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Call for SDG Labs Africa | |
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2018-01-19 | |
发布年 | 2018 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 国际 |
领域 | 气候变化 ; 资源环境 |
正文(英文) | The Seedbeds of Transformation conference has announced related calls for session proposals and for applications for travel grants. Find those calls here. Do you have an idea for how to spark sustainable transformations in Africa and around the world? The organisers of the upcoming “Seedbeds of Transformation: the role of science with society and the SDGs in Africa” conference in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, are seeking applications for SDG Labs. These creative projects bring together participants from diverse research disciplines and from across society to develop prototype solutions to complex challenges. Future Earth and its partners will fund up to 20 labs led by innovators at African instutions. The deadline for applications is 16 February. To learn more about SDG Labs, see a list of labs sponsored through the 7th International Conference on Sustainability Science (ICSS 2017), which took place in Stockholm in August 2017. For more information about this call, contact Erik Pihl, Research Liaison Officer at Future Earth. See the official announcement below: Call for SDG Labs AfricaWe invite researchers, innovators and change-makers to propose SDG Labs Africa for the Seedbeds conference. In short:
Describing SDG Labs SDG Labs are intended to bring together participants from a range of research disciplines and sectors of society to develop solutions to complex problems that help to make progress towards implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDG Labs concept aims to initiate processes towards sustainability transformations through developing prototype solutions. We want to encourage innovative approaches that help to shift systems towards more sustainable trajectories. These are multi-stakeholder processes and the changes they seek to catalyse may be in institutions, systems or sectors of society, for example in food systems and food security, risk governance, inequality and poverty or ecosystem health. The innovations may be social, ecological, technological, in business models or policy or a combination of several of these. The aspiration of the SDG labs is that they plant seeds of change that can grow and spread, inspire and provide knowledge for transformation on a greater scale. In practice, a lab is a short series of solutions-focused workshops aimed at delivering a specific innovation. This is how a lab works: You put together a team of people with different backgrounds and ideas for how to find solutions to a very specific sustainability challenge. The “idea” in this case could be, for instance, a certain process, activity, bringing together of specific stakeholder groups, a technical solution, design activity, etc. The solutions should be evidence-based, have legitimacy within the stakeholder groups you are engaging, include some element(s) of innovation, include local or indigenous knowledge as relevant and provide culturally appropriate meeting formats. You design a process to explore the idea on the relevant scale and you try it out. That is the lab. SDG Labs are based on the social innovation lab concept developed by Frances Wesley and colleagues at the University of Waterloo for the Rockefeller Foundation, and based on earlier lab concepts. Social Innovation Labs have been used around the world to catalyse change. Future Earth has further evolved the concept with the Stockholm Resilience Centre, and together we funded 21 SDG Labs as part of the 2017 International Conference on Sustainability Science. You can learn more about these labs on the conference website. SDG Labs Africa: solutions for change The Seedbeds conference has a specific focus on Africa. The labs can take place anywhere in Africa, or anywhere in the world if a majority of the participants are from Africa and the focus is highly relevant for sustainability in Africa. We will allocate up to 7,000 EUR to each SDG Lab, which will consist of 5,000 to 6,000 EUR for lab activities and 1,000 to 2,000 EUR for travel support to attend the conference, present your results and receive feedback. We have three focus areas for the labs:
Addressing one or more of these focus areas will increase the chance that your lab proposal will be funded. It is also recommended that your lab proposal demonstrates how it will address one or more of the overall conference themes. The SDG Labs-Africa process would be expected to follow four phases:
Funding will be provided up-front for the lab, and financial reporting of expenditures will be required at the completion of the lab. Application process Here is an overview of what will be required and criteria for a successful application: When applying for a lab, we want you to let us know:
A successful proposal will contain the following elements:
Deadlines: 16 February: Session proposals (applicant) 2 March: Winning SDG Labs notified (conference organisers) 9-11 May: Seedbeds conference 11 September: Phase 2 finalised (applicant) 1 December: Final reporting of labs (applicant) To submit an application, fill out the online form here. For more information, contact Erik Pihl. |
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条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/99139 |
专题 | 气候变化 资源环境科学 |
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