Colleagues, Line Gordon of the Stockholm Resilience Center, and Bioversity International (Fabrice DeClerck) are seeking to support a recent doctoral candidate in applying for the Swedish Research Council Formus call for "Supporting sustainable development in low income countries” (mobility grant for young researchers).
http://www.formas.se/en/Financing/Calls-For-Proposals/Aktuella/Call-for-supporting-sustainable-development-in-low-income-countries---mobility-grants-for-young-researchers/ The overall intention of the Grant is to contribute to development of new knowledge that will support global sustainable development, and to promote capacity building long-term cooperation between Swedish researchers and researchers in low-income countries. Formas promotes high-quality research in support of sustainable development (ecological, economic, social and cultural). Such a development requires that the health and welfare of man and animals together with biodiversity, environment, nature’s production capacity, economy as well as ethical, social and cultural aspects, should all be considered. A project can last for four years and should aim to promote the mobility of young researchers (maximum eight years since doctoral degree award) in Sweden. The programme will start January 2014 and 8 million SEK/year will be available for four years, with Formas and Sida contributing equal shares. The Stockholm Resilience Center and Bioversity are particularly interested in working with 1-2 candidates whose interests and approaches would contribute to apply ecosystem service and resilience based approaches to addressing critical landscape/basin scale development challenges in either the Volta, Nile, or Mekong river basins. Work would also contribute to the CGIAR research program on Water Land and Ecosystems with the engagement of other CGIAR centers: http://wle.cgiar.org/about/ If you are interested, please send a brief statement of interest and CV to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Do not that the individual would be responsible for submitting an application directly to FORMAS. Bioversity is committed to research highlighting the use and conservation of biodiversity to improve the lives of rural farming families. The successful candidate should anticipate splitting their time between the Stockholm Resilience Center, Bioversity’s office in Montpellier, France, and the selected field site. Fabrice
