Future Opportunities in Scoping

Future Leaders

Approved for Scoping: 2020
Lead BF Member: NSF
Estimated launch timeframe: 2024

Brief Summary:

A different type of scientist is needed to lead team-based, trans-disciplinary science and innovation in the 21st century. The speed and magnitude of GEC demands that tomorrow’s science leaders, experts and practitioners be well-trained in their technical skills, and yet they will also need to be nimble and fluent across science disciplines, with collaborative leadership skills, and communication skills. This proposed Belmont Forum Program would invest in recruiting, training and networking our next-generation of scientists that better represent humanity & will give our science more legitimacy across communities.

Scoping activities:

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Pathways II

Approved for Scoping: 2022
Lead BF Member: NSF
Estimated launch timeframe: TBD

Brief Summary:

A different type of scientist is needed to lead team-based, trans-disciplinary science and innovation in the 21st century. The speed and magnitude of GEC demands that tomorrow’s science leaders, experts and practitioners be well-trained in their technical skills, and yet they will also need to be nimble and fluent across science disciplines, with collaborative leadership skills, and communication skills. This proposed Belmont Forum Program would invest in recruiting, training and networking our next-generation of scientists that better represent humanity & will give our science more legitimacy across communities.

Scoping activities:

For more information contact info@belmontforum.org, insert “Pathways II” in the subject line or sign up our mailing list.

Africa Regional

Approved for Scoping: 2019 (taken forward in 2021)
Lead BF Member: NRF
Estimated launch timeframe: TBD

Brief Summary:

This call aims to bring together international, transdisciplinary research teams led by African scientists and stakeholders to address the priorities and needs that they have identified. The goal is to support integrative, qualitative and quantitative analyses and the employment of systems-based methodological approaches, where African capacities fall short. Because of the strong connectivity between public and private sector already present in the African scientific enterprise, this African Regional Call will allow the Forum to engage with players across the African private sector, philanthropic and deep impact investment leads, public sector stakeholders, and international partners interested in supporting an African Regional Call for proposals.

Scoping activities:

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Environmental Peacebuilding

Approved for Scoping: 2022
Lead BF Member: RCN
Presented by: Future Earth
Estimated launch timeframe: Scoping complete October 2024, Launch Spring 2025 at the Climate Diplomacy at The Hague in February

Brief Summary:

Increasing populations, uneven distributions of resources (natural, built, technical, informational), and misaligned governance instruments and  institutions can create stresses that lead to conflict or increase the vulnerability of communities to disasters.  Environmental peacebuilding (EP) focuses on this nexus of society, environment, and security to co-develop options, informed decisions, and efficient governance to lower or eliminate the potential for conflict and support healthy, resilient communities.  

Scoping activities:

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Defining Urban Transitions

Approved for Scoping: 2022
Lead BF Member: TBD
Presented by: Defining Urban transitions JPI
Estimated launch timeframe: TBD
Brief Summary:

Scoping activities:

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Vulnerability and Resilience Management for socio-environmental systems in exposed territories

Approved for Scoping: BF Members Meeting June 2023
Lead BF Member: ANR/AllEnvi/NTSC
Estimated launch timeframe: April 2025

Brief Summary:

Within the current context of increasing environmental risks, scientists and disaster experts have been working together for decades around communities such as the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). The need is now to go one step further to better integrate the complexity of socio-environmental systems, so as to define, formalize and implement a holistic risk science. This integration implies the theoretical roadmap of sustainability science, namely a trans-disciplinary approach that sums up knowledge and involves all concerned parties in the definition of adequate risk management solutions, but requires specific knowledge gaps to be addressed urgently. Taking inspiration from the current pandemic crisis, this CRA aims at defining and promoting “new” risks management concepts that better accounts for global change and the transformations of the relations between societies and nature. Within this holistic approach that expands the research conducted so far within the DR3 Collaborative Research Action of the Belmont Forum, this proposed CRA investigates the links between the vulnerability of socio-environmental systems in exposed territories and their capacity to converge to a resilient future. Expected outcomes include risk science developments in line with a sustainability science perspective, co-production of knowledge from the different disciplines, their implementation on highly vulnerable territories for informed governance, and the rise of a new generation of scientists and stakeholders able to better cope for ever-rising environmental risks.

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