Joining the Belmont Forum – CRA Resilience: Vulnerability and Resilience Management for Socio-environmental Systems in Exposed Territories
We are pleased to announce that the Science Pillar of the AXA Foundation for Human Progress is joining the Collaborative Research Action Resilience initiative from the Belmont Forum, marking a significant step in advancing research on resilience in the face of environmental and societal changes. This partnership aims to support innovative projects and foster international cooperation among researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders, with a focus on building more resilient communities and systems worldwide.
The Belmont Forum is a global partnership of research funding organizations established in 2009 to promote joint funding and strategic alliances among countries to accelerate impactful science.
The CRA RESILIENCE initiative is designed to address the increasing complexity of risks arising from global change. Building on previous Collaborative Research Action, CRA RESILIENCE seeks to better integrate socio-environmental systems into risk management approaches, promoting a holistic and transdisciplinary risk science.
Key objectives of the RESILIENCE call include:
Defining and promoting new risk management concepts that account for rapidly changing relations between societies and nature.
Advancing risk science in line with sustainability science, with a focus on co-production of knowledge, informed governance, and capacity building in highly vulnerable territories.
Encouraging the rise of a new generation of scientists and stakeholders equipped to address escalating environmental risks.
The initiative emphasizes the need for a comprehensive approach to risk science, involving all concerned parties: scientists, citizens, stakeholders, and decision-makers, in identifying and implementing relevant solutions. Projects are expected to address critical gaps such as:
The definition of risk in the context of increasing interactions between societies and nature.
The assessment of vulnerabilities in highly exposed territories, including those affected by natural hazards like floods, droughts, and land degradation.
The development and promotion of effective Nature-Based Solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The co-construction of knowledge and solutions between scientists and stakeholders, ensuring equitable adaptation and resilience.
Proposals submitted to this call should:
Address at least two of the following areas: assessing complex risks with global change, focusing on vulnerabilities in highly exposed territories, and developing innovative solutions for disaster risk reduction.
Include a strong link between societal and environmental aspects, in line with the Belmont Challenge for international transdisciplinary research.
Ensure the participation of researchers from both social and natural sciences, as well as societal partners such as citizens, industry, and civil society organizations.
Present a clear plan for data management, stakeholder engagement, project coordination, impact dissemination, and funding, with attention to open access and equitable knowledge sharing.
By joining the CRA RESILIENCE initiative, the AXA Foundation for Human Progress reaffirms its commitment to supporting impactful research that addresses the urgent challenges of global environmental change and resilience. For more information on participation and guidelines for applicants, please refer to Belmont Forum Website and the attached document.