{"id":77442,"date":"2016-12-20T09:06:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T09:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=0cfbf635c8b2f2ccde2c53dfca1042ca"},"modified":"2016-12-20T09:06:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T09:06:58","slug":"news-story-connecting-food-water-and-energy-services-apply-for-funding-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77442","title":{"rendered":"News story: Connecting food, water and energy services: apply for funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK,  the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.esrc.ac.uk\/\">Economic and Social Research Council<\/a> (ESRC) and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ahrc.ac.uk\/\">Arts and Humanities Research Council<\/a> (AHRC) have \u00a31.6 million to invest in projects looking at sustainable urban services as part of a global collaboration worth \u20ac28.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/belmontforum.org\/sustainable-urban-global-initiative-sugi-food-water-energy-nexus\">Sustainable Urban Global Initiative (SUGI)\/Food-Water-Energy Nexus<\/a> is a competition jointly established by the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/igfagcr.org\/\">Belmont Forum<\/a> and the <a rel=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/jpi-urbaneurope.eu\/\">Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Partners taking part include many EU countries, Argentina, Brazil, Chinese Taipei, Japan, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey and the USA.<\/p>\n<p>The aim is to find new understanding of and solutions to the systemic management of food, water and energy in cities.<\/p>\n<p>UK organisations will be expected to collaborate with overseas partners on projects proposing integrated solutions across natural and social sciences, arts and humanities, and engineering under a number of themes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>development of a robust and accessible global sustainability knowledge base<\/li>\n<li>governance and management of the connections between food, water and energy services<\/li>\n<li>managing the risks and trade-offs that come out of sustainable urbanisation and the connecting of food, water and energy services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition is open, and the deadline for pre-proposals is 15 March 2017<\/li>\n<li>costs for UK elements of a project are expected to be up to \u20ac300,000<\/li>\n<li>the competition is open to cities, businesses and non-government organisations<\/li>\n<li>UK organisations must work with at least two partners from other participating countries<\/li>\n<li>the UK component of a project must include a business or industry organisation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/funding-competition-sustainable-urbanisation-global-initiative-sugi\">Find out more about this competition and apply.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK organisations can apply for a share of \u00a31.6 million to work on projects looking at new ways of managing food, water and energy services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}