NWO and the National Research Foundation of South Africa (NRF) aim to finance and
strengthen scientific collaboration between the Netherlands and South Africa.
Consortia of research institutes and other organisations (both
public and private) in the Netherlands and in South Africa can apply for
funding of joint research projects that focus on the Water-Energy-Food (WEF)
nexus in urban contexts.
The aim of this call is to support
research into the WEF nexus with a view to enable suitable policy responses at
particularly the local government level in urban contexts. Studies should have
a clear methodology explaining how the WEF nexus approach can be integrated in
governance and planning to support decision making for resilient cities.
Research projects funded in this call should focus on at least one of the
following research foci:
·
The current state of the WEF nexus in urban areas: Looking at e.g.
interlinkages, synergies, and trade-offs between water, energy and food
provision in urban areas, including challenges of communities and local
governments in providing water, energy and food, temporal and spatial
dimensions and their systemic and cumulative impacts and technical innovations.
- Governance challenges and
socio-technical arrangements: Research on governance challeges may include
e.g. capicities of municipalities, the alignment of sectors, the design
and implementation of WEF policies and looking systematically at
complexities and socio-technical tranformations and arrangements.
- Capacity building: Capacity
building at local community, government and the educational sector, e.g.
mainstreaming the WEF nexus in education and training, looking at
pedagogies, perceptions and practices and focussing on citizen sciences
and co-creating knowledge and co-learning of citizens, practitioners and
researchers.
- Scaling for a regional/global
perspective: Research into the urban WEF nexus in South Africa has the
potential to be highly valuable for other contexts. Research proposals can
include a focus on the potential for scaling up or out to national,
regional or global levels.
Funding Information
The total budget for
this call is 1.4 Million euros on the Dutch side, and R6 Million (i.e. 360,000
euros) on the South African side. Projects can apply for a maximum of 700,000
euros at NWO for four years and a maximum of R3 Million (i.e. 180,000 euros) from
the NRF for three years (not more than R1 Million, i.e. 60,000 euros per
annuum).
Eligibility Criteria
Applications can be
submitted by consortia consisting of the following:
- Dutch Principal Investigator,
who will submit the application to NWO;
- A South African Principal
Investigator, who will submit the application to NRF;
- A societal partner, such as a
local or municipal government or NGO, or a partner from industry.
Your consortium may
include additional applicants. However, it must include the above applicants in
order to be eligible.
Post Date - 02-Sep-2020