QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER — July 2022 |
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Open Funding Opportunities! |
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Collaborative Research Actions
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Migration 2022 CLOSING SOON!
Integrated Approaches to Human Migration/Mobility in an Era of Rapid Global Change (Migration 2022) is closing on 29 July 2022. Successful proposals will focus on illuminating the determinants of migration in relation to Global Change processes like environmental and climate change, demographic changes, consumption patterns, energy use, and land use. Look a the published Call documentation and get your proposals in today!
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Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2022 |
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Find out about the SRI 2022 outcomes! |
The 2022 Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress (SRI) was held online and onsite in Pretoria, South Africa on June 20 - 24. The congress was full of vibrant, thought-provoking and thoughtful in-person and virtual sessions. If you missed any of the sessions, you can watch the Congress Recordings here!
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Our Belmont Forum Members met at the SRI2022 |
We had the pleasure of bringing Belmont Forum Members together to meet in a hybrid format at SRI 2022. The two-day meeting was aimed at providing Members and Partners with opportunities to engage in pre-scoping activities and think about where they would like future Collaborative Research Actions (CRAs) to be developed.
We heard from several groups who have been exploring the broader research landscape - identifying gaps and needs across several spaces relevant to the Belmont Forum’s Global Environmental Change Mandate, including IPBES & ARA. We also reviewed the outcomes of the COP26 and the Global Funders Forum (GFF) to help identify where challenges and needs have already been identified by the global community, and to consider how these overlap with international and national commitments of our members. Coming out of this meeting we were also able to identify two collaborative research actions that have been approved to go forward for scoping: Climate and Culture and the Amazon Initiative.
Interested in learning more? You can find the recording here: Day 1 and Day 2, and the agenda here.
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Following the scoping meetings held in June, NERC/UKRI will hold a Funders Meeting on 26th July 2022 (Tuesday), 12.00-13.30 British Summer Time (UTC+1), to discuss further the CRA Urban Green and Blue Spaces.
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Climate Environment and Health II (CEH2) |
This CRA follows from CHE1. It aims to maximize collective efforts and produce actionable science that protects both environment and health. It will explore questions that enhance understanding of the connections between climate, environment and health in order to provide knowledge and information that reduces climate-sensitive health risks.
The following Expert Scoping Meeting for the European region will be held on 13, 14, and 15 (TBC) September 2022.
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A different type of scientist is needed to lead team-based, trans-disciplinary science and innovation in the 21st century. This initiative would focus on recruiting, training and networking our next generation of scientists that will give our science communities more legitimacy across communities.
The next Scoping Meetings will be scheduled for the following months, stay tuned!
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This CRA aims to build upon the network activities and lessons learned generated during the ongoing Pathways to Sustainability I call. In this next iteration, the call will focus on research that develops innovative solutions and/or synthesizes positive and negative inter-linkages between the economy, technology, institutions and the environment, climate, biodiversity, and human well-being. This will support the co-design of sustainable development pathways.
The next Scoping Meetings will be scheduled for the following months, stay tuned!
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This CRA aims to identify and fund relevant and pressing priorities for research at the interface between cultural heritage and climate change. The two major knowledge gaps that are expected to be addressed are a) The impact of climate change on cultural heritage, and b) Opportunities for climate mitigation and sustainable development.
The first Funders Scoping event will take place on 28 September 2022, and the Experts Scoping for the Europe/Africa/Americas/Asia regions will be organized for 7 September 2022.
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This CRA will explore the integration of knowledge towards the sustainability of the Amazon region and its functions including the socio-economic and environmental processes. It will aim to identify and help to implement measures to sustain and conserve the livelihoods of communities in the region. It will also explore questions related to environmental justice and the protection of knowledge, innovations and practices of indigenous and local communities.
The next Scoping events will be scheduled for the following months, stay tuned!
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The prioritized topics for this initiative include: climate change (including health), data and biospecimen governance, epidemic preparedness and global health security, food and nutrition security, the fourth industrial revolution, gender and science, genomics and precision medicine, maternal and neonatal health, and mental health.
The following Funders Scoping event will take place on 31 August 2022.
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Belmont Forum Plenary Open Session: |
The next Belmont Forum Plenary will include an open session on 27 October 2022, with the aim of opening a dialogue with interested organizations to knowing more about the CRAs in implementation and scoping processes. |
Other Belmont Forum events |
Workshop on Transdisciplinary Research at SRI 2022:
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The workshop was organized in partnership with the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) and was held in two sessions. The first session was focused on sharing foundations for transdisciplinary (TD) science and knowledge co-production, it was also open dialogue with participants about the meaning of transdisciplinarity.
The second session explored best practices and lessons learned in applying a transdisciplinary approach to research in diverse geographic settings. The TD teams from Start, NICH-Arctic and Jawic shared insights from projects developed in the Arctic, Africa and the Caribbean.
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Workshop on Science and Policy at SRI 2022 |
This session was organized in partnership with IAI and Latinoamerica21. The activity focused on reflecting on providing a basic understanding of how to position a discourse and provide solid arguments to improve, expand and create public policy, so policymakers and other stakeholders can work on solutions as problems and challenges emerge.
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CRA Oceans Workshop: ”Meeting the Challenges of Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research” |
This workshop was organized by the CRA Oceans team and was facilitated by: Prof. Dr. Esther Turnhout and Dr. Josie Chambers. The workshop is a UN Ocean Decade activity.
Watch the recordings here
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Upcoming Events at SSUNGA77
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Starting in September 2022: Project report review for CRAs |
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The Belmont Forum will support a series of meetings to review project data with the Group of Program Coordinators (GPC) and Thematic Program Offices (TPO) for active Collaborative Research Actions (CRA) beginning in September. Scheduling for these meetings will begin soon.
Co-designed outputs may include a web-based dataset catalogue of shared or open access datasets developed by projects, and updates to individual project profile pages on belmontforum.org.
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Global challenges are changing the paradigms of science |
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The IPBES Diverse Values Assessment |
The IPBES ValuesAssessment was approved by representatives of the 139 Member States of IPBES in July 2022. The report was built to support decision-makers in understanding and accounting for the wide range of nature’s values in policy decisions to address the current biodiversity crisis. Find the media release and the summary for policymakers here.
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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.
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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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