Belmont Forum – Towards the ocean we want: biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability for nature and human well-being (CRA Ocean 2)

The Belmont Forum is a partnership of funding organizations, international science councils and regional consortia committed to advancing transdisciplinary science. NSERC is participating in the Belmont Forum Collaborative Research Action (CRA) 'Towards the ocean we want: biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability for nature and human well-being' (Ocean 2), along with other Belmont Forum partners. This CRA aims at coordinating actions and projects through a transdisciplinary approach, fostering co-creation, co-design, and co-implementation of innovative solutions to address global environmental challenges related to the ocean, its biodiversity, from genes to ecosystems. The CRA will fund multinational research teams based on a two-step competition. NSERC will provide funding through an Alliance-type grant to eligible Canadian researchers in the natural sciences and engineering to support their participation in the funded research projects. This CRA is a formal contribution to the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development ('The Ocean Decade'). Each proposal must clearly identify the Ocean Decade Challenges being addressed and explain how the proposed project contributes to overcoming them, with Challenge 10 being a mandatory requirement for all projects.