SUGI 2016

About SUGI:

  The Food-Water-Energy Nexus / Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI) is a joint call by the Belmont Forum and the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe to bring together the fragmented research and expertise across the globe to find innovative solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge.

The call seeks to develop more resilient, applied urban solutions to benefit a much wider range of stakeholders. The rapid urbanization of the world’s population underscores the importance of this focus. International partners are invited to develop solutions for this challenge.

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Call Themes:

1. Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments.

2. Multi-level Governance and Management of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus.

3. Managing Potential Strategies and Solutions to address emerging Risk and Tradeoffs at the intersection of Sustainable Urbanisation and the FWE Nexus.

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Funding Agencies:

• MINCyT(Argentina)

• FFG(Austria)

• FWO(Belgium)

• Innoviris(Belgium)

• FAPESP(Brazil)

• RPF(Cyprus)

• ANR(France)

• BMBF(Germany)

• JST(Japan)

• VIAA(Latvia)

• NOW(Netherlands)

• RCN(Norway)

• NCN(Poland)

• QNRF(Qatar)

• UEFISCDI(Romania)

• ARRS(Slovenia)

• Formas(Sweden)

• Swedish Energy Agency(Sweden)

• NSTC(Taiwan)

• TÜBİTAK (Türkiye)

• AHRC / ESRC / Innovate UK(UK)

• NSF(USA)