The Agropolis Fondation (AF) of France, in collaboration with Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) and Biovision Foundation, recently launched the Call for Applications on Innovative Co-learning for Agriculture-based Solutions. The objective of the Call is to capitalize on, enhance or strengthen such practices as well as to explore new transdisciplinary, crosscutting or resolutely different methodologies, tools, approaches and sectors. It also aims to support innovative, inter-sectoral and cross-disciplinary learning, for promoting agroecological transition through transformative approaches and tools, innovative teams and networks.
The present Call covers three crosscutting axes, namely:
- Axis 1: Agriculture and climate change: adaptation and mitigation
- Axis 2: Conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity
- Axis 3: Responsible production and consumption
Likewise, the Call is offering various types of scholarships: Twin-post docs, partial PhD fellowships, young scientist, and summer schools.
To learn more of the Call, AF and SEARCA is organizing an Information session on 14 December 2020, 4:00PM Manila time.
AF and SEARCA initiated its partnerships in 2018 for Joint PhD scholarship program, where the scholars spend 18 months in any of SEARCA's study posts and another 18 months in a research unit in Montpellier, France from among Agropolis Fondation's vast scientific network, under a Cotutelle program. These scholars are jointly supervised by scientists, researchers and/or professors from these two institutions.
