The Belmont Forum, START, Future Earth, and regional partners seek applications to participate in a skill-building opportunity on conducting transdisciplinary (TD) research. The workshops will focus on advancing principles of co-design and co-production in the natural, social, and engineering sciences that address complex sustainability challenges associated with the Belmont Challenge.
These workshops seek to advance skill development in TD research, as well as increasing aptitude for developing proposals with strong TD elements, which is a cornerstone of all the Belmont Forum’s multi-year Collaborative Research Action (CRA), including the recently launched call on urbanization and the food-energy-water nexus.
Learning activities within each workshop will be organized around a regionally relevant case study on the food-energy-water nexus. The workshops will be three-day events with approximately 30 participants per workshop. We welcome applicants from researcher, policy, private sector, and practitioner communities. The participants will be apportioned as approximately 2/3 from the research community and 1/3 from practitioner, private sector, and policy communities.
Applicants must be based in the U.S.
Read more in the invitation (PDF)
WORKSHOP LOCATIONS
1. Tempe, Arizona Dates: February 22-24, 2017
Theme: Extreme heat and its impact on the Food-Energy-Water nexus
Venue: Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University
Partners: NSF, START, Belmont Forum, Future Earth, Global Institute of Sustainability at Arizona State University, and Urbanization and Global Environmental Change (UGEC)
2. Boulder, Colorado Dates: March 1-3, 2017
Theme: Food-Energy-Water on the South Platte River
Venue: University of Colorado
Partners: NSF, START, Future Earth, Belmont Forum, and Sustainability Innovation Lab at Colorado at the University of Colorado
3. Baltimore, Maryland Dates: Late Spring 2017 (A separate call will be released for this workshop)
Theme: TBA
Venue: TBA
Partners: NSF, START, Belmont Forum, Future Earth, and others