QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER — July 2020
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Updates from Belmont Forum
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Message from the Executive Director
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Since our last newsletter, the world and how we live and work in it has changed tremendously. For the safety of our colleagues and community, we have embraced online and telephonic workflows, postponed our inaugural Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress to 2021, and shifted this year to a virtual plenary. We are adapting and implementing new good practices for digital engagement, trying to address the digital divide through a variety of connection platforms and technologies, and learning from stakeholders methods of respectful communication for continued collaboration in times of restricted mobility.
In the past two months, we have held more than 30 virtual engagements to support networking development, synthesis, transdisciplinary and data management training, and valorization amongst projects. If you haven’t seen the incredible project videos on our YouTube channel, please take a look at the playlists. These multimedia clips were an insightful and engaging way to connect with the project teams, understand their aspirations and accomplishments, and share their excitement and learning with a broader audience.
Speaking of broader audiences, we recently we hosted our first virtual scoping events which brought together the largest number of geographically and institutionally diverse participants in Belmont Forum history to share their expertise and programmatic knowledge on Pathways to Sustainability and Migration and Climate Change. This method of scoping could become the new normal, allowing more viewpoints and a greater range of funding organizations to come together and develop transnational, transdisciplinary calls for proposals. We will continue to experiment with inclusive meeting designs to connect new resource providers and sectors to opportunities of shared interest.
We recognize that COVID-19 has affected us all but in different ways and with different pathways to recovery. We are extending the same flexibility we do to funding partnerships to award extensions, supporting new cohort communication, and creating opportunities for all Belmont Forum projects to come together (virtually, for now) to share learning and experiences to help each other through these challenging times. We maintain currency with shifts in research priorities and programming to ensure that our calls for proposals are relevant and responsive.
Thank you for your sustained engagement with the Belmont Forum. We wish you continued good health and hope to see you online soon.
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Sustainability Research & Innovation 2020 is now SRI 2021!
Future Earth and the Belmont Forum joined forces to establish an annual marquis congress. This congress will allow the world’s foremost research and innovation communities to come together to share successes, exchange views, and work across disciplines and sectors to support a global transformation to sustainability.
Our first convening will bring together a global community of transdisciplinary research and innovation in an engaging, interactive format, allowing leaders in sustainability innovation to work alongside the world’s leading sustainability scientists, and to engage policy leaders working to support the major international policy processes supporting this transition. Bookmark the website:
https://sri2021.org/.
Regarding the spread of the COVID-19, the organizers are committed to go ahead with planning the SRI2021 events.
We are monitoring the situation and will send updates about virtual registration for SRI2021, new program offerings, and other considerations for travel. We are seeking sponsors to support facilitated and engaged remote activities for the best possible congress experience.
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25-29 May, 2020
3-sessions - Transdisciplinary co-design, integration and implementation Workshops
30 June, 2020
Data & Digital Objects Management Plans training
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10, 11, 14 August, 2020
Advanced TD workshop: Maintaining Stakeholder Relationships
9-10 September 2020
Virtual Capacity Building Workshop for Early-career Researchers from Africa by Future Earth |
Register
using the link here
- deadline 17 August, 2020
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Collaborative Research Actions (CRAs)
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13-14 May, 2020
20-21 May, 2020
1-5 June, 2020
T2S mid-term through multiple 1-2 hour webinars
15-16 June, 2020
16, 18 June, 2020
17-18 June, 2020
22-23 June, 2020
24 June, 2020
8-9 July, 2020
10, 14, 16 July, 2020
Migration scoping
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LAUNCHED
Transdisciplinary
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esearch for Pathways to Sustainability
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The Belmont Forum and partners are supporting 1-2 years of collaborative research networking that focuses on integrated qualitative and quantitative approaches to develop Earth-system-based transformation pathways for sustainable development. The initiative invites its participants to consider all important interactions among the sustainable development goals, and address cross-cutting issues among at a minimum three or more explicitly identified Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Projects are free to prioritize the interactions to be explored, based on their own local, national, regional, or global context as long as they address the
Belmont Challenge providing knowledge for understanding, mitigating, and adapting to global environmental change. Participants are required to use a transdisciplinary approach to engage society at large. This approach will ensure ownership of science outcomes as well as relevance to both policy-makers and decision-makers. Additionally, this approach should lead to social acceptance and empowerment.
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LAUNCHED
Towards Sustainability of Soils and Groundwater for Society
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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 Zone, 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,
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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.
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Upcoming Events and Due Dates:
Plenary documents deadline: 1 September 2020
Virtual Plenary 2020: 13-15 October 2020
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Connect with the Belmont Forum through Social Media
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The Belmont Forum is looking to connect with you! Consult the calendar of events on our website, and follow us on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Use the hashtag:
#BelmontFunded
We accept submission for news items and resources by email: info@belmontforum.org.
We will help you engage more widely and provide a showcase window to share more than your science!
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