Requests for proposals for both the Global Challenges Research Teams and for Resident Fellows are open until Jan. 31, 2024, Colorado State University’s School of Global Environmental Sustainability announced. Both are open to all CSU faculty and researchers.

The program for the Global Challenges Research Teams, or GCRTs, provides seed funding to foster new, creative approaches to complex sustainability problems and enables initial steps towards lasting solutions. Proposals should be highly innovative and exploratory in both their research questions and approach.

There is an opportunity to propose research teams in either of two categories:

• Sustainability research focused directly on humanitarian crises. Awarded GCRT will receive $60,000 total over two years.
• Research focused on any interdisciplinary sustainability topic. Awarded GCRT will receive $30,000 total over two years.

See this SoGES website page for more information and to apply.

SoGES also is seeking applications for faculty Resident Fellows from diverse perspectives, career stages and approaches at CSU. The program allows CSU faculty time and bandwidth to accelerate creative approaches and ideas for addressing complex sustainability problems. The program provides time and funds to faculty and researchers so that they may spend focused effort on novel sustainability scholarship, or new and creative approaches to existing work. For more information and to apply, see this SoGES website page.

“These GCRT and Resident Fellow awards provide unique opportunities to accelerate progress in research designed to meet global sustainability challenges, and to engage in the academic life of the school,” according to a SoGES announcement.