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Pre-call announcement

Climate change, environmental degradation and resource pressures have created unprecedented situations for societies worldwide. Conventional knowledge and capacity building to tackle the challenges associated with sustainability have proven inadequate, and a comprehensive and concerted research initiative is needed to boost research on transformations to sustainability that can catalyse new kinds of solutions to environmental and social challenges.

T2S is a new funding programme for international, transdisciplinary projects addressing transformations to sustainability initiated by the Belmont Forum and NORFACE (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Co-operation in Europe) network. The programme is supported by funding agencies from Belgium, Brazil, Chinese Taipei, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. More information on the participation of Norway will be available soon. Support from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme may also be available for this programme.

Proposals from researchers based in any of the partner countries are welcome, and should address one or more of the call themes:

• Governance and institutional dimensions of transformations to sustainability
• Economy and finance of transformations to sustainability
• Wellbeing, quality of life, identity, and social and cultural values in relation to transformations to sustainability

The call for outline proposals is expected to launch in December 2016.