The newly approved COST Action EUROBIG – the pan-European Biogeodynamics network – is open for new members
The funding programme COST has recently approved a new Action aimed to promote the emerging field of Biogeodynamics: EUROBIG, the pan-European Biogeodynamics network. Thus, the upcoming SNSF call for research projects associated with COST Actions gives Swiss-based researchers the opportunity to apply for funding of EUROBIG-related research projects.
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding programme that encourages networking of scientific and technological research activities throughout Europe and beyond. By supporting and linking the relevant communities, and facilitating cross-disciplinary interactions, external page EUROBIG – the newly approved COST Action – seeks to stimulate the development of Biogeodynamics as a fully established new discipline in Europe and worldwide. For full details about the EUROBIG COST action, please refer to this website: external page https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA23150/
EUROBIG opens new funding opportunities, as the SNSF organises yearly calls for COST research projects in Switzerland associated with recently approved COST Actions. Researchers based in Switzerland and actively participating in a COST Action can apply for the funding of a research project for up to four years for a budget of up to CHF 100’000 per year. Since COST research projects often cannot start at the same time as the associated COST Actions, the projects can continue beyond the end of the associated Action. The participation requirements for COST research projects are very similar to those of the SNSF’s project funding scheme; information will be available on the SNSF website: external page https://www.snf.ch/en/EpxgsoxjZBQv6id1/funding/programmes/cost
About EUROBiG
Growing evidence indicates that the Earth’s interior and surface evolution is intrinsically interrelated with the evolution of its atmosphere, oceans, landscape and life. This lays down principal foundations of Biogeodynamics – an emerging scientific field that explores the interface of geodynamics, geomorphology, climate, ocean and atmosphere sciences, geobiology and ecology with special focus on how the evolution of the planetary interiors, surface, atmosphere, ocean, climate, and life is intrinsically interrelated. Despite its strong scientific and educational potential, Biogeodynamics has not been yet fully established as a new discipline and the progress in this direction in term of both science and education is relatively slow. An intrinsically cross-disciplinary character of Biogeodynamics creates organisational, educational and scientific challenges due to the necessity of truly collaborative research and education to efficiently combine scientific knowledge, research tools and training approaches from the very different research fields (such as Earth Sciences, Biology, Ecology, Climate Sciences, Planetology), which traditionally evolved independently from each other.
To address the identified challenges, EUROBIG will establish the first pan-European Biogeodynamics network. This will accelerate the development of Biogeodynamics as a discipline in Europe and worldwide by supporting and linking the relevant communities, facilitating interactions to address the important scientific, methodological, educational and networking challenges of this new field.
Conducting this COST Action on a pan-European level will allow to establish and maintain European leadership in this new crucial scientific field with great future cross-disciplinary research, educational and societal potential.
EUROBIG is now open for new members to join. For more information please contact Prof. Dr. Taras Gerya.
Institut für Geophysik
Sonneggstrasse 5
8092
Zürich
Switzerland
