11th sDiv Call for Early Career Researcher Working Groups (ECR) and Modular Synthesis Projects (SynFlex)
Pre proposal deadline: 16 Dec 2022, Full proposal deadline: 19 April 2023
This call is for projects starting in 2024. Funding cannot be guaranteed after September 2024. This is subject to the approval of iDiv funding beyond the DFG funding.
What?
- All topics and questions related to biodiversity synthesis (incl. social sciences etc) are welcome.
- Funding is available for working groups lead by Early Career Researchers (ECR call) & Synthesis Projects being allowed to use other approaches than working groups (SynFlex)
- With this call, we would again like to encourage proposals that engage genuinely with topics and researchers from underrepresented regions (see list here)
- PLEASE NOTE: No Phd student or postdoc salaries are funded in this call
- Each proposal needs to involve at least one iDiv member (full & associated members are eligible). Candidates are encouraged to be pro-active in communicating with suitable project partners (assistance by the sDiv head Marten Winter if needed).
How to apply?
- via the iDiv application portal* as PDF file using the provided templates
- Pre-Proposal, decisions will be made on 19 January 2023
- Full Proposal decisions will be made made on 28 June 2023
* Registration is required to create your application. It is possible to safe and change data at any time until the final submission. Please contact sDiv for assistance.
10th Call - Five projects funded
Following our 10th Call, sDiv has received 13 pre-proposals for early career working groups and 16 pre-proposals for SynFlex projects. Four applicants for early career working groups as well as six applicants for SynFlex projects received a positive evaluation of their pre-proposal and were invited to submit a full proposal.
After intensive discussions of the internal and external reviews of proposals of very high scientific quality, the sDiv Evaluation Board has decided to support one early career working groups, four SynFlex projects. One ECR Project was invited for a proposal revision - the decision will be made mid of November 2022.
Congratulations to our new sDiv working groups and future sDiv collaborators!
Funded early career working groups
sMoste –Motifs supporting STability of Ecosystem services
main PIs:
Kate Wootton, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Anshuman Swain, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Funded SynFlex projects
sGUBIK –Synthesizing Global Urban Biological Invasion Knowledge (sGUBIK): Patterns, Mechanisms, and Applications
main PIs:
Luke Potgieter, University of Toronto Scarborough, Scarborough, Canada
Daijiang Li, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
sUnderfoot –Functional diversity of belowground plant strategies in a rapidly changing world
main PIs:
Joana Bergmann, Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Müncheberg, Germany
Alessandra Fidelis, Universidade Estadual Paulista, São Paulo, Brasil
sCaleGrassDiv –Do the mechanisms of land-use effects on grassland plant diversity depend on spatial scales and environmental contexts?
main PIs:
Anna Kuzemko, Institute of Botany NAS Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Oksana Buzhdygan, Theoretical Ecology Group, Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
sELOdiv –sELOdiv: Synthesising Ecosystem and Land cover Observations and biodiversity change after abandonment and depopulation
main PIs:
Gergana Daskalova, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
Sylvia Dyulgerova, Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
Open call for sabbaticals
Pre proposal deadline: 25 Jan 2023, Full proposal deadline: 5 April 2023
This call is for projects starting in 2024. Funding cannot be guaranteed after September 2024. This is subject to the approval of iDiv funding beyond the DFG funding.
What?
• For Sabbatical projects running until September 2024.
How to apply?
• via the iDiv application portal* as PDF file using the provided templates
• Final decisions will be announced in May 2023
