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Overview
| Donor: | Velux Foundation |
| Application procedure: | Online Application |
| Donor base: | Switzerland |
| Reference number: | - |
| Eligible applicants: | Non-Profit Organisation |
| Deadline: | 30.09.2024 |
Financial details
| Grant size: | Small - up to $100,000 |
| Minimum grant size: | - |
| Total available budget: | - |
| Funding type: | Grants |
| Maximum grant size: | 100.000$ |
| Funding ratio: | up to 100% |
Sectors
- Environment & Natural Resources
- Research, Technology & Innovation
Project Locations
Africa
Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe
America
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Uruguay, Venezuela
Asia
Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, East Timor, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestine, Philippines, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, West Bank and Gaza, Yemen
Europe
Albania, Armenia, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Estonia, Georgia, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Ukraine
Pacific
Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Vanuatu
Description
1) Objective
Goals of the Forestry Program of Velux Foundation are:
- Fostering a change of perspective in the use and value of forests and sustainable forest management addressing the pressing issues of climate change and biodiversity loss as well as society’s need for timber. The change of perspective shall be solution-oriented and based on interaction between science and practitioners.
- Developing financial innovation and improved framework conditions shall offer leverage to implement sustainable forest management providing forests which can maintain biodiversity, act as a carbon sink and supply forest products.
Thematic focus:
– Innovative, sustainable and integrative forest management
to develop and provide solutions for adapting to or mitigating climate change, promoting biodiversity, providing resilient eco- systems services while supplying sustainable forest products.
– Incentives for action and behavioural change to transform the theoretical and abstract values of forest products and services.
Support is available for:
– Innovative research projects: with a high potential to foster change in practice. Therefore, the focus of the call is on implementation-oriented projects that need to include stake- holder engagement (see also C 5.) If well justified why no oth- er funding sources are available, basic research projects that have an interdisciplinary approach could be supported.
– Science-practice networks: that co-develop or implement ap- proaches that contribute towards the goals of the program. Support can be for existing or establishing networks.
2) Eligibility
They welcome projects with several partners. At least one partner needs to be from a university or a research institution. Other partners can be forest owners or practitioner associations, consulting or (non-) governmental agencies. The PI needs to be a person with a permanent employment status. The PI’s organization needs to be tax-exempted.
3) Location
Actions can take place in various countries in the Global South.
4) Budget
Scale of funding: Up to CHF 100’000 per year – with at least 10% to be used for knowledge transfer. A yearly budget of CHF 2 million will be dedicated to the program.
5) Application
The next deadline is 23 September 2024, with a final decision on proposals in March 2025.