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Bridge Spark Fund: Request for proposals

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Bridge Spark Fund is a new funding opportunity by the Bridge Collaborative, aiming to expand the pipeline of integrated solutions ready to address today’s most pressing global challenges.

This new funding opportunity will award four US$150,000 awards to advance testing of solutions that benefit people and nature related to the following challenges:

  • Accelerating a low-carbon, clean air and environmentally-friendly energy future for all
  • Transforming the global food system for health and sustainability
  • Improving sanitation and wastewater management to benefit people and nature

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BEES Market

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This year’s BEES Market will take place on 20 December 2019 in Brussels, at INBO headquarters. The Market will be co-organised with the Belgian IPBES National Focal Point. A series of workshops will take place and linkages will be made with the IPBES Global Assessments.

The BEES market is the single event gathering research and practice on the topic of ‘ecosystems and society’ on a Belgian scale. Research institutes and academic groups, administration projects and local initiatives on nature, forestry, agriculture, ecosystem services, environmental justice, green economy etc. meet in a personal and relaxed atmosphere, learning from each other and strengthening the community. [Read more…] about BEES Market

BEES Docu & Debate

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In the morning of 17 october 2019 at ULB in Brussels, BEES organises a projection/debate on the theme of citizen engagement and science. You can discuss in a friendly athmosphere how to tackle today’s challenges regarding climate and biodiversity.

When: 17 October 2019 from 9AM until 2 PM.

Where: at ULB, auditoire Bourgeois, Brussels

Click here for program and registration.

Conference: Cities as social-ecological Systems 

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The 3rd World Conference of the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE2020), 6-8 July 2020, Poznań, Poland

The conference programme covers a wide range of topics related to urban ecological aspects and social components interdependencies in cities. The leading concept of the SURE2020 conference in Poznań is to provide the welcoming forum for scholars, experts and business and administration professionals to present their research and discuss the ideas, concepts, experiences and different points of view. [Read more…] about Conference: Cities as social-ecological Systems 

Provide early input to the scoping process of the IPBES nexus and transformative change assessments: Online conferences

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As part of the scoping processes for the thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health (“nexus assessment”) and the thematic assessment of the underlying causes of biodiversity loss, determinants of transformative change and options for achieving the 2050 vision for biodiversity (“transformative change assessment”) of  IPBES, two online conferences will be held. They are tentatively scheduled as follows:

  • 30 September – 2 October 2019: Online conference to seek input for the scoping process for the nexus assessment
  • 9 – 11 October 2019: Online conference to seek input for the scoping process for the transformative change assessment

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