This call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability.

This call aims to foster research on climate, environmental, and related societal change in mountain regions, considering new measurements, recovery of existing data, and the development and use of integrated modelling strategies by adopting a strong trans- and inter-disciplinary approach.

The successful projects and research teams include participants and support from Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Greenland, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Norway, Russia, Sweden, and the US. Research teams include a breadth of stakeholders, including indigenous communities, local governments, industry, and NGOs.

This call for proposals aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability.

The position will be open from December 19th, 2014 to January 31th, 2015 noon UTC.

The grants in the scope of this call promote establishing new international and interdisciplinary networks. The objective is to stimulate networking and capacity building for innovative research across social and natural science disciplines and to enable the scientists to implement innovative research to underpin needed improvements in biodiversity scenario development.

Future Earth has today published the Strategic Research Agenda 2014, the outcome of a year-long global consultation on the priorities for global change research.

The Future Earth Secretariat is seeking five Global Hub Directors for its globally distributed headquarters in Boulder (USA), Montreal (Canada), Paris (France), Stockholm (Sweden) and Tokyo (Japan). A Deputy Director (Synthesis & Foresight) is also sought for the Paris office.

Heide Hackmann, a social scientist with extensive experience running international research organizations, will be Executive Director of the Council’s Secretariat from March 2015. Lucilla Spini, a biological anthropologist with experience in international science coordination will take on the newly created role of Head of Science Programmes in early January.

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).