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FAPESP and Belmont Forum will fund projects in sustainable urbanisation Versão em português
Fifteen multinational projects were selected, five of which will be coordinated by researchers from the State of São Paulo
The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the result of a call for research proposals with the Belmont Forum, group of member organizations with the mission to encourage research on global changes.
The “Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative” call for proposals aims to bring together integrated teams of natural scientists, engineers, social scientists, business, and urban stakeholders to develop projects requiring collaborative, international, inter- and transdisciplinary research and innovation.
The call is supported by Belmont Forum selected funding agencies from different countries and also by agencies related to the Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) Urban Europe, a total of 18 countries and participating regions.
The call will support collaborative research projects of multinational research teams for 36 months
Selected proposals:
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Globally and LOCally-sustainable food-water-energy innovation in Urban Living Labs |
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Processo / Grant number |
2017/50423-6 |
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Acronym |
GLOCULL |
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Pesq. Resp. / PI |
Gabriela Marques di Giulio |
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Instit. sede / Host Institution |
Faculdade de Saúde Pública / USP |
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Pesquisador Líder / Leader PI |
Ron Cörvers |
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Inst. Líder / Leader Host Inst. |
Maastricht University - ICIS, Netherlands |
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Países Participantes / Participating Countries |
Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, USA, South Africa, Germany, Brazil |
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Agências Financiadoras / Funding Agencies |
NWO, Formas, SEA, FFG, NSF, NRF, BMBF, FAPESP |
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Pesquisadores Parceiros / Partner Researchers |
Ron Cörvers, Maastricht University - ICIS, Netherlands; Barry Ness, Lund University - Centre for Sustainability Studies, LUCSUS, Sweden; Andreas Muhar, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien - Department für Raum, Landschaft und Infrastruktur, Austria; Nigel Forrest, Arizona State University - School of Sustainability, United States of America; Mark Swilling, Stellenbosch University - Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, South Africa; Daniel J. Lang, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg - Institut für Ethik und Transdisziplinäre Nachhaltigkeitsforschung, Germany; Joacim Larsen, AB Brygghuset Finn, Sweden; Kimber Lanning, Local First Arizona, United States of America; Braden Kay, City of Tempe, United States of America; Erik Sehnal, Nikko Photovoltaik, Austria; Mark Hartman, City of Phoenix, United States of America; Gabriela Di Giulio, Sao Paulo - School of Public Health, Brazil |
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Understanding Innovative Initiatives for Governing Food, Water and Energy Nexus in Cities |
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Processo / Grant number |
2017/50425-9 |
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Acronym |
IFWEN |
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Pesq. Resp. / PI |
José Antonio Puppim de Oliveira |
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Instit. sede / Host Institution |
Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (EAESP), FGV-SP |
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Pesquisador Líder / Leader PI |
José Antonio Puppim de Oliveira |
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Inst. Líder / Leader Host Inst. |
Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (EAESP), FGV-SP |
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Países Participantes / Participating Countries |
Brazil, USA, Sweden, South Africa |
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Agências Financiadoras / Funding Agencies |
FAPESP, NSF, NRF, Formas, SEA |
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Pesquisadores Parceiros / Partner Researchers |
Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira, Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV) Sao Paulo School of Management (EAESP), Brazil; David Maddox, The Nature of Cities, United States of America; Wan-yu Shih, Ming Chuan University - Department of Urban Planning and Disaster Management; Ingrid Coetzee, ICLEI Africa, South Africa; Thomas Elmqvist, Stockholm University - Stockholm Resilience Center, Sweden; Jiwon Lee, ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability e.V., Germany; Karen Seto, Yale University, United States of America; Mathew Kurian, UNU-FLORES, Germany |
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Intelligent Urban Metabolic Systems for Green Cities of Tomorrow: an FWE Nexus-based Approach |
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Processo / Grant number |
2017/50420-7 |
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Acronym |
METABOLIC |
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Pesq. Resp. / PI |
José Vicente Caixeta Filho |
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Instit. sede / Host Institution |
Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz (ESALQ), USP, Brazil |
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Pesquisador Líder / Leader PI |
Fi-John Chang |
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Inst. Líder / Leader Host Inst. |
Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan |
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Países Participantes / Participating Countries |
Taiwan, Brazil, Japan, USA, Qatar |
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Agências Financiadoras / Funding Agencies |
MOST, FAPESP, JST, NSF, QNRF |
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Pesquisadores Parceiros / Partner Researchers |
Fi-John Chang, Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan; José Vicente Caixeta Filho, ESALQ - LOG, USP, Brazil; Makoto Taniguchi, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan; Luis Rodríguez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Agricultural and Biological Engineering, USA; Saud Ghani, Qatar University - Qatar University, Qatar; Kuei-Kuang Chen, Sunny Rich Power Co., Ltd, Taiwan |
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Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Lab - Mapping and Reducing Waste in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus |
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Processo / Grant number |
2017/50421-3 |
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Acronym |
WASTE FEW ULL |
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Pesq. Resp. / PI |
Maria Ester Soares Dal Poz |
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Instit. sede / Host Institution |
Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas, UNICAMP, Brazil |
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Pesquisador Líder / Leader PI |
Sue Charlesworth |
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Inst. Líder / Leader Host Inst. |
Coventry University - Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, UK |
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Países Participantes / Participating Countries |
UK, USA, Norway, South Africa, Netherlands, Brazil |
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Agências Financiadoras / Funding Agencies |
AHRC, ESRC, Innovate UK3, NSF, RCN, NRF, NWO, FAPESP |
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Pesquisadores Parceiros / Partner Researchers |
Sue Charlesworth, Coventry University - Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, UK; Adina Paytan, university of California Santa Cruz - IMS, USA; Simon Roberts, Centre for Sustainable Energy, UK; Taoyuan Wei, CICERO Senter for klimaforskning, Norway; Alistair Hunt, University of Bath - Department of Economics, UK; Mark Swilling, Stellenbosch University - Centre for Complex Systems in Transition, South Africa; Richard Joseph Nunes, University of Reading - UK; Dan Green, Wessex Water Services Ltd, UK; Joy Carey, Bristol Food Network, UK; Charlotte Stamper, GENeco, UK; Fred Barker, The Schumacher Institute, UK; Kevin Winter, University of Cape Town - Future Water Research Institute, South Africa; Derk Loorbach, Erasmus University Rotterdam - DRIFT, Netherlands; James Topkin, ERWAT, South Africa; Jonny Harris, Isidima Design & Development, South Africa; Sabine Biesheuvel, BlueCity, Netherlands; Maria Ester Dal-Poz, Business School of School of Applied Sciences and Institute of Economics, UNICAMP, Brazil |
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Smart Integrated Multitrophic City Food Production Systems – A Water and Energy Saving Approach for Global Urbanisation |
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Processo / Grant number |
2017/50431-9 |
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Acronym |
CITYFOOD |
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Pesq. Resp. / PI |
Maria Célia Portella |
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Instit. sede / Host Institution |
Centro de Aquicultura de Jaboticabal, UNESP, Brazil |
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Pesquisador Líder / Leader PI |
Daniela Baganz |
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Inst. Líder / Leader Host Inst. |
Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V., Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei, Germany |
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Países Participantes / Participating Countries |
Germany, Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden, Norway, Germany, USA |
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Agências Financiadoras / Funding Agencies |
BMBF, NWO, FAPESP, Formas, SEA, RCN |
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Pesquisadores Parceiros / Partner Researchers |
Daniela Baganz, Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V., Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei, Germany; Karel Keesman, Wageningen University - Agrotechnology and Food Sciences, Netherlands; Maria Celia Portella, Universidade Estadual Paulista Julio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP), Brazil; Alyssa Joyce, University of Gothenburg - Department of Marine Science, Sweden; Siv Lene Skar, Norwegian Institute for Bioeconomy Research, Norway; Toni Heindorf, SRP Gesellschaft für Stadt- und Regionalplanung mbH, Germany; Gundula Proksch, University of Washington - College of Built Environments, USA |
The list of all the 15 multinational projects is available at: https://jpi-urbaneurope.eu/news/the-15-projects-that-will-take-on-the-food-water-energy-nexus/.
The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative” is published at: www.fapesp.br/en/10682.
Learn more about the opportunity at: www.sugi-nexus.org.