Open Call: Integrating Climate Change & Biodiversity into the Forest Management of the Future

Deadline: 23-Sep-23

Does your work contribute towards the healthy, resilient and productive forests? Velux Stiftung’s call for proposals on innovative, sustainable and integrative forest management may be just what you’re looking for!

This call for proposals in forestry is focused on developing or integrating solutions for adapting to or mitigating climate change, promoting biodiversity, providing resilient ecosystems services while supplying sustainable forest products. They’re also seeking proposals that incentivize action and behavioral change, transforming the theoretical and abstract values of forest products and services.

Your proposal can be for an implementation-oriented research project that includes stakeholder engagement and has a high potential to foster change in practice. Alternatively, your proposal can be for a science practice network that co-develop or implement approaches that contribute towards the goals of the program. Support is available for projects within existing science-practice networks or establishing a new one.

Vision, Goals of the forestry Program

Vision

Goals

Thematic Focus
  • Innovative, sustainable and integrative forest management to develop and provide solutions for adapting to or mitigating climate change, promoting biodiversity, providing resilient ecosystems services and supplying sustainable forest products, e.g.:
    • Quantify the effect of new integrative management practices on ecosystem services at landscape level to provide different options for stakeholders
    • Identify and develop management scenarios for climate change and extreme events aiming to offer decision support for forest owners
    • Develop methodological approaches for making projections for robust solutions in long-lived ecosystems in a high-dimensional uncertainty space – Etc.
  • Incentives for action and behavioural change by transforming theoretical and abstract values of forest products and services, e.g.:
Funding Information

Geographical focus: Projects dealing with all types of forests: boreal, temperate, tropical and subtropical forests are welcome.

Eligibility Criteria
  • They welcome projects with several partners. At least one partner needs to be from a university or a research institution. Other partners can be forest owners or practitioner associations, consulting or (non-) governmental agencies. The PI needs to be a person with a permanent employment status. The PI’s organization needs to be tax-exempted.
  • While they support research worldwide, they also welcome applications from Swiss institutions or transboundary partnerships. They ask that a collaboration is clearly delineated and follows the principles for fair and equal partnership.
  • Possible types of applications Research projects: Funding for innovative, outside-of-the-box, interdisciplinary, implementation- or transfer-oriented research projects with a high potential to foster change in practice. If well justified why no other funding sources are available, basic research projects that have an interdisciplinary approach could be supported.
  • Science-practice networks: Funding to support existing interdisciplinary networks or to establish new networks – to develop or implement the research themes.

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