The Call addresses following major (non-exclusive) priorities:
- Development and application of scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services across spatial scales of relevance to multiple types of decisions
- Consideration of multiple dimensions of biodiversity and ecosystem servicesin biodiversity scenarios
The call aims at supporting proposals that explicitly address a scenario dimension, taking into account the following definition of scenarios: “Scenarios of biodiversity and ecosystem services are the outputs of the combination of scenarios of indirect drivers and direct drivers — such as land use change, invasive alien species, overexploitation, climate change or pollution — and models of impacts of these drivers on biodiversity and ecosystem services.”
25 funding organisations from 23 countries are joining this call: Argentina, Austria, Belgium#, Brazil (State of Sao Paulo only), Bulgaria, Canada, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Ivory Coast, Lithuania, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United States of America. # confirmed for the Wallonia-Brussels Federation; decision for the federal level still pending.
A video (26/09/2017) highlights funding opportunities and eligibility requirements as well as summarizes the proposal and award process for collaborative research action (CRA) calls.
Related:
10 November 2017. Sao Paulo, Brazil. The Belmont Forum organises a Scoping Workshop on Food Security and Safety CRA (Collaborative Research Actions)