goal of these research programs is to accelerate delivery of knowledge needed for action to mitigate and adapt to detrimental environmental change and extreme hazardous events within the thematic areas of either Coastal Vulnerability or Freshwater Security.
The Belmont Forum/G8HORCs Panel of Experts (PoE) meetings for the Freshwater Security and Coastal Vulnerability themes were held in late March, 2013. PoE recommendations for funding have been transmitted to national funding agencies for final decisions.
The International Social Science Council (ISSC) and the International Council for Science (ICSU), in collaboration with the German Research Foundation (DFG) are hosting a Young Scientists Networking Conference for Post-Doctoral Researchers Interested in Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences.
Expert Reviewer Registration is open for the Working Group I second order draft contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. The review will continue from October 5th through November 30th, 2012.
Earthquakes, floods, and weather extremes are among a range of societal hazards that are increasingly studied by national and international researchers, but the absence of international collaboration and coordination is increasingly leading to inefficiencies and lost opportunities. The world’s major funders of global change research are considering how best to align financial and human capital toward delivering the relevant knowledge that society will need in the 21st century. The Belmont Forum (named after the group’s first meeting venue in Maryland in 2009) meets twice a year and is composed of funding executives from Australia, Austria, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Norway, South Africa, the United Kingdom, the United States, and the European Commission, together with the executive directors of the International Council for Science (ICSU) and International Social Sciences Council (ISSC).
