Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship (Gondwana)
In November 2005 the Alcoa Foundation announced a groundbreaking sustainability research program, drawing together five of the world’s leading universities including Australia’s Curtin University of Technology.
The A$11.3 million, six-year global research program will involve:
• Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia
• London School of Economics and Political Science
• Brazil’s University of Sao Paulo
• Tsinghua University in Beijing
• University of Michigan, USA
These universities will each form a Sustainability Cabinet and support academic fellowships to research key sustainability issues and devise solutions and pathways for positive change.
Curtin University will receive A$1.5 million funding from the Alcoa Foundation for research into the sustainability challenges and opportunities in the south coast region of Western Australia. This research will be focused on an area extending from the town of Walpole to the South Australian border and about 150 kilometres inland.
With globally significant biodiversity, rich and varied natural resources, a diversifying economic base and changing demography, this region exemplifies many of the sustainability issues facing Western Australia and other regions around the world.
We are pleased to be working with Curtin University on this exciting venture which will help local conservation and sustainability projects tap into global networks, while allowing researchers around the world to learn from local knowledge and experience.
As a global partnership between industry, universities, non-government organisations and communities, it represents a further development of the partnership approach that we have embraced in many areas over the last decade.
The Alcoa Foundation’s Conservation and Sustainability Fellowship is an exciting program which will focus on devising innovative solutions to challenges such as population change, social cohesion, environmental protection, economic development and quality of life.
It aims to develop a global network of innovators and thought leaders whose research will lead to effective policies and practices that can be adopted locally and globally.
The program will support 30 academic fellows around the world including six fellows who will be selected and mentored by Curtin University, receiving up to two years funding for post-doctoral research.
Adding further depth to the pool of knowledge developed through this program, the Alcoa Foundation will also fund 60 practitioner fellowships linked to three highly respected non-government organisations:
• The International Union for Conservation of Nature in Switzerland
• The World Wildlife Fund in the USA
• The Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico
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