Deadline: 1 November 2024
The Science for Nature and People Partnership is requesting applications to fund expert teams to deliver rapid solutions to the most critical challenges facing humans and our planet.
SNAPP, a first-of-its-kind scientific joint venture between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), is a tool for developing sustainable solutions to global conservation challenges. Since inception, SNAPP, through its working groups, has provided science and user-friendly tools backed by hard data to identify and quantify nature’s role and value in preventing and solving some of the most complex challenges the world faces around food and water security, climate change, and energy.
Funding Information
- Each year, SNAPP provides up to US $1 million total across 4-6 approved working groups, led by academic, governmental agency, multilateral, or nonprofit institutions. SNAPP funds teams of 12-15 people from diverse organizations to gather for 3-4 collaborative sessions over the course of 12-24 months.
What they fund?
- Convening groups of interdisciplinary experts from different sectors who would not otherwise come together in retreat-like settings to tackle a problem at the intersection of people and nature that can be solved by rapidly synthesizing existing data, information and worldviews. These are SNAPP working groups.
- Salary, benefits and other direct costs of Research Fellows, who may be postdoctoral associates, graduate students and, in some cases, research assistants.
- Independent contractors or the actual time of technical employees conducting analysis, graphic design, webpage development, and similar activities for the working group.
- Virtual and in-person meetings, including third-party neutral facilitators, meeting planners, hotel, catering, meeting venue and technology, as well as individual attendee travel expenses.
Eligibility Criteria
- Researchers and practitioners of any nationality affiliated with an academic, governmental agency, multilateral, or nonprofit institution may submit a proposal.
- Individuals operating independently are also eligible to apply. Individuals from private sector institutions are fully eligible to be participants of a working group but are not eligible to lead SNAPP working groups as Principal Investigators (PIs, or team leads).
- Individuals and organizations from the humanitarian and development sectors are encouraged to submit SNAPP proposals.
- While many SNAPP working groups choose to fund a postdoctoral researcher, SNAPP funds cannot fund the salaries of the Principal Investigator(s), and the proposal should therefore not be written and submitted by a postdoc seeking to fund their ongoing work.
For more information, visit SNAPP.
