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A new sub-Saharan Africa grant scheme, Future Leaders – African Independent Research (FLAIR) Fellowships, is now seeking applications. The scheme offers talented African early career researchers who have the potential to become leaders in their field, the opportunity to develop…

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) invites young people from around the world to apply to the Global Youth Climate Video Competition 2018, with short videos highlighting climate action being taken by youth. Two participants will be selected…

The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School and Research Data Science Advanced Workshops will run at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy, in August 2018. The CODATA-RDA Research Data Science Summer School provides training in the foundational skills of…

In collaboration with the journal World Development, the University of Michigan is organizing an international conference on Sustainability and Development seeking to bring together a diverse and interdisciplinary constituency to engage with the best approaches and means to implement the…

CMCC Foundation is the non-profit Italian research centre on climate science and policy. Its activities focus on the development and applications of models of climate dynamics, impacts of climate change and adaptation and mitigation policies.  Current job and fellowship opportunities…

Future Climate for Africa invites interested individuals to attend a micro e-learning course on Expert and Government Review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Reports. The objective of the course is to increase the involvement of African experts and…

Tackling climate change in cities involves a wide array of coordinated and sustained actions across a range of sectors and scales, requiring collaboration and shared knowledge. Embedded research is one approach to address this complexity – it involves co-producing robust…

Thanks to Anna Taylor, embedded researchers coordinator, and to the embedded researchers who contributed to this article: Brenda Mwalukanga (Lusaka), Hécralito Mucavele (Maputo), Kornelia Iipinge (Windhoek), Lulu van Rooyen (Durban), Rudo Mamombe (Harare) and Sandra Zenda (Harare). Back to the…

SCERIN (South-Central European Regional International Network)  is one of the regional networks of the Global Observation of Forest and Land Cover Dynamics(GOFC-GOLD) panel of the Global Terrestrial Observing System program for observations, modeling, and analysis to support sustainable development. SCERIN is…

The Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists is now open for entries! This is the sixth year that Science and SciLifeLab will present this award, which offers four recent PhD graduates a life-changing opportunity. Recent doctoral graduates in the…