event 06 Jul 2018

The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI) // 15 Projects that Will Take On the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a call jointly established by the Belmont Forum and the Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe. The cooperation was established in order to bring together the fragmented research and expertise across the globe to find innovative new solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge. 15 selected projects will start during the first half of 2018.

Sugi catalogue
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Aim of the call

The interactions between food, water and energy are of paramount interest to policy, science and the society at large, today and even more so in the upcoming decades. Challenges connected with population increase and food shortages, scarce water and insufficient energy resources demand solutions.

The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus is a joint call established in order to bring together actors to find innovative new solutions to the Food-Water-Energy Nexus challenge. The ultimate goal is to increase the access and the quality of life.

The overall challenge today is to move to action through dialogue: from a sector oriented technocratic approach to one that recognises more diverse viewpoints and rationalities.

Belmont Forum and JPI Urban Europe have partnered to ensure participants across physical, natural, social sciences and arts and humanities as well as policy and decision makers and stakeholders around the world.

The call topics will enable the participants to develop projects that aim to find solutions to the Food-Water-Energy nexus for a sustainable urbanisation. The goal is to rapidly evolve the knowledge base, advance indicators and assessment tools that are needed for a comprehensive understanding of the FWE nexus.

Projects

The Sustainable Urbanisation Global Initiative (SUGI)/Food-Water-Energy Nexus projects will start during the first half of 2018. A total of 88 proposals were successfully submitted in the first evaluation phase and from these a total of 40 proposals were invited for the full proposal stage. In November 2017 these proposals were assessed by an expert panel and 15 projects were selected for funding.

Complete list of projects including participating partners
SUGI Projects Catalogue (PDF)

Call topics

  • Robust Knowledge, Indicators and Assessments
  • Multi-level Governance and Management of the Food-Water-Energy Nexus
  • Managing Potential Strategies and Solutions to address emerging Risk and Tradeoffs at the intersection of Sustainable Urbanisation and the Food-Water-Energy Nexus

Timeline

Start of projects December 2017-March 2018
Projects end January 2021

Belmont Forum and JPI Urban Europe

The Belmont Forum is a group of the world’s major and emerging funders of global environmental change research. It aims to accelerate delivery of the environmental research needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. The Belmont Forum pursues the goals set in the Belmont Challenge by adding value to existing national investments and supporting international partnerships in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scientific endeavors.

Joint Programming Initiative Urban Europe was created in 2010 with the ambition to develop a European research and innovation hub on urban matters and create European solutions by means of coordinated research. The aim is to create attractive, sustainable and economically viable urban areas, in which European citizens, communities and their surroundings can thrive.

SUGI Virtual Midterm Meeting (June 2020)

The SUGI midterm event took place on June 15 and 16, 2020. Below you can find the presentations from the meeting and an evaluation form where you can share your comments. We very much appreciate your input on how we can improve our events to make sure we shape a final event according to your needs and priorities!

Presentations:

> Management
> Reporting
> Communication
> Expert Committee on Innovation and Impact Delivery (ECIID)

Project videos

See all the great videos you produced for the meeting on both JPI Urban Europe’s and Belmont Forum’s YouTube channels.

CITYFOOD
CRUNCH
SUNEX
FEW-Meter
Vertical Green 2.0
Waste FEW ULL
IN-SOURCE
Creating Interfaces
METABOLIC
Urbanising in Place
M-NEX
IFWEN
FUSE
GLOCULL

SUGI Connect

Do you wish to exchange and make connections in the nexus of food, water and energy? Scroll the two SUGI connect pages where you find information on SUGI project coordinators, project partner organisations, project social media channels and involved cities and municipalities.

> Go to the SUGI Connect National Nodes Site
> Go to the SUGI Connect Project Nodes Site

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Documentation Kick Off Meeting

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