CALL FOR APPLICATIONS : INTERNATIONAL CHAIRS FOR NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS : INTERNATIONAL CHAIRS FOR NATURE-BASED SOLUTIONS
French universities and research institutions hold a particularly strong international position in biodiversity research. France is therefore ideally placed to take a major role in the development of Nature-based Solutions (NbS). To strengthen links with international research networks, the NbS-Chairs program proposes hosting visiting researchers from abroad . These collaborations will encourage knowledge exchange and the development of innovative research projects. The objective is to better structure French research on NbS while addressing environmental, social, and economic challenges. The program promotes interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches through long-term stays of international visiting researchers. Visiting researchers will also contribute to teaching and educational innovation. They will be involved in Bachelor’s and Master’s programs as well as through specialized degrees and online learning tools. Finally, the program aims to strengthen international partnerships and support large-scale European and global projects.
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Short PEPR SOLU-BIOD description
The main objective of the Nature-based Solutions French National Research Program (SOLU-BIOD) is to propose Nature-based Solutions (NbS) as a major element of the paradigm shift needed for a more effective, simultaneous response to the crisis of biodiversity and to current societal challenges.
SOLU-BIOD has been designed as a transformative program to structure and strengthen the French research community on NbS around innovative scientific challenges. The ultimate goal is twofold: to unlock the potential of NbS to solve societal problems and to pave the way for an ambitious national plan on NbS. The innovative systemic solutions developed by the NbS approach will improve the status of biodiversity and will have numerous beneficial environmental, economic and social outcomes.
Main overview of the SOLU-BIOD program
SOLU-BIOD will profoundly change access to data and scientific knowledge (FAIR policy) on NbS, while rethinking higher education as well as academic training and creating unprecedented access to expertise on these types of solutions in French territories.
Four priority socio-ecosystems have been identified by the SOLU-BIOD program. These priority socio-ecosystems will catalyse research around situations that correspond to crucial and urgent societal and environmental challenges and major needs of public and private decision makers: protected, coastal, rural and urban areas.
The four priority socio-ecosystems identified in SOLU-BIOD
SOLU-BIOD supports the creation and the functioning of Living Labs as innovative tools for the profound transformation of NbS research practice. These are inter- and transdisciplinary fields of research, well rooted in local territories, allowing an intensive form of participation and involvement of stakeholders. Eleven Living Labs have been established in 2024 to formalise the approach to in-depth stakeholder collaboration for co-design and implement the NbS. Protected areas are the focus of two Living Labs, while coastal, urban and agricultural areas are the focus of three Living Labs each.