Collaborative Research Actions (CRAs) / Opportunities

Africa Regional Call

The Belmont Forum is pleased to announce the launch of the Africa Regional Collaborative Research Action.

In support of the African Union’s climate, environment, and sustainability goals and priority areas for Agenda 2063, the National Research Foundation, South Africa (NRF) has led the development of this Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action (CRA) to address knowledge gaps and priorities in addressing climate change vulnerability across the continent. Three themes (or areas) of concern emerged from scoping sessions with the community:

• Area 1 – Water – Energy – Food – Health Nexus
• Area 2 – Pollution
• Area 3 – Disaster Preparedness, Responsiveness, and Recovery

In addition to the three call Areas, green and blue economy was identified as a cross-cutting issue and education and awareness were identified as cross-cutting activities to be encouraged.

Proposals should include a strong and deliberate linkage between the societal and
environmental aspects within global environmental challenges to ensure that they
meet the Belmont Challenge for international transdisciplinary research: to provide
knowledge for understanding, mitigating, and/or adapting to global environmental
Change.

Given the complexity and scope of these challenges, research consortia must be truly
transdisciplinary, thus including researchers from: a) social sciences/humanities/economics and b) natural sciences/physical sciences/engineering/technology, as well as c) societal partners (i.e. citizens, industry, civil society organizations), using a participatory, co-designed and co-implementation approach. Additional knowledge holders are welcome to be part of the proposing consortium once this minimum criterion is met.

Successful proposals must address and deliver on at least one of the three themes identified above, with cross-cutting linkages across multiple Areas and the integration of blue and green economies, education, and awareness encouraged.

Details of the call and the application process are provided via the application portal bfgo.org. There are also training modules available for proposers on the Belmont Forum YouTube channel. Before starting to prepare proposals, applicants are advised to contact their funding organisation(s) as listed in the annex documents for the call.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
• Registration Form and Instructions
• Full Proposal Form and Instructions

Call Logistics

• Call Opens: 24 May 2024
• Registrations Due  (extended): 16 September 2024, 20:00 UTC
• Full proposals Due: 13 February 2025, 20:00 UTC
• Frequently Asked Questions (English, French)

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Our future depends on tackling major complex challenges now, many of which must be tackled in cities and by urban communities. In order to do so, the Belmont Forum joins the European partnership Driving Urban Transitions for the year 2024 in a common call.

Part of the European Horizon Europe Framework Programme and a continuation of the Urban Europe JPI, the Driving Urban Transitions European Partnership brings together a strong community of almost 30 countries and more than 60 partners to support the European innovation ecosystem in the urban field for the third year running.

The Belmont Forum joins forces in bringing new funders and allowing the international community to participate in the programme, offering a global funding opportunity for innovative projects that accelerate the transition to sustainable cities. By providing a joint CRA, the Belmont Forum builds on its previous actions, the SUGI Food-Water-Energy Nexus CRA and ERANET which was implemented jointly with JPI Urban Europe.

The Belmont Forum is supporting this initiative with participation from FAPESP (Brazil), JST (Japan), and NSTC (Taipei).

This call focuses on:

• Circular Urban Economies
• 15-minute Cities
• Positive Energy Districts

The DUT call for projects, the first phase of which opens on 2 September 2024 and closes on 14 November 2024, is designed to fund transnational research and innovation projects addressing urban challenges on an international scale to help cities in their transition to a more sustainable economy and way of operating.

The Positive Energy Districts (PED) challenge aims to develop and optimise local energy systems through energy efficiency, flexibility and local energy production from renewable energies, with the support of key stakeholders including local authorities and developers.

The 15-minute City challenge aims to encourage sustainable mobility choices, redistribute urban space and reorganise activities to make cities more climate-neutral and inclusive.

The Circular Urban Economies (CUE) challenge aims to encourage the design of urban places characterised by regenerative urbanism, made up of liveable, inclusive and green neighbourhoods and supported by circular urban economies, minimising distant flows and optimising the use of resources.

Pre-proposals submission period: September 2 to November 14, 2024

Full proposals submission period: February 21 to April 24, 2025

As a joint endeavour, the submission process will go through the DUT platform. For more information about the submission process, please refer to https://dutpartnership.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/DUT-2023-Submission-Systrem-Pre-proposal.pdf.
If you are looking for partners, we strongly encourage you to use the DUT partnership’s matchmaking platform: https://dut-call-2024.b2match.io/.

Please find more the information at https://dutpartnership.eu/news/the-dut-call-2024-is-now-open/.

For more information contact info@belmontforum.org, insert “DUT” in the subject line.

Climate and Cultural Heritage

The Belmont Forum and the Joint Programming Initiatives Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe (JPI Climate) and Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPI CH) are pleased to announce the launch of a Collaborative Research Action (CRA) on the theme Climate and Cultural Heritage – Collaborative research to address urgent challenges.

This Call aims to support transdisciplinary and convergent research approaches on cultural heritage and climate change, to foster collaboration among the research community across several regions, and to contribute to knowledge advances and policy change at the global level. Applicants are invited to submit research proposals that address at least one of the three call themes:

1. The Impact of Climate Change on Cultural Heritage;
2. Cultural Heritage as a Resource for Climate Mitigation and Adaptation;
3. Sustainable Solutions for Heritage.

Please read the Call for Proposals and National Annexes for further details about the themes, project requirements and timetable. Please note the deadline for submitting a proposal is on Friday 8 September, 20:00 UTC.

Details of the call and the application process are provided via the application portal bfgo.org.

Please contact the Thematic Program Office at cultural-heritage-climate-2023@anr.fr and cch@nwo.nl; and/or Funding Organizations’ contact point, as indicated in the annexes below.

Info Event and Matchmaking

The Thematic Program Office has presented the CRA and answered questions from prospective applicants at an online Info Event on Tuesday 16 May, 10:00 UTC. You can watch the recording here and access the FAQ here.

An online Matchmaking Platform, which aims at supporting consortium building and fostering networking, particularly for Early Career Researchers, is also be available to all prospective applicants. 

If you would like to join the matchmaking platform, please sign up using this form.

Timeline

• Launch: 26 April 2023
• Info Event: 16 May, 10:00-11:00 UTC
• Deadline for submitting Full Proposals : 8 September 2023, 20:00 UTC
• Eligibility checks : September
• Evaluation by Panel of Experts: October – November
• Funding decision: November
• Funding decision communicated to applicants: December
• Projects start: January – June 2024

Project Requirements

• Proposals must address at least one of the three call themes, with cross-cutting linkages across all three themes encouraged.
• Proposals must be submitted by a Consortium of minimum three Principal Investigators (PIs) from three different countries, which also involves at least one Societal Partner (SP).
• LPIs and PIs must request funding from a Funding Organization, on behalf of their host institutions, and cannot participate in a self-funded or in-kind capacity. Please note that a researcher may be involved in a maximum of two proposals as PI (except for research applicants based in Lithuania who can only be involved in one proposal as PI or other primary project implementer) and cannot be involved in more than one proposal as LPI.
• Additional consortium members may participate in a self-funded capacity if the minimum requirement of participants from three countries requesting funding from three Funding Organizations is met. They can join the Consortium as Associate Principal Investigators (API) or Societal Partners (SP), depending on their expected roles in the project.
• Consortia must be transnational and transdisciplinary.
• The projects must last up to 3 years (36 months) and start no later than 30 June 2024.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

This table reflects the final confirmed list of Funding Organizations for this CRA. Any organization previously listed on this table will not be able to commit funding before the full proposal submission deadline and should therefore not be listed as a funder in proposals.

Background

Joint Programming Initiatives (JPIs) were established to pool national research efforts and foster the implementation of the European Research Area (ERA) to address grand societal challenges. JPIs are flexible intergovernmental partnerships with the aim of better aligning the research and innovation investments spent at the national level. They involve countries that voluntarily agree to work in partnership towards common visions encapsulated in Strategic Research and Innovation Agendas and implemented through joint activities.

The Belmont Forum is a group of funding agencies from around the world that support transdisciplinary, globally-representative research groups and coproduction/participatory methods to address various global environmental change topics. Topics are addressed through CRAs and the Cultural Heritage and Climate CRA is among three research calls that will be launched in 2023.

The call results from a White Paper jointly developed and published in March 2022 by the two JPIs and from joint workshops held with the Belmont Forum in June and September 2022 aimed at identifying and incorporating research priorities from Africa, the Americas and Asia.

Climate, Environment, and Health II

Belmont Forum’s Latest Collaborative Research Action will address the nexus of Climate, Environment, and Health. The purpose of this call is to address an unmet need to promote, mobilize, and establish an inclusive, transdisciplinary funding scheme, through the preservation and celebration of diverse communities, research topics, ecosystems, and creative transformative solutions. One ambitious goal for this CRA will hopefully create a comprehensive culture shift through education, research, service, and advocacy to inspire a world where all animals and humans can thrive — through the integration of human medicine, veterinary medicine, and environmental science — and by adapting and protecting Earth’s natural systems for generations to come.

Call themes:

• Theme 1 – Decision-science of environmental behavior and implementation
• Theme 2 – Food, Environment, and Biological Security
• Theme 3 – Climate Risks to Ecosystems & Populations

Details of the call are located above and the application process will not open to the public until 15 April 2023, 20:00:00 UTC, via the application portal https://bfgo.org. Pre-Proposals are due 15 July 2023 at 20:00:00 UTC.  THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL  17 July 2023 at 20:00:00 UTC.

Capacity building activities will span from 15 February 2023 until January 2024. These events will be updated through our social media channels or collated within the Belmont Forum calendar (www.belmontforum.org/calendar).

There are also training modules that will be made available by announcing through social media, news announcements on this website, or on the calendar mentioned above. To clarify the application and eligibility process, Belmont Forum will host several workshops and seminars with the funding agencies; additionally, Belmont Forum will also create an interactive webpage to help applicants collate the information provided by the group of program coordinators.

Update on Timeline, 11 July 2024:

Reviews are currently being completed and we anticipate having final recommendations from the Panel of Experts by
mid September 2024. At that point, Consortium Leads will receive notice about next steps.

Past Recorded Events:

Requirement:
Proposals eligible to receive funding from at least three participating Partner Organizations established in three different countries and should include researchers from the natural sciences (including climate), health/medical sciences, social and economic sciences or humanities, as well as societal partners (i.e. public health organizations, civil society organizations, and non-governmental organizations). Researchers and societal partners from countries not supported by any of the partner agencies can participate in the research project at their own expense.

For more information contact info@belmontforum.org, insert in the title “CEH2 query”

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Registration Form
• Registration Form Instructions
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions
  Annex Comparison Tool

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

* Thematic Program Office

Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production

The Belmont Forum is pleased to announce the launch of a collaborative research networking call on the theme: Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production.

Current patterns of global development based on people’s continuous extraction and exploitation of natural resources are not sustainable, and a societal transition to systems of sustainable consumption and production (SSCP) is urgently needed. In an attempt to promote co-development of research through science and stakeholder-based approaches to attain SSCP, Belmont Forum has launched a call for research proposals.

Call themes:

• Theme 1 – Transdisciplinary research to help transition to green economies with sustainable systems of consumption and production
• Theme 2 – Sustainable and Resilient industries and their governance systems
• Theme 3 – Social Inequality and Environmental Justice
• Theme 4 – Integrating new technologies, policies, and practices into everyday life

Details of the call and the application process are provided via the application portal https://bfgo.org. There are also training modules available for proposers on the Belmont Forum YouTube channel. Before starting to prepare proposals, applicants are advised to contact their funding organisation(s) as listed in the annex documents for the call.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Registration Form
• Registration Form Instructions
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Integrated Approaches to Human Migration/Mobility in an Era of Rapid Global Change

The Belmont Forum is pleased to announce the launch of a collaborative research networking call on the theme: Integrated Approaches to Human Migration/Mobility in an Era of Rapid Global Change.

We solicit proposals that contribute to an integrated systems approach to accurately characterize migration and mobility and its intersection with Global Change, both closely related and intersecting phenomena. Successful proposals will focus on illuminating the determinants of migration – why people move, do not move, from and to where and when, and on what time scale, in relation to Global Change processes like environmental and climate change, demographic changes, consumption patterns, energy use and land-use. Exploration of dependencies, linkages, and / or impacts between Global Change, migration and mobility, human constructs, social science and humanities approaches, and other studies are encouraged. Within this theme, there are three areas to consider including (1) data and methodology, (2) policy, and (3) human-centric approaches that integrate human perspectives and needs in all steps and aspects of a project and beyond.

Call themes:

• Area 1 – synthesizing, integrating, and supplementing data and models
• Area 2 – integrative governance and legal and policy frameworks
• Area 3 – human-centric approaches to studying and integrating data and frameworks on vulnerable communities

Details of the call and the application process are provided via the application portal https://bfgo.org. There are also training modules available for proposers on the Belmont Forum YouTube channel. Before starting to prepare proposals, applicants are advised to contact their funding organisation(s) as listed in the annex documents for the call.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Transdisciplinary Research for Pathways to Sustainability

The Belmont Forum is pleased to announce the launch of a collaborative research networking call on the theme: Transdisciplinary Research for Pathways to Sustainability.

The goal of this CRA is to provide a science base for achieving sustainability goals. The CRA will support 1-2 years of collaborative research networking activities that focus on integrated qualitative and quantitative approaches to develop Earth-system-based transformation pathways for sustainable development.

Details of the call and the application process are provided via the application portal https://bfgo.org. There are also training modules available for proposers on the Belmont Forum YouTube channel. Before starting to prepare proposals, applicants are advised to contact their funding organisation(s) as listed in the annex documents for the call.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Towards Sustainability of Soils and Groundwater for Society

The Belmont Forum is pleased to announce the launch of a collaborative research call on the theme: Towards Sustainability of Soils and Groundwater for Society. The goal of this CRA is to produce the necessary knowledge and propose solutions to maintain well-functioning soils and groundwater systems in the Critical Zone1, or rehabilitate them where degraded, through:

1. Better understanding of the long- and shorter-time dynamics and functions of soils and groundwater, impacts from societal (including economics) decisions, integrative management practices, public policies, and how these systems have been transformed; and,
2. Providing avenues, pathways, and narratives toward transformation of management practices of the whole soil and groundwater systems through a fundamental shift of socio-economic actors’ practices and related-decisions making processes.

Details of the call and the application process are provided via the application portal https://bfgo.org. There are also training modules available for proposers on the Belmont Forum YouTube channel. Before starting to prepare proposals, applicants are advised to contact their funding organisation(s) as listed in the annex documents for the call.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Registration Form
• Registration Form Instructions
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Climate, Environment, and Health

The Belmont Forum, in collaboration with Future Earth, announced a new Collaborative Research Action for transdisciplinary research, which will improve understanding of the pathways between climate, environment and health to protect and promote human health and well-being in the face of climate challenges.

Multilateral, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research projects will investigate where significant uncertainties exist that are barriers to action; address complex climate, ecosystem and health pathways to determine processes underlying causal links; and foster the use of scientific information and climate-related decision support tools to better inform planning and enhance resilience.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions
• Expression of Interest Form
• Expression of Interest Form Instructions
• CEH Open Webinar Presentation

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Disaster Risk, Reduction and Resilience

The Disaster Risk, Reduction and Resilience (DR³) call responds to the growing need for assessment and reduction of disaster risk, collaborative co-design of resilience strategies with a breadth of stakeholders, and scientifically and technologically enhanced responses to disasters. In the context of this call, disasters are framed as extreme environmental events that negatively impact coupled human-natural systems. The generation of these events may have natural and/or anthropogenic causes.

Each project team must consist of, at a minimum, natural scientists, social scientists and humanities, and stakeholders. They must also be eligible for support from a minimum of 3 funders providing resources for DR³. Specific questions about support or themes can be addressed to program contacts within the organizational annexes.

Finalized in 2023.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions
• DR3 CRA Presentation

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Resilience in Rapidly Changing Arctic Systems

The Belmont Forum is pleased to announce the launch of a second Collaborative Research Action focused on the Arctic region. The title of this international funding opportunity is Resilience in a Rapidly Changing Arctic. The call aims at bringing together researchers and other expertise across the globe to develop proposals from integrated teams of scientists and stakeholders to address key areas of arctic resilience understanding and action. This collaboration of academic and non-academic knowledge systems constitutes a transdisciplinary approach that will advance not only understanding of the fundamentals of arctic resilience but also spur action, inform decision-making, and translate into solutions for resilience.

Details of the call and the application process are provided via the application portal https://bfgo.org. There are also training modules available for proposers on the Belmont Forum YouTube channel. Before starting to prepare proposals, applicants are advised to contact their funding organisation(s) as listed in the annex documents for the call.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Transdisciplinary Research for Ocean Sustainability

This CRA call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of ocean sustainability, using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal #14 (Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development) as the overall framework.

This call encourages global partnerships of academics and non-academics to address one or more of the following topics:

• Pathways toward a sustainable and equitable use of oceans
• Accounting for and minimizing impacts of global change

This call aims to support medium-size research projects with a direction of three to four years, with a recommended budget of up to €1.5 million. Note that some contributions are in-kind. See organizational annexes for specific constraints and requirements of your funding organization(s). Projects are expected to start in 2020.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Registration Form
• Registration Form Instructions
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions
• Data and Digital Outputs Management Plan (DDOMP) Guide

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Science-driven e-Infrastructure Innovation (SEI) for the Enhancement of Transnational, Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Data Use in Environmental Change

This CRA targets initiatives that are well positioned to bring together environmental, social and economic scientists with data scientists, computational scientists, and e-infrastructure and cyber-infrastructure developers and providers for a shared goal: to solve methodological, technological and/or procedural challenges facing interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary environmental change research that involves working with large, diverse and transnational, multi-source data. The SEI CRA will closely link research thinking and technological innovation toward accelerating the full path of discovery-driven data use and open science. This will enable a broader scientific community to benefit from the identified new and potentially disruptive demonstrators or pilots toward solutions.

Finalized in 2023.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions
• Data and Digital Outputs Management Plan
• National Annexes
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services II

The Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services II is a follow up to the first Belmont Forum Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services CRA. This collaborative funding opportunity is a joint call with the Belmont Forum and BiodivERsA.

The Call will address the two following major (non-exclusive) priorities:

• Development and application of scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services across spatial scales of relevance to multiple types of decisions
• Consideration of multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services in biodiversity scenarios

The call aims at supporting proposals that explicitly address a scenario dimension, taking into account the following definition of scenarios: “Scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services are the outputs of the combination of scenarios of indirect drivers and direct drivers – such as land use change, invasive alien species, overexploitation, climate change or pollution – and models of impacts of these drivers on biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Finalized in 2022.

Call Documents

• All Call Documents
• Data Policy
• Registration Form
• Proposal Form
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Transformations 2 Sustainability

The Transformations 2 Sustainability (T2S) is a collaborative funding program initiated by the Belmont Forum and the NORFACE Network. The objectives of T2S are:

• To develop an understanding of and promote research on transformations to sustainability, which are of significant social, economic and policy concern
• To build capacity, overcome fragmentation and have a lasting impact on both society and the research landscape by cultivating durable research collaboration across multiple borders, disciplinary boundaries, and with practitioners and societal partners

Twelve transnational research projects have been recommended for funding, totaling 11.5 million euros, by the Belmont Forum and NORFACE joint programme Transformations to Sustainability (T2S). The twelve teams with 56 principal investigators will undertake research in transformations to sustainability areas ranging from groundwater, mining, urban areas and land-registration, to the role of migration and intellectual property rights in sustainability transitions. The projects involve researchers from a wide variety of disciplines working together across the globe, from Brazil to Sweden and from Japan to Burkina Faso. More information on the funded projects will be announced when the awards have been finalized.

Finalized in 2022.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Programme Text
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions
• Data Management Plan Template
• Funding Agency Budget Templates
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Food-Water-Energy Nexus / Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)

The Food-Water-Energy Nexus / Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI) is a joint call by the Belmont Forum and the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe to bring together the fragmented research and expertise across the globe to find innovative solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge.

The call seeks to develop more resilient, applied urban solutions to benefit a much wider range of stakeholders. The rapid urbanization of the world’s population underscores the importance of this focus. International partners are invited to develop solutions for this challenge.

Finalized in 2022.

Call Documents

• Call for African Scientists
• Call for Proposals

Climate Predictability and Inter-Regional Linkages

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

• Understanding past and current variability and trends of regional extremes
• Predictability of near-future variability and trends of regional extremes
• Co-construction of near-term forecast products with users

Finalized in 2021.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Pre-Proposal Form
• Pre-Proposal Form Instructions
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions
• Selection Criteria

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Mountains as Sentinels of Change

The Mountains as Sentinels of Change call aimed at fostering research on climate, environmental and related societal change in mountain regions by facilitating research with respect to the following:

• Drivers of change
• Ecosystems and biodiversity
• Water
• Hazards, vulnerability and risks
• Adaptation and resilience

Finalized in 2020.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Pre-Proposal Form
• Pre-Proposal Form Instructions
• Proposal Form
• Form Instructions
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Arctic Observing and Research for Sustainability

The purpose of this call was to develop projects that utilize existing arctic observing systems, datasets and models to evaluate key sustainability challenges and opportunities in the arctic region across one or more of four possible themes:

• The natural and living environment
• The built environment and infrastructures
• Natural resource management and development
• Governance

Finalized in 2021.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services

This call stimulated networking and capacity building for innovative research across social and natural science disciplines. Funded projects address the following:

• Harmonizing and integrating development and application of biodiversity scenarios across spatial scales of relevance to multiple types of decisions
• Harmonizing and integrating consideration of multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem services

Finalized in 2018.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Proposal Form
• Proposal Form Instructions
• Selection Criteria

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Food Security and Land Use Change

This call was designed to increase understanding of the dynamic spatial scale interactions between food security and land use. The focus was on the following topics:

• Land use change impacts on food systems
• Food systems dynamics as driver of land use changes
• Feedback loop interactions between land use change and food security dynamics

Finalized in 2018.

Call Documents

• Call for Proposals
• Background
• Further Information and Guidelines

Call Documents – Funding Annexes

Coastal Vulnerability

The purpose of this call was to promote the development, comparison, and transfer of coastal scientific approaches. The focus was on the vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation options of coastal societal, managed, and natural systems to multiple drivers.

Finalized in 2018.

Freshwater Security

This call was created to address the following:

• Identification and characterization of the interactions between natural processes and human practices that govern water budgeting in selected regions
• Development of approaches that support the evolution of resilient communities/regions through improved seasonal forecasting of droughts, taking into account natural and socio-economic drivers

Finalized in 2018.