We are excited to share with our community that a new call for funding contributions for MRI Synthesis Activities is set to be launched in the coming days!

These activities are community-led activities that bring people together for collaboration, and generate outcomes and outputs that integrate and synthesise existing data, information, publications, and/or other forms of knowledge and that have the potential to provide new insights on the state of mountains in a global context, thereby supporting the MRI’s mission and objectives in 2023-2026. We are particularly interested in syntheses activities that support and/or contribute to the work of the MRI Working Groups and other MRI Flagship Activities.

In the meantime, we encourage all MRI members interested in submitting a proposal to start gathering ideas, form consortia, formulate key syntheses questions that your proposed activity will seek to answer, plus co-design activities with a view to generating outputs such as publications.

A History of MRI Synthesis Activities and Outputs 

Since 2012, MRI has funded and supported thirteen synthesis workshops, covering a multitude of topics and synthesis of knowledge that are relevant as key inputs to address the challenges and opportunities of global change in mountain social-ecological systems. Explore and learn more about previous MRI syntheses activities here.  

The outputs of these workshops are numerous and continuously growing, so we have gathered them together in an article titled “Impact Stories from MRI-Funded Synthesis Workshops” for our readers to have an overview of how these workshops can drive mountain research and bring forth tangible results, thereby sustaining ongoing impact. 

The most recent output to have originated from an MRI Synthesis Workshop is the January 2025 publication in Nature titled “Perceived climate change impacts and adaptation responses in ten African mountain regions” by main author Aida Cuni-Sanchez; you can read more about that publication here. 

The upcoming call will be published here on our website and included in our next newsletter, and will be shared on our Facebook, LinkedIn, and Bluesky accounts. Follow us to stay up-to-date on future opportunities including jobs, various funding opportunities, and calls for publications. 

Cover photo by RODRIGO TORRES on Unsplash.