Deadline: 15 February 24

Future Earth, with funding from the Scientific of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, is pleased to announce the latest in a series of new funding opportunities through the Programme for Early Stage Grants to Advance Sustainability Science (PEGASuS).Foreign embassy grants you can apply for this month!Find opportunities that match your development projectsDOWN NOW

PEGASuS focuses on research transdisciplinary approach that links science natural and social, generating new knowledge about the potential irreversible transitions in the Earth system caused by the climate change and a better ability to assess the risk of such transitions. The aim of this programme is to increase knowledge, promote innovation and establish evidence-based solutions to the world's toughest sustainability challenges. This opportunity will support teams to engage in transdisciplinary research in one of two different thematic areas.

Thematic areas

• Thematic Area 1: Nature-based solutions (NBS) are effective and adaptive interventions to protect, manage and/or restore natural or modified systems, including coastal zones, cities, watersheds and rivers. NBS can address several objectives sustainable development such as climate and risk resilience of disasters prosperity economic and social; security water ; e health and food safety in a cost-effective way.
• Thematic Area 2: Disaster risk reduction increases preparedness and improves response in order to minimise the negative impacts of a given event . Natural disasters, such as droughts, fires, floods and pandemics, can have far-reaching effects that involve multiple systems, including, among others, economic recovery, the replacement and reinforcement of infrastructure and social connections to the site. Transdisciplinary research on this topic can help in the coordination of efforts between sectors, both in the pre- and post-disaster period, in the development of decision support tools and in preventive approaches.

Information on financing

• Projects can request up to US$ 50,000 and must be completed by 31 December 2025.

Eligible projects

• Potential proposals for "take-it-forward" projects could, for example, i) support further synthesis or analysis using complementary funding for existing project objectives; ii) provide professional development opportunities for students, early career academics and practitioners through research exchanges with other projects; iii) develop new ways of communicating research results and outcomes to ensure they reach relevant audiences beyond the scientific community; iv) innovative application of methods and concepts to accelerate progress in implementing nature-based solutions. Other ideas are welcome. Proposals can support new activities or outputs, or complement/improve activities and outputs that are already underway - as long as the addition of the subsidy adds a unique and distinctive value, and that value is clearly articulated.
• Projects should deliver tangible research products, such as journal articles, policy briefs, websites, reports, digital communication products, procedures, panels, prototype devices and tools or other products. Specify the deliverables in the project plan.

Election criteria

• Successful proposals must include project participants from at least one existing, funded project team (or multiple project teams) and new collaborators (optional). The project leader must provide a Letter of Support from the existing project that provides evidence of the existing grant agreement or other current funding. Proposals must list senior staff and staff who will utilise the grant funding as members of each proposal team. Early career participants are encouraged. The proposal must be submitted by a project leader based at an institution in a Global South country or by an organisation led by indigenous people in any country. Collaborators from anywhere in the world are eligible as members of the project team. Applicants must have an organisational bank account established to receive funds.
• The successful PEGASuS proposals to take forward will demonstrate an urgent need for transdisciplinary integration to promote discovery and innovation, building on its existing projects in 1) nature-based solutions in ocean and coastal systems or 2) risk reduction and response while also taking existing research in new directions.
• Research projects can focus on any aspect of the existing Nature-Based Solutions or Risk Reduction and Response project. Applicants should submit a clear project plan, including a summary of the original research project(s), objectives, methodology, expected outputs and outcomes, planned activities for the take-it-further project and anticipated new results. Proposals can come from any institution in any country in the Global South or led by indigenous people from anywhere in the world with collaborators based in any country in the world.

For more information, visit Future Land .