Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI) – call for proposals

We would like to invite researchers to submit proposals under Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI) Food-Water-Energy Nexus call for proposals. The call has three topics to address urgent and long-term challenges within the Food-Water-Energy Nexus.

The call aims to develop more resilient and applied urban solutions that bring inter- and transdisciplinary research and innovation together from across the globe, to benefit a much wider range of stakeholders: i.e. researchers, cities, civil society and business.

The call targets research in the following topics:

• Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments,
• Multi-level Governance and Management,
• Managing Strategies and Solutions.

Funding is available for international research projects that involve at least three researchers from three different eligible countries.

Funding: 28,5 M EUR, including support from Horizon 2020

Participating countries:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Cyprus, France, Germany, Japan, Latvia, The Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, United Kingdom, USA.

Partner search forms facilitate the composition of consortia. To look for a project partner or a project to join please join the LinkedIn group or Future Earth Open network.

Call documentation:

1. SUGI Call Text
2. SUGI Application form
3. SUGI Eligibility requirements
4. SUGI Call infoflyer
5. SUGI Contact points
6. SUGI Presentation

Information for Polish applicants:

1. Submission deadline for pre-proposals: 15 March 2017 at 19:00 CET. The deadline for full-proposal: September 20^th 2017.
2. On the full proposal stage Polish applicants must register their applications in the OSF submission system (UNISONO application). This application includes the following budget table: http://ncn.gov.pl/sites/default/files/pliki/UNISONO_budget_table.xlsx.
3. Budget of the Polish part of the research project in the OSF system should be given in PLN (1 EUR= 4,3334 PLN). 
4. We strongly encourage all applicants to read information on eligible costs included in the Annex to NCN Council’s Resolution on funding granted within calls for proposals for international research projects (UNISONO).
5. If one international project includes partners from two different Polish Host Institutions, these institutions must apply as a consortium. Each Host Institution comprising the consortium has a separate budget, but the limit on the applies to the consortium as a whole.
6. We invite all researchers who plan to apply within the SUGI call to contact the NCN.

Contact:

Joanna Komperda, tel. +48 12 341 9138

dr Kinga Sekerdej, tel. +48 12 341 9172

For more information please see: www.sugi-nexus.org