Mountain Research Initiative call for synthesis activities 2025-2026

📣 The Mountain Research Initiative (MRI) wants to hear from you to help commemorate 25 years of making connections for our changing mountains!

As part of its mission, MRI provides funding contributions for syntheses activities that bring together global change researchers to address specific topics of relevance to the mountain research, policy, and practitioner communities.

For 2025-2026, the call is specifically focused on responding to a key MRI objective in the 2023-2026 period, namely to “consolidate the state-of-the-art based on 25 years of scientific advances, research, syntheses, data, and information that has been fostered via the MRI”. 

To what extent have MRI’s early research priorities and questions been addressed across mountain regions around the world? What remains unknown or poorly understood? Or, how has the practice of integrated global change research in mountain regions evolved over the years, and with what novel insights or traceable impacts on policy and for society?  

Call details

This call invites synthesis activities that generate outputs and outcomes that:

• Contribute to the MRI mission and objectives, with tangible outputs that help consolidate the state-of-the-art, addressing key topics of policy and/or societal relevance. 
• Respond to relevant knowledge needs such as the IPCC’s seventh assessment, UN-designated years and decades, or other global policy processes. 

Activities eligible for support under this synthesis call can include a combination of the following: workshops; scientific meetings; field-based or desktop data and information gathering, synthesis, and review; audiovisual, digital, or other novel formats for gathering and presenting synthesis data and information.

Have a proposal idea?

Explore MRI’s call for more detail on conditions and evaluation criteria, as well as the application process, key dates and milestones.

📅  Deadline for proposals:  6 June 2025, 23:59 CEST