The Belmont Forum
The Belmont Forum was established in 2009 from the International Group of Funding Agencies for Global Change Research (IGFA), a network created in 1990 to support global change research. It brings together funding organizations, international science councils, and regional consortia to coordinate international research funding and collaboration.
Guided by the Belmont Challenge, the Belmont Forum promotes transdisciplinary, transnational, and solution-oriented research addressing global environmental change. Taiwan participates through the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) and Academia Sinica, with NSTC serving as the primary funding agency supporting Taiwanese participation in Collaborative Research Actions (CRAs).
The Belmont Forum Program Office (BFPO)
NSTC joined the Belmont Forum in 2015 and established the Belmont Forum Program Office (BFPO) in 2016 to coordinate Taiwan's participation in Belmont Forum activities and to support Taiwanese researchers in CRAs.
BFPO operates under the supervision of NSTC's Department of Natural Sciences and Sustainable Development. The program is led by Distinguished Research Fellow Yue-Gau Chen of the Research Center for Environmental Changes at Academia Sinica, together with six Co-PIs from Academia Sinica, National Cheng Kung University, National Chengchi University, and National Taipei University.
The office is supported by a team of postdoctoral researchers and research assistants who coordinate Belmont Forum–related activities and facilitate domestic and international collaboration.
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