Deadline: 14-Oct-22
The Cluster of Collaboration (CLOC) Conéctate A+ is launching a small grants call for collaborative research to encourage the research community to address pressing knowledge needs in science, policy, practice, and society. The calls focus on the areas of climate change, ecosystems, and health in the Tropical Andes and Central America region within the framework of sustainable development.
Conéctate A+ aims to strengthen the capacities needed to achieve the SDGs in the tropical Andes and Central America region by providing a platform that promotes knowledge exchange, generates information, and fosters academic collaboration opportunities among Swiss universities and other key actors that play an active role in formulating and implementing innovative sustainable development strategies and policies in the tropical Andes and Central America region.
This small grants programme supports collaborative research, synthesis activities that generate outputs such as publications and kick-start integrative research initiatives, and projects focused on teaching, training, and capacity development across the thematic areas of focus of this call. This is based on the recognition that substantial knowledge gaps persist, especially on the interaction of social and environmental dynamics as they influence sustainability outcomes, including the challenges and opportunities that can ensue.
Thematic Interest
- This call invites proposals for inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations that critically conceptualize, analyze, and substantiate how science and policy interact on topics relating to climate change, ecosystems, and health in the Tropical Andes and Central America region within the framework of sustainable development. They encourage proposals for projects that can provide original insights stemming from synthesis and comparative analyses of case studies, meta-analyses, or systematic reviews of the literature. Furthermore, they particularly encourage proposals that engage with, or include education and teaching on university level.
- Proponents may consider (but are not limited to) the following areas of thematic interest:
- Integrative research that links climate change, ecosystems, and health; identifies and/or addresses knowledge gaps in the region; and/or provides scenarios or future projections.
- For example, integrative disaster risk research that considers hazards such as floods, landslides, or wildfires and their impacts on human health and/or ecosystems; or research on the impacts of climate change on human health in urban areas.
- Projects focused on transferring, adapting or implementing measures that promote sustainable development in local contexts, especially targeting urban systems, megacities and settlements.
- Projects focused on teaching, training, and capacity development across the thematic areas of focus of this call.
- Examples can include: training material for educators to develop curricula and syllabus content and design, content for online educational modules, including virtual experiments for teaching risk assessment in the context of climate change.
- Synthesis research and/or research partnerships related to the following priority themes: climate change and human health; disaster risk reduction; environmental governance; glacier loss and human health; land-use change and human health; water-related risks and adaptation; and food production, food security and nutrition.
- Projects that explore links between climate change and human health, which build on the outcomes of previous efforts made under the COFERs KnowledgeForClimate (KfC) and One Health.
Funding Information
Conéctate A+ will be awarding small grants (up to 10.000 USD each) to 3- 4 outstanding proposals that meet the eligibility criteria of this call.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible to apply, consortia must:
- Consist of researchers affiliated with at least one Conéctate A+ member institution in the Tropical Andes and Central America region1, AND at least one SUDAC member institution in Switzerland. There are no caps on the number of partners that can participate in a consortium.
- Present a proposal that is thematically focused on the triple nexus between climate change, ecosystems, and health across disciplinary, sectorial, and geographic boundaries in the Tropical Andes and Central America region, and within the framework of sustainable development.
- Formulate research or guiding questions that address a specific knowledge gap(s) identified for the Tropical Andes and Central America region as part of the proposal.
For more information, visit https://www.mountainresearchinitiative.org/resources-opportunities/funding-opportunities/3304-conectate-a-2022-call-for-small-grants-and-conference-grants-pre-announcement-2