The Mountain Research Initiative is pleased to have joined the Belmont Forum’s Resilience CRA, offering targeted support for research focused on vulnerability and resilience in mountainous regions and/or highland–lowland linkages. Registration deadline has been extended to 7 November 2025.
With increasing environmental risks, scientists and disaster experts have been working with communities to develop new risk management approaches. The next step is to better integrate socio-environmental systems within these approaches and implement more holistic and transdisciplinary risk science. Taking inspiration from the recent COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the Belmont Forum’s Resilience CRA seeks to define and promote innovative risk management concepts that better account for global change and evolving human-nature interactions. The expected outcomes of this CRA include developing risk science in alignment with sustainability science, encouraging knowledge co-production, ensuring a focus on highly vulnerable territories, informing governance, and cultivating a new generation of scientists and stakeholders better equipped to address ever-rising environmental risks.
Key Focus Areas
The Belmont Forum welcomes proposals on ‘Vulnerability and Resilience Management for Socio-Environmental Systems in Exposed Territories’ for its Resilience CRA. The call for proposals encourages projects that address at least two of the following areas:
- Area 1: Better assess risks of increasing complexity with global change.
- Area 2: Pay specific attention to exacerbated vulnerabilities in highly exposed territories.
- Area 3: Develop innovative solutions for Disaster Risk Reduction.
Project Details
- Project Duration: Three years.
- Eligibility: Research Consortia must include three or more participants from at least three different countries, each requesting support from at least three different participating funding organizations. Consortia must be transdisciplinary, including partners from social sciences, STEM fields, and societal partners.
- Funding: Funding organizations from several countries (Brazil, Chinese Taipei, Italy, Japan, Switzerland, Turkiye) and non-governmental organizations (Mountain Research Initiative) have agreed to support the call.
MRI Funding for Mountain-Focused Proposals
This call is being supported by funding organizations from several countries, as well as a number of non-governmental organizations. The Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) is among them, offering targeted support for research focused on mountainous regions and/or highland–lowland linkages. The MRI Annex outlines both financial support (up to CHF 20,000 per project) and a range of in-kind contributions, including access to data, tools, and expert networks.
We encourage consortia submitting proposals that plan to apply for MRI support to get in touch with us at mri(at)mountainresearchinitiative.org.
Other queries can be sent to laurent.bernadou@belmontforum.org with the subject ‘CRA Resilience’.
Application
In order to apply for the Resilience CRA, you must first register.
Registration deadline (extended): 7 November 2025, 23:59 UTC
All applications must be made through the Belmont Forum grant operations system (BFgo.org). For full details, please refer to the call documents:
- Call for Proposals: English, French, Portuguese, Spanish.
- Registration Form and Instructions.
- MRI Annex.
The Belmont Forum is a partnership of funding agencies, international scientific councils, and regional consortia dedicated to promoting transdisciplinary, transnational research to help understand, mitigate, and adapt to global environmental change.
Cover photo by Vahid Moeini Jazani.