Month: May 2016

UNU-IAS and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network Japan (SDSN) are delighted to host this year’s ProSPER.Net Forum titled “Higher Education and the SDGs”.  Students, staff, faculty, and administrators from higher education institutions and other relevant stakeholders interested in the implementation…

The consultative workshop to review the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Environmental Education Action Plan (AEEAP 2014-2018) was held in conjunction with the 8th Meeting of the ASEAN Working Group on Environmental Education (AWGEE) in Singapore 11-12 April 2016….

Since June 2014, around 500 youth champions from 75 teams presented action-oriented, practicable and community participative proposals to address water and sanitation problems. Watch the video on ‘Strengthening Water and Sanitation in Urban Settings: Inter-University Competition on Water Resources Management’….

Watch the video on the latest Young Researchers’ School (YRS) in New Delhi, India 1-12 February, 2016. The YRS is only one of ProSPER.Net yearly activities that allows to find ways in which future researchers manage sustainability issues across a…

Norway’s Research Council’s large-scale Climate Programme KLIMAFORSK is a 10-year initiative for climate research (2014-2023). With an annual budget of 140 mio NOK, they are now accepting applications from universities, research institutes and other research groups, for example in the…

Since 1999 Ekhagastiftelsen has awarded more than 113 million Swedish Krona to different research projects in agriculture and medicine. Check their website on how you can apply for their grants. Read more

The Green Gown Awards recognise the exceptional sustainability initiatives being undertaken by universities and colleges across the world. Deadline is 8 June. Read more

The Atmospheric Physics Laboratory of the Institute of Physics of the University of São Paulo is seeking a Postdoc to work on air pollution research. Deadline is 30 May. Read more

Apply by 31 May for a post-doc position in the programme on Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere (GEDB) of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Read more