March 07, 2019
From 12 to 15 February 2019 partners from the Future Resilience for African Cities and Land (FRACTAL) program met in Cape Town to discuss the progress made and the next steps as the project comes to an end. During the…
March 01, 2019
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has launched a call for applications for the 5th round of scholarship awards. The IPCC will accept applications from PhD students that have been enrolled for at least a year or are undertaking…
February 28, 2019
Transformations 2019 will take place in Santiago de Chile from 16 to 18 October 2019. It aims to provide a platform for reciprocal learning between less and more developed contexts, and between researchers and practitioners, in order to enhance both…
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February 28, 2019
The LICCI (Local Indicators of Climate Change Impacts) project is a European Research Council (ERC) funded project aiming to improve our understandings of how climate change affects physical, biological, and socioeconomic systems. The project will document and analyse local indicators…
February 25, 2019
WASCAL has issued a call for proposals for research activities supporting the “WASCAL II – West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use” under the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research’s (BMBF) “Research for Sustainable Development” framework programme. …
February 14, 2019
Applications are now open for a two-week Summer School on Tropical Meteorology over West and East Africa taking place at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, from 21 July – 2 August 2019. The Summer…
February 12, 2019
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February 08, 2019
The Institute for International Education (IIE) is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the Ambassador’s Distinguished Scholars Program in Ethiopia. The program seeks U.S. citizens with terminal degrees to join the faculty of one of four…
February 07, 2019
The Research for Impact Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is a six week, free online course developed by colleagues form the Adaptation at Scale in Semi-Arid Regions (ASSAR) program. In this course, participants will learn more about the Research for…
February 06, 2019
As part of its 10th anniversary celebration, the Belmont Forum is collecting stories on how it has impacted science, scientific communities. Please find below a message from the Belmont Forum. — The Belmont Forum is celebrating 10 years of partnership, advances,…