QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER — April 2021 |
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Actively Engaging in 2021 |
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Meet our newest awardees!
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ABRESO Abandonment and rebound: Societal views on landscape- and land-use change and their impacts on water and soils
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BLUEGEM Biosphere and Land Use Exchanges with Groundwater and soils in Earth system Models
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INCLUSIVE Stakeholder-supported decision making for sustainable conjunctive management of soil and groundwater
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INTERACTION Integrated Assessment of Climate Impacts on Ecosystem Functions and Productivity of Critical-Zone Eco-Hydrology
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PRISMARCTYC Permafrost degradation impacts on soils, human societies, water resources and carbon cycle
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VULCAR-FATE Global change impact on vulnerable carbon reservoirs: carbon sequestration and emissions in soils and waters From the Arctic to the Equator
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AirGEO - Citizens' empowerment through biomonitoring of air quality in response to mining, recycling and using georesources
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COVPATH - Coviability Path, a new framework to sustainably link mankind and biosphere
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DREAMS - Developing REsilient African cities and their urban environMent facing the pro-vision of essential urban SDGs
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Eco2Health - Health and agriculture sustainability through interdisciplinary surveillance and risk assessment platform of global emerging zoonotic diseases
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Fish2Sustainability - Enhancing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to the sustainable development goal
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PACPATH - Pacific Ocean Pathways in support of sustainable development: an integrated approach
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PREMISS - Partnership for Research to Enhance Methodologies in Sustainability Science
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RREFlood - The Residual Risk of Extreme Floods: A Challenge for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
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SAM Consortium - Guiding the pursuit for sustainability by co-developing a Sustainable Agriculture Matrix
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SCARIA - Towards sustainable community-based mitigation of rodent issues in African cities
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SDG-Pathfinding - SDG-pathfinding: Co-creating pathways for sustainable development in Africa
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SUSTAINDAM - Sustainable management and planning of hydropower generation in West Africa under climate change and land use / land cover dynamics
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UComNetSus-Africa - Building urban community networks for sustainable cities in Africa
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Connecting with the SRI 2021 Congress |
The first Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress is about 6 weeks away, but we aren't waiting until June to get the program rolling. A series of free SRI Talks and pre-Congress events began in February addressing each of the 5 pillars of SRI2021:
- Sustainability for Whom?
- Sustainable Solutions from the Global South
- Knowledge to Action
- Integrated Action for the SDGs
- Resilience
If you missed the talks on the first three pillars earlier this year, don't worry! These were recorded and are available on the SRI Congress Platform. To access this content, you just need to sign up for the next free SRI Talk in mid-May on Integrated Action for the SDGs or register for the full SRI program.
In addition to the SRI Talk series, Belmont Forum is hosting several special free online events in the lead up to and at the SRI Congress:
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Be Belmont Applicable offers insights into preparing transnational, transdisciplinary proposals. On May 17, a global panel of Belmont Forum awardees will share their experience and tips for bringing together an eligible consortium, engaging stakeholders in the co-design and co-implementation, and co-creating actionable science. On May 19, a technical session will also help interested proposers navigate the BFgo system and access online resources to support their submissions to Belmont Forum. Be Belmont Applicable workshops are free events with an open registration. You can learn more about this event here.
- The Virtual Idea Market provides an opportunity for students, early career researchers, young entrepreneurs, and start-up green innovators to pitch their ideas to a global sustainability audience and grow their networks with other changemakers. Presentation and networking for the Idea Market submissions will take place during SRI and registration is required, but a number of scholarships are available to offset registration costs. For more details on how to be part of the Market and connect with other Congress offerings, please visit this our connect with SRI page.
- We will be navigating different giving cultures and experimenting with funding partnerships at the Partnering Across the Resource Ecosystem roundtable workshop. The Forum invites investors, financiers, and donors supporting the SDGs to work together through collaborative scenarios to identify how we can work together, build a common vocabulary, and find flexible solutions to partnership obstacles. Outcomes from the workshop will be shared in a handbook after the SRI Congress. Please register and help us move discussion into action!
Please check the Connect with SRI webpage on belmontforum.org for more events and opportunities to engage as we look forward to the launch of the 1st SRI Congress!
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The Congress itself will run June 12-15, 2021. We will be connecting a global audience through the Congress Pathable Platform and offering content at all hours to make it convenient to all time zones. The program includes more than 100 sessions, fora, trainings, workshops, and events on all aspects of sustainability. Some program highlights:
- Sustainability of biodiversity conservation: too expensive for humans or can we find solutions?
- Addressing systemic risks in social-ecological systems: mountains as contexts for evidence and action
- Tackling air quality and human health with new thinking and technologies
- Green finance: overcoming capital cost barriers to low-carbon energy projects through public-private partnerships
- University transformations for transdisciplinarity and the SDGs
- A dialogue forum for learning from previous experiences of the stakeholders: what are our urgent missions on disaster risk reduction and societal resilience building?
- Critical social science perspectives on transformations to sustainability - emerging framing and approaches
- Building resilience through youth leadership in environmental education
- Tradeoffs and synergies in ocean conflict transformation
- Indigenous data sovereignty - principles, partnerships, and tools for sustainability
- The (Sustainable) Future is Female: advancing gender equality in sustainability leadership
Please visit the full program online. New side events are being added each week to the main program to connect sustainability researchers, innovators, implementers, and funders. With such a rich program bringing together a diversity of knowledge holders, we can't wait to welcome everyone to SRI2021!
Register today to be part of this milestone event. A registration fee helps support the delivery of this exceptional global program. Scholarships and registration waivers are available. We hope to see you online in June!
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It's always good to hear from project participants! Even with a global pandemic and restricted mobility, projects have been finding ways to connect with one another and work in innovative ways with stakeholders. We want to take a moment to highlight the insightful, high-quality products that have been shared with us by project teams, working at these difficult times. For more links to project activity, follow us on Twitter or LinkedIn. |
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Publications, articles, blogs, and interviews:
- Jordan Water Project / FUSE
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Upcoming Events:
Working outside the box: stories, approaches and tools for transdisciplinary research workshop: May 6/7 Registration and details.
Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production CRA Experts' Scoping:
Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress: 12-15 June 2021
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Connect with the Belmont Forum on social media and online! |
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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, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Use the hashtag: #BelmontFunded in your online posts or tag us directly.
NEW: Visit our CONNECT pages at www.belmontforum.org/connect.
COMING SOON: The Ocean Sustainability Coordination Team is working with LUX to deliver a CONNECT with OCEANS page to network projects together and with other ocean and transdisciplinary science and action.
We accept submission for news items and resources by e-mail: info@belmontforum.org.
We will help showcase your science and action and connect you with our network!
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