This funding opportunity aims to further the design and implementation of co-produced adaptation and mitigation strategies for vulnerable groups. Vulnerable groups are those currently most impacted by the effects of climate change, owing to both:
- physical vulnerability: heightened exposure to events related to climate change or poor infrastructure
- socioeconomic vulnerability: limited resources to prepare or respond to the impacts of climate change, including knowledge, technology or financial resources, or owing to conflict, security and fragility
The opportunity is supporting international teams to conduct research that is both:
- interdisciplinary: integrating information, data, techniques, tools, perspectives, concepts or theories from 2 or more disciplines or bodies of specialised knowledge
- trans-sectoral: involving the academic, research, economic (businesses), societal (governmental and non-governmental) organisations, and community sectors, as appropriate
International project teams must be interdisciplinary, incorporating expertise from across disciplines, as appropriate, to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies, and including expertise in the social sciences or humanities to address enabling factors such as:
- effective governance
- community capacity
- geopolitical and economic security
UKRI will fund the UK component of the successful international projects. The full economic cost of the UK component can be up to £500,000. UKRI will fund 80% of the full economic cost.
Funding is available for 3-year projects.