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EVENTS

International Symposium on Food and Water Sustainability in China 2007 (January 18, 2007 - Macau, China)

New Partnerships for Science in the Cradle of Humanity (February 14, 2009 - Chicago, IL, USA)

South American Business Forum 2009 (August 7, 2009 - Buenos Aires, Argentina)

International Conference on Research for Development (July 2, 2008 - Bern, Switzerland)

Global Forum on Building Science, Technology and Innovation Capacity for Sustainable Growth and Poverty Reduction (February 13, 2007 - Washington, DC)

Lustrom Symposium (November 1, 2007 - The Netherlands)

Meeting Global Challenges in Research Cooperation (May 27, 2008 - Uppsala, Sweden)

MEMBERS
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Scott Veirs, President, Beam Reach marine science and sustainability school

Zdravko Spiric, Head of the Institute, Oikon Ltd. - Institute for Applied Ecology

Susan Smith, Professor of Law, Willamette University

Stephanie Domptail, MSc, Institute for Agriculture and Market Research

Vimal Khawas, Council for Social Development

Masaru Yarime, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo

Ivonne Cruz, PhD, UNESCO Chair in Sustainability

David Bruderly, President, Bruderly Engineering Associates, Inc.

BANAOU Djibo, Consultant, CCA/UNDP

Isabelle Sánchez Rose, Professional Ascribed to Research, Venezuelan Institute of Scientific Research (IVIC), Venezuela

PUBLICATIONS

What Can We Do for Sustainability (Thomas Parris, 2005)

Proceedings from Science and Technology for Sustainable Development: The African Context (Sarah Banas, Danny Schaffer, Thomas Egwang, Martine Ngobo, Hans Herran, Alfred Watkins, Phillip Griffiths , 2008)

Mobilizing Science-Based Enterprises for Energy, Water, and Medicines in Nigeria ( Committee on Creation of Science-Based Industries in Developing Countries, National Research Council , 2007)

PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being (John P. Holdren , 2008)

Safe Drinking Water is Essential (The “Safe Water is Essential” web site is a production of the National Academy of Sciences’ Koshland Science Museum, in cooperation with the Water Science and Technology Board and the Office of International Programs. , 2007)

Selections from Sharing Innovative Experiences ( UNDP Special Unit for South-South Cooperation, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), The Third World Network of Scientific Organizations (TWNSO), The Global Environmental Facility (GEF) , 2005)

Complexity of Coupled Human and Natural Systems (Jianguo Liu, Thomas Dietz, Stephen R. Carpenter, Marina Alberti, Carl Folke, Emilio Moran, Alice N. Pell, Peter Deadman, Timothy Kratz, Jane Lubchenco, Elinor Ostrom, Zhiyun Ouyang, William Provencher, Charles L. Redman, Stephen H. Schneider, and William W. Taylor , 2007)

Increasing Capacity for Stewardship of Oceans and Coasts A Priority for the 21st Century ( National Research Council, Ocean Studies BoardMary (Missy) H. Feeley and Silvio C. Pantoja, Committee Co-Chairs , 2008)

PROGRAMS
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International Foundation for Science (IFS)

Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD)

Science and Technology for Sustainability Program

Resilience Alliance

Millennium Project

Network for Ecosystem Sustainability and Health (NESH)

Sino-U.S. Center for Conservation Energy and Sustainability Science (SUCCESS)

Grupo Ecologico Sierra Gorda GESG

Society for Conservation Biology

Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods

OPPORTUNITIES

Global Search for Innovations in Farming and Rural Communities (Ashoka's Changemakers announces the launch of "Cultivating Innovation: Solutions for Rural Communities," a global, online competition to seek out the most innovative solutions in farming and rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa, India, and around the world. The competition is funded as part of a grant awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Using the Changemakers' open-source online platform, the competition will be open to anyone striving to stimulate rural development and agriculture. Over the next two months, people from around the world will be nominating those who are making a difference in farming and rural communities, or submitting their own innovative projects. The Changemakers community will be continually commenting on the initiatives entered in the competition. Entrants and nominators will be able to network with media, academics, and thought leaders. A panel of judges—Roy Steiner, Senior Program Officer for Agricultural Development at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Gene Kahn, Global Sustainability Officer for General Mills; Beatrice Gakuba, CEO of Rwanda Flora; Suzana Padua, Founder of the Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (Institute of Ecological Research); and Raj Patel, activist and author, Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System—will narrow the entry pool to 10 to 15 finalists. The global Changemakers community will then vote for three winners, who will each receive a USD $5000 award from Changemakers to fund their initiatives. The finalists and winners will receive media attention and are showcased on the Changemakers website. All entrants will gain increased access to a global network of innovators, supporters, and investors with the means to help them fund and/or scale their projects.Any developing country)

2009 Watson International Scholars of the Environment (The Watson International Scholars of the Environment program brings mid-career environmental leaders from universities, governments, and nongovernmental organizations throughout Africa to Brown University for advanced training in land-change history, sciences, and policies, providing them with the context to enhance the sustainable development capacity in their countries. The opportunity offers an intensive program in sustainable land-use studies to provide mastery of critical concepts, relevant tools, and transferable processes necessary for managing land and ecosystems. Supported by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation and endorsed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the program offers scholars time away from their daily responsibilities to learn new skills with a community of scholars applying both theoretical and practice approaches to real world environmental issues. Full time for three and a half months, participants are involved in courses, workshops, field trips, symposia, mentorship, professional networking, and research projects. The Watson International Scholars of the Environment are active participants, not passive students. All participants will take part in a foundational seminar on African environmental history. Module units focus on land-use science and policy. Drawing on the resources of Brown University, participants will prepare a study on land-use change and policy responses. Participants will integrate data from across disciplines and discuss how their research can inform sound decision-making. Investment in these leaders is strategic: participants are men and women capable of creating lasting and immediately favorable impacts on the sustainable development of their home institutions, eco-regions, and nations. Accordingly, participants are expected to be at a mid-point within their careers in environmental management, science, and policy fields. The program seeks individuals who want to forge new linkages among ideas and issues, to develop networks among leaders facing similar land-use issues, and to explore alliances with relevant colleagues and institutions for improved personal and institutional effectiveness.Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA)

ESRC Funded PhD Studentship in The Governance of Clean Development in the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia (Meeting the development needs of the majority of the world’s people in a carbon-constrained world presents a global challenge of staggering proportions. There is currently little research, however, about the role of institutions and policy processes in reconciling the growing levels of demand for energy investment in rapidly industrialising countries with the goal of clean development aimed at facilitating a transition to a lower carbon economy.  An ESRC Climate Change Leadership Fellowship on The Governance of Clean Development will address this issue. The programme of work will explore the conditions in which the governance context nationally and internationally helps to determine (i) the nature, scale and direction of investment flows in the clean development sector (within and beyond the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism) and (ii) the extent to which those flows are able to simultaneously satisfy social as well as environmental ends.   As part of this programme, applications are invited for a fully funded 3 year PhD studentship based in the School of Development Studies at UEA to be supervised by Prof. Peter Newell to begin in October 2008 (or as soon thereafter as possible). The subject of the research will be a comparative study of the governance of clean development in India and South Africa and will involve field work in both those countries. The studentship will allow significant involvement in the research and communication work associated with the fellowship at one of the UK’s leading centres for research on climate change development. The studentship includes PhD student fees, field work costs and project related travel, a stipend plus a Research Training Support Grant. To see the terms and conditions of ESRC studentships see http://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/postgraduate/fundingopportunities/ Applications are welcome from candidates with a minimum 2.1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent) and a relevant Masters degree or relevant experience. Please note that due to funding restrictions only EU and UK citizens are eligible. Applications should include a CV, a covering letter outlining relevant experience and interest in this area of work and a completed application form which can be downloaded from: http://www1.uea.ac.uk/cm/home/schools/ssf/dev/researchpg/HowToApply. They should be submitted to Daniel Lightening, SSF Admissions, University of East Anglia Norwich, NR4 7TJ Tel +44 (0) 1603 592805, E-mail:d.lightening@uea.ac.uk quoting ESRC/Newell. The deadline for applications is August 15th 2008. A telephone interview will be held in late August at a date to be confirmed. For further information and queries please contact Prof. Peter Newell P.Newell@uea.ac.ukNorwich, UK)

Regional Initiative in Science and Education (RISE) Network Grants (RISE will prepare PhD-level scientists and engineers in sub-Saharan Africa through university-based research and training networks in selected areas. Its primary goals are to prepare new faculty to teach in African universities and allow existing faculty to advance to the PhD level.  Research and training networks comprising universities in at least three different countries in sub-Saharan Africa are eligible to compete. Each RISE network will be expected to grant a minimum of 15 PhD and Masters degrees over 4-6 years. Preference will be given to networks in the following basic sciences: material science mathematics chemistry, including natural products and biochemistry  or in these problem-driven areas: information and communication technology, instrumentation, software engineering renewable energy water resources     Equal consideration will be given to proposals that combine basic and applied areas; for example a network concentrating on safe drinking water might include one node that focuses on chemistry. Creative approaches to interdisciplinary networks are encouraged. Interactions among RISE networks will be encouraged and facilitated as appropriate.sub-Saharan Africa)

UNESCO Mondialogo Engineering Award (Daimler and UNESCO invite student engineers from universities around the world to apply for the largest international engineering competition - the Mondialogo Engineering Award. Registration is open until 31 October 2008 at www.mondialogo.org. The award carries prize money totalling € 300,000. It is intended that these awards be used as seed funding to help develop and initiate the proposed projects. In the Mondialogo Engineering Award, student engineers from developing and developed countries are challenged to form International Project Teams to develop ideas and design project proposals for sustainable solutions to problems in developing countries. The focus is on the design of innovative technologies to reduce poverty, promote sustainable development and address other United Nations Millennium Development Goals, in such fields as environmental protection, energy, water supply and sanitation, waste management, use of natural resources, medical care, nutrition, housing, hygiene, disaster protection, mobility, communication and climate change - a key concern of the Mondialogo Engineering Award.International Project Teams eligible to apply for the Mondialogo Engineering Award should consist of two student groups from two higher education establishments, with one group from a developing country and the other from a developed country. The Mondialogo Internet Portal www.mondialogo.org acts as a contact centre for groups to meet each other, and will later function as a virtual office for inter-group communications. Teams will have time until April 2009 to develop and design their project proposals. An international jury will then assess the entries and decide on the awarding, which will be part of a festive ceremony in later 2009. Key factors in the assessment are sustainability, technical quality, feasibility of the project proposals and the quality of the intercultural cooperation between the teams. Through the competition Daimler and UNESCO aim to promote international cooperation, intercultural dialogue and the exchange of knowledge among student engineers, universities and higher education establishments. The Mondialogo Engineering Award is part of the Mondialogo project initiated and launched by Daimler and UNESCO in 2003. The Mondialogo Initiative also consists of the Mondialogo School Contest and the multilingual Mondialogo Internet Portal. The aim of the Mondialogo project is to encourage cooperation and dialogue between people from different countries and cultures, working together across continents on a joint project activity. This cooperation is intended to develop understanding, tolerance and friendship between people with different cultural, religious and linguistic backgrounds. Any)

Call for Papers: Science with Africa (The UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Intelligence in Science (ISC) are inviting submissions of papers for the conference “Science with Africa”. Part of the conference will focus on scientific themes which will be of particular interest in the development of a science base in Africa. The objective is to present the enormous potential of African institutions and to demonstrate that collaboration with African scientists presents added value in many types of research. The conference will revolve around the themes of: Energy, Transport and Infrastructure, Health, Life Sciences, Information and Communication Technologies, Water, and Agriculture and Food Security.Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)

Call for Abstracts: World Water Week 2008 (The annual World Water Week in Stockholm promotes the exchange of views and experiences between the scientific, business, policy and civil society communities, thereby advancing the water, sanitation, environment, health, climate adaptation, poverty reduction, human development and related agendas. "Progress and Prospects on Water: For a Clean and Healthy World", including a Special Focus on Sanitation, is the theme for 2008, and the First Announcement, including a call for papers and posters, is now available. The deadline for proposals is February 1, 2008. Submit yours using the online form!Stockholm, Sweden)

CGIAR Cycle 2 Challenge Programs: Call for Pre-Proposals (The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research invites all interested parties to develop pre-proposals on any of the following ideas for Challenge Programs: (a) climate change, agriculture and food security; b) high-value crops (fruits and vegetables); and (c) combating desertification (dryland degradation).Background Four years ago, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) launched a series of new programs as part of a far-reaching effort to enhance the effectiveness and impact of its research investment. Called “Challenge Programs,” or CPs, these have the following characteristics: Address complex issues of great global and/or regional significance. Involve high impact research relating to CGIAR goals. Work through broad partnerships involving a wide range of institutions Are independently governed Are committed to achieving specific objectives within an agreed time frame.)