Funding of geosciences: Coordinating national and international resources
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The document discusses the coordination of funding resources for geosciences to address five grand challenges aimed at sustainable global change. It outlines the development of a roadmap to ensure access to scientific advice and identifies funding mechanisms at various levels, emphasizing collaboration among international, national, and local entities. The focus is on maximizing investment and leveraging existing efforts to support research for societal benefit through the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).
Funding of geosciences: Coordinating national and international resources
- 1. Funding of geosciences: Coordinating national and international resources B. L. Bye (1), K. Fontaine (2) (1) BLB, Norway (bentelil@hotmail.com), (2) NASA, Greenbelt, USA (kathy.fontaine@nasa.gov) Our Global Challenges GEO Science and Technology The international scientific community has identified five Grand Challenges that, if addressed in the next decade, will deliver knowledge to enable sustainable The Group on Earth Observations seeks to make Earth observations Roadmap development, poverty eradication, and environmental protection in the face of available to decision makers for GEO¡¯s Science and Technology global change. societal benefit through GEOSS. Committee developed a roadmap to ensure that GEO has access to scientific The five challenges for global and technological advice in support of its sustainability research are: GEOSS Work Plan. Part of the roadmap includes identifying processes for funding research 1. Forecasting The Global Earth Observation and development efforts in the societal System of Systems will provide benefit areas. Funding processes exist at 2. Observing decision-support tools to a wide many levels; capturing them is a variety of users. As with the challenge. Key to success is building 3. Confining Internet, GEOSS will be a global upon existing projects, using capacity and flexible network of content building techniques to bring projects and 4. Responding providers allowing decision makers funding sources together. to access an extraordinary range of information at their desk. 5. Innovating Egida Methodology GEO Work Plan As part of the roadmap activities, EGIDA developed a methodology for sustainable mechanisms at national and The Global Earth Observing System will contribute substantially to The GEO Work Plan provides the agreed regional levels that aim to coordinate national multi- challenge 2. Observing, as well as to the other. framework for implementing the GEOSS disciplinary ¡°System of Systems¡±. This methodology 10-Year Implementation Plan (2005- builds on existing national initiatives and European 2015). It is a living document that is projects, and facilitates the European S&T Community The Actors updated annually. The GEO Work Plan is an internationally negotiated plan that can contributions to and interactions with GEOSS. be used as advise for international funding Funding is based on national or agency mission or priority, scientific need or arrangements. Framework concept for funding priority, and many other factors. The process of funding involves all actors in the research system. From the ministries and councils at political level, to governmental and non-governmental funding organizations on implementation Best Practice Examples To enable sustainable funding mechanisms, processes to launch common calls for projects should be developed. level and also the performers ¨C the scientists - in an advisory capacity. All seek These will help to prepare for an international, jointly to maximize return on investment by leveraging existing efforts and working funded research programme which should reflect key tasks with partners. GEO provides a platform for identifying, discussing, and European Commission in the GEOSS ten year implementation and work plans. achieving results for societal benefit. FP7 is the short name for the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development. This is the EU's main instrument for funding research in References Europe and it will run from 2007-2013. FP7 is also designed ? GEO Science and Technology Road Map. to respond to Europe's employment needs, competitiveness ? GEO and Science (Jean-Louis Fellous et al) and quality of life . Important research and development . ? GEO Tasks ST-09-01 and ST-09-02, Task ID-02 projects are funded through Framework calls. ? OECD Committee for Scientific and Technological Policy (CSTP) earthobservations.org ? Governance of International Co-operation on Science, Technology and Innovation for Global Challenges, ICSU (2010). The Global Earth Observation System of Systems will provide ? Earth System Science for Global Sustainability: The Grand Challenges. Recommendations decision-support tools to a wide variety of users in nine Societal Benefit Areas. International Opportunities Fund International Council for Science, Paris ? EC funding for implementing GEO Road Map ¨C Egida ? Identify and mitigate barriers (financial, legal, organizational, etc.) to The International Opportunities Fund is a joint funding call between the Belmont Forum and G8 Heads of Research implement activities in support of the GEOSS Work Plan. Councils (G8HORCs) for approximately 20M Euros. The countries involved in this initiative, currently, are Australia, ? Maximize investment through focusing on the multidisciplinary challenges Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States of in the GEOSS-activities. America. Possibilities for collaboration for non-participatory countries and developing countries exist as well. The current ? Encourage common calls projects at the appropriate level (agency, national, International Opportunities Fund is aimed at supporting research in the areas of Coastal Vulnerability and Freshwater trans-national, multinational, etc.) to meet GEO Targets and enable Security. completion of the Work Plan activities. ? Gather, share, and encourage best practices.