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INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR SCIENCE

i nternat ional social sc ience cou nci l

Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Mrica

A five-year programme of the International Council for Science (ICSU), implemented in partnership with the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC), that aims to generate solutions-oriented knowledge required to address complex sustainability challenges in Africa and to increase participation of the African scientific community in the global research programmes Future Earth, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk, and Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment.

Call for pre-proposals: Understanding the "Energy -Health - Natural Disasters" nexus in the urban context in

Mrica

Deadline: 15 August 2016 (18:00 CET)

Submission via https:ijform.jotformeu.com/61993050208353

ICSU in partnership with NASAC and the ISSC has opened a call for pre-proposals to identify collaborative research projects engaging at least with two nexus areas (energy, health or natural disasters) in the urban environment in Africa. 35 pre-proposals will be selected to attend a training event on integrated research, which will take place on 3-7 October 2016 in Nairobi, Kenya. Participants of the training will then be given about two months to submit full proposals. Ten collaborative research projects across Africa will be funded to the value of up to 90,000 Euro each over two years.

Issue of the call for pre-proposals Submission deadline for pre-proposal Selection decision of pre-proposals Training on integrated research Submission deadline for full proposals Funding decision

futurE'orth research for global sustainability

19 July 2016 15 August 2016 (18:00 CET) Early September 2016 3-7 October 2016, Nairobi, Kenya 30 November 2016 (18:00 CET) January 2017

URBAN HEALTH AND WELLBEING A SYSTE'1S APPROACH

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BACKGROUND

Leading Integrated Research for Agenda 2030 in Africa (LIRA 2030 Africa) is a 5-year programme of the International Council for Science (ICSU), implemented in partnership with the Network of African Science Academies (NASAC) and the International Social Science Council (ISSC). The programme aims to foster collaborations between early career scientists in Africa across scientific disciplines (to build inter-disciplinary research teams involving social and natural scientists), and between researchers and stakeholders in business, policy and civil society (i.e. trans-disciplinary research), in order to generate solutions-oriented knowledge required to address complex sustainability challenges in Mrica.

The programme will support regional collaborative research projects on global sustainability, with a particular focus on global environmental change, disaster risk reduction, sustainable energy and human health and well-being in the urban environment. The global research programmes Future Earth, Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR), and Health and Wellbeing in the Changing Urban Environment (UHW) will provide an overall thematic framing for the programme's activities. In that way, the programme will increase participation of the African scientific community in the implementation of these global research programmes. The programme will also promote the integration of gender

equity and poverty reduction dimensions in research practice and content.

Over the 5 years, the programme will launch three thematic calls for pre-proposals. Following each call, representatives of successful pre-proposals will be invited to attend a five-day training on integrated research that will strengthen scientific capacity to apply novel methodologies on knowledge co-design and co-production, and other relevant approaches required for undertaking high quality integrated research. Modules on proposal development and science communication will also be part of the training. Following the training. its participants will be given 2 months to develop full proposals. Successful full proposals will receive collaborative research grants up to 90000 Euro each over two years. Only participants of the training events on integrated research will be eligible to apply for the full grants.

After 5 years. the programme aims to consolidate a network of over 30 integrated research projects on global sustainability. The research produced by these projects should provide the evidence and create tools to support decision-making on complex sustainability challenges in Mrica. The lmowledge will also be used to inform intergovernmental policy processes and assessments (e.g. the Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction. IPCC. the New Urban Agenda, and others). This lmowledge will also contribute to the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals, particularly those concerning poverty, energy, cities, health, climate-related hazards and natural disasters.

The programme will organize annual research forums to foster collaboration and networking between the supported research projects. Projects' representatives will be invited to attend these events to share their results and experien ce with th eir peers. These events are expected to promote scientific exchanges and forge new research collaboration among projects.

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