QUARTERLY NEWSLETTER — SEPT. 2018
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Above: The transdisciplinary chord diagram generated by BFgo helps visualize the social and natural science disciplines working together on projects and calls
Belmont Forum Awardee Reporting Has a New Look!
With the new BFgo reporting system, Belmont Forum award teams can submit their annual reports into a user-friendly interface.
This system operationalizes past reporting requirements, making it easier for funders to track progress and compliance and check open data access. For project teams, sharing their accomplishments and lessons learned is now quick and easy.
A graphics package can visualize underlying metrics from the reports, such as
the strength of inter-disciplinary collaborations (see figure) and outcomes audience size.
Thanks to the LUX team, the system is already in operation and being used to inform upcoming mid-term and end-term valorization events. We look forward to using BFgo to learn even more from our projects and find new ways to improve the BF process.
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Integrated Transdisciplinary Training Available
Soon on YouTube
With support from our partners at the International Science Council, START, Future Earth, and the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, the e-IDM has put together a series of 4 training modules on best practices of transdisciplinary research, science communication, and meeting open data access requirements.
Video recording of the tutorials has just completed. Look soon for these to be available on the Belmont Forum YouTube Channel!
Revised CRA Data Management
Requirements Released
The DDOMP also clarifies the specific
actions CRA grantees will be expected to implement during and beyond the life of a project to ensure the data and digital outputs generated by their research is as open, accessible and re-usable as possible.
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Our Plenary Meeting is Almost Here!
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Thank you to NERC for hosting us at the Royal Society’s Charlton House Terrace on October 16-18, 2018 for this year’s plenary meeting in London, UK.
The agenda includes a showcase of Belmont Forum awards and advances in global open data access. We encourage all attendees to register for the meeting and look forward to seeing you in London!
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UPDATES
Projects and Funding
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The first
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (BES) awards
are completing their final valorization. These innovative networking awards have generated nearly 60 outputs, including conferences, workshops, and presentations that are advancing global approaches to biodiversity. If you have a Belmont Forum project outcome you would like use to share, please submit it as a resource at
www.belmontforum.org
. Also, check the website soon for descriptions of the projects awarded under the 2nd BES call for proposals, which was joint with Biodiversa.
The
Sustainable Urbanisation Global Intiative / Food-Water-Energy Nexus (SUGI-Nexus)
awardees met in London in June for a 2-day kick-off meeting. This CRA was our first collaboration with JPI-Urban Europe. Read more about these innovative and collaborative projects on our
website
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The joint
Belmont Forum – NORFACE call for Transformations 2 Sustainability (T2S)
has announced 12 new awards. These projects will meet for a kick-off event hosted by the International Science Council and the Japan Science Technology (JST) Agency in Fukuoka, Japan, just ahead of the World Social Science Forum. These exciting new projects will address a diversity of sustainability concerns, including urbanization, land and water rights, migration, and intellectual property rights, among others. Congratulations to these project teams on their awards!
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Congratulations to our 12 new T2S awards. We look forward to seeing your work!
An
Oceans Sustainability CRA
is on the horizon. The
pre-announcement
on the Belmont Forum website outlines the overall themes. Keep checking back at belmontforum.org for release and deadline dates!
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EVENTS
Upcoming Events
This is a very busy time of year for the Belmont Forum!
* Secretariat Executive Director Erica Key recently spoke about South-South cooperation during the Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week in Uruguay. In October, she will address the SPARC (Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate) General Assembly in a keynote speech on transdisciplinary partnerships in climate change research.
* Secretariat member Roel Marsman went to the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium to follow developments in food security research.
* Co-chair Maria Uhle and USGCRP partner representative Apurva Dave attended the Future Earth Summit in Bonn.
*Our colleagues at START and NRF were part of the leadership team for the 2018 Adaptation Futures Meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
* Member representatives for MOST and the e-IDM team traveled to Hawaii to lead a session on Science Driven E-infrastructures and Data Management in Support of Geosciences Society (AOGS) meeting.
* And the President of NSFC, a member of the Belmont Forum, held a workshop on Science Funding Policies and Strategies in Paris, France.
Find upcoming events of interest below and connect with us if you will be in any of them!
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September*
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services I
Final Valorization
• Online
September 18
World Water Monitoring Day
• Chicago, Illinois
September 22 – 24*
T2S Kick-Off Workshop
• Fukuoka, Japan
September 25 – 28
World Social Science Forum
• Fukuoka, Japan
October 1 – 5
SPARC 2018 General Assembly
• Kyoto, Japan
Climate Predictability and Inter-Regional Linkages Mid-Term Valorization*
October 16 – 18*
Belmont Forum Plenary Meeting
• London, United Kingdom
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October 18 – 19
Laying the Foundations for a Global Digital Platform for Planetary Data using Frontier Technologies: An Extraordinary Session of the UN-E Science, Policy, Business Forum
• Paris, France
October 21 – 24
UN World Data Forum
• Dubai, UAE
October 25 – 26
2nd Arctic Science Ministerial Meeting
• Berlin, Germany
November 5 – 8
International Data Week
• Gaborone, Botswana
December 8 – 10*
Valorization Workshop for Arctic I, Food Security I, Mountains CRAs
• Washington, DC
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* Indicates Belmont Forum Internal Events
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Quick Reminders for our members
- Don’t forget to nominate yourselves or your Belmont Forum colleagues for positions on the Steering Committee or co-chair!
- We want to hear from you! Keep submitting proposals for future CRA themes!
Farewells, welcomes and big thanks!
- Farewell to Mao Takeuchi (JST, Deputy Director) and Susanna Ehlers (NSF, Communications Director). Thank you both for all your work, and best of luck in your new positions!
- Wishing our warmest welcome to our new representative Ulf Lange, at the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
- Welcome back to Albert van Jaarsveld, former co-chair and now the new director of IIASA. The former IIASA director, Pavel Kabat, continues to collaborate with us in his new position as Chief Scientist and Director of Research for WCRP.
- Thank you to Gilberto Câmara (FAPESP) for your time as a co-chair, and best of luck as the new director of GEO.
- Thank you to Kate Hamer (NERC) for serving as our interim co-chair.
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