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FAPESP announces result of call for proposals with the Belmont Forum Versão em português
Three fund collaborative research in the theme "Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services" will be funded (Belmont Forum)
The São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) announces the result of a call for research proposals with the Belmont Forum, group of institutions to encourage research on global changes.
The call was included in the Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action on “Scenarios of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - 2014” and encouraged the formation of new international networks as one to two-year projects.
The call was supported by Belmont Forum selected countries, including FAPESP for the participation of researchers in the State of São Paulo, Brazil.
Funding should support researchers to cooperate in consortia consisting of partners from at least three of the participating countries.
Selected proposals:
| Title: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Scenarios Network | Title: Impact of human drivers (fire, agriculture and grazing) on biodiversity in savannas | Title: Scenario, fishery, ecological-economic modelling and viability network |
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FAPESP #: 2014/50712-0 Proposal acronym: ScenNet FAPESP PI: Jean Paul Metzger, Instituto de Biociências / USP Lead PI: Sandra Lavorei e Wilfried Thuiller, CNRS, Grenoble Other countries: Japan, China, Norway, South Africa, India, Germany, Australia, USA Partners: Osamu Saito, UNUIAS, Tokyo Mingchang Cao, NIES, Nanjing John-Arvid Grytnes, University of Bergen, Bergen Guy Franklin Midgley, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch Katrin Boehning-Gaese, Goethe University, Frankfurt and Bik-F, Frankfurt am Main Simon Ferrier, CSIRO, Canberra Paul Leadley Université Paris-Sud, Orsay Philippe Cury, Université Montpellier II, Sète Wolfgang Cramer, IMBE, Aix-en-Provence FRB, Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité, Paris Brendan A. Wintle University of Melbourne, Vic Walter Jetz Yale University, New Haven Jyothis Satyapalan, CESS, Hyderabad Sponsored by: ANR, CSIRO, DFG, FAPESP, JST, MoEs, NSFC, NRF, RCN |
FAPESP #: 2014/50710-7 Proposal acronym: IHDBS FAPESP PI: Giselda Durigan, Instituto Florestal do Estado de São Paulo Lead PI: Jacques Gignoux, CNRS, Paris Leading country: France Other countries: India, Germany, South Africa, Australia Partners: Sin Chin and Luiz Aragao, INPE - National Institute for Space Research Mark Pelling and Sue Grimmond, King's College London Sam Merrill, University of Southern Maine Edmund S. Muskie School of Public Service Luci Hidalgo Nunes, Institute of Geosciences – State University of Campinas Catherine Reynolds and Kalanithy Vairavamoorthy, University of South Florida Jack Kartez and Jonathan Lockman, Catalysis Adaptation Partners Sponsored by: FAPESP, NERC & ESRC, NSF |
FAPESP#: 2014/50711-3 Proposal acronym: Seaview FAPESP PI: Luiz Felipe Mendes de Gusmão, Departamento de Ciências do Mar - Instituto do Mar - Universidade Federal de São Paulo Lead PI: Luc Doyen, CNRS, Pessac Leading country: France Other countries: Germany, South Africa, Australia, French Guina, Norway Partners: Olivier Thebaud, IFREMER, Plouzane Richard Lorne, Little CSIRO Hobart Martin Quaas, University of Kiel, Kiel Astrid Jarre, University of Cape Town, Cape Town Leo Duta, CSIRO, Dutton Park Debora Martins de Freitas, Technological Institute of Aeronautics, Santos Fabian Blanchard, IFREMER, Cayenne Claire Armstrong, University of Tromsø, Tromsø Sponsored by: ANR, CSIRO, DFG, FAPESP, NRF, RCN
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The call for proposals is available at: www.fapesp.br/en/8689.
FAPESP issued previously other calls for proposals with the Belmont Forum and will soon publish a new one, with another theme.