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11th sDiv call - current status - Pre-Proposal decisions made!
sDiv Calls for Early Career Researcher Working Groups (ECR) and Modular Synthesis Projects (SynFlex)
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.
Current status:
Within the latest call, sDiv has received 15 pre-proposals for early career working groups and 13 pre-proposals for SynFlex projects. 6 applicants for early career working groups as well as 7 applicants for SynFlex projects have received a positive evaluation of their pre-proposal and have been invited to hand in a full proposal until 19 April 2023. Decisions will be made at the end of June 2023.
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 under-represented regions (see list here)
- PLEASE NOTE: No Phd student or PostDoc salaries are funded in this call
When?
- Full proposal submission upon inviation before 19 April 2023, 11:59 PM CET via the iDiv application portal* as PDF file using the provided templates.
- Decision made on 28 June 2023
Rules?
- 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).
* 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.
Call for Early Career Researcher Working Groups (ECR) Open to Early Career Reseachers | Call for Modular Synthesis Projects (SynFlex) Open for all scientist worldwide for modular flexible |
Documents | Documents |
General Information Material
- General information about the sDiv framework (PDF)
- Call Description - one pager (PDF)
- iDiv Data & Code Sharing Policy (PDF)
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10th Call - 5 projects funded
Following our 10th Call, sDiv has received 13 pre-proposals for early career working groups and 16 pre-proposals for SynFlex projects. 4 applicants for early career working groups as well as 6 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 1 early career working groups, 4 SynFlex projects. 1 ECR Project has to resubmit is proposal - 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