START is pleased to announce an opportunity for African scientists to participate in the joint JPI Urban Europe Belmont Forum call.

The Belmont Forum and NORFACE launch the Programme Transformations to Sustainability (T2S). T2S is now accepting Project Outline Proposals.

Belmont Forum, together with JPI Urban Europe, invites those interested in learning more about our newest call, the Sustainable Urban Global Initiative (SUGI): Food-Water-Energy Nexus, to a webinar on January 19 and February 16!

Transdisciplinary Training Workshops applications are due 18 January 2017!

The call, which is joint with JPI-Urban Europe and features a number of international funding agency partners, opened on December 9, 2017. Pre-proposals are due March 15, 2017.

For call information visit www.sugi-nexus.org.

Belmont Forum, together with JPI Urban Europe, invites those interested in learning more about our newest call, the Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/ Food-Water-Energy Nexus, to a webinar on November 16th!

During a very productive and plentiful three days in Doha this past week, the Belmont Forum members, partners, and guests worked through the meeting agenda.

On November 7th, in Marrakech, Morocco, the Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change will open its 22nd meeting. The Belmont Forum will be present to participate in an ICSU-hosted panel on urgent needs in climate research science following the Paris Agreement.

Next week marks the 11th annual plenary meeting of the Belmont Forum. The meeting, hosted by the Qatar National Research Fund in Doha, Qatar, brings together funding organizations and ministries from more than 24 countries, UN and international development agencies, regional science consortia, and international scientific governance bodies.