En-tête de navigationNavigation principaleSuiviFiche


Unité de recherche
DDC
Numéro de projet
7F-10360.01
Titre du projet
Wyss Academy for Nature at the University of Bern

Textes relatifs à ce projet

 AllemandFrançaisItalienAnglais
Description succincte
-
-
-
Anzeigen

Textes saisis


CatégorieTexte
Description succincte
(Anglais)

Project title

Wyss Center Bern (WCB) – Shaping Sustainable Futures for Nature and People

SDC priority theme

Climate Change and Environment

Project no.

7F-10360.01 (single phase)

Country or region

Global

Lead

The Wyss Center Bern Initiative is a new research and innovation set-up that should help address today’s complex global challenges related to nature conservation and human development. The initiative aims to develop new approaches to narrow the gap between research and practice and identify promising solutions to sustainable development challenges on several continents. The initiative also strengthens Switzerland’s profile on research for sustainable development.

Context

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development puts forward a broad and ambitious agenda for global action on sustainable development to address the threats resulting from adverse societal, economic and environmental transformation. Rapid and complex societal and economic transformations accelerate large-scale biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change, threatening human well-being locally and globally. The complexity, speed of transformations, uncertainties and conflicting interests between different actors make the development of pathways towards sustainable futures for nature and people and the achievement of the goals of the 2030 Agenda challenging. In this context, new research initiatives and approaches that bring together scientific knowledge with the experience and needs of stakeholders and affected people are urgently needed. Going beyond classical research approaches that tend to stop at the level of recommendations, the newly established Wyss Center Bern Initiative will not only bridge the gap between research and affected stakeholders, but will also finance and implement the most promising pilot solutions. Such a new approach of applied research should benefit from collaborations between different funders (private, public, science, development).

Overall goal

Developing and testing innovative pathways that strengthen and harmonize nature conservation, human well-being, and the use of natural resources in selected developing countries, in Switzerland and at global level through new forms of applied and participatory research, in order to shape sustainable futures for nature and people.

Key results and insights from previous phases (or baseline for first phase)

During a pilot phase (9.2018-12.2019) funded by the Wyss Foundation, the Wyss Center Bern (WCB) Initiative validated its concept and established so-called ”Regional Stewardship Hubs” in Kenya and in Peru. First pilot solutions to address nature conservation and human well-being were developed and tested, and the institutional structure of the WCB and the interlinkages with other institutions was defined.

Outcomes (objectives) of the planned phase

  1. Generation and use of data and knowledge
  2. Strengthening of regional partners
  3. Development of regional and global networks for knowledge sharing and joint development of solutions
  4. Initial development, testing and dissemination of workable solutions (pilots)

Key outputs of the planned phase

Outcome 1: (i) new people-centred conservation models are identified; (ii) open access to online platforms are installed and provide access to first data and analytical tools

Outcome 2: (i) key stakeholders have increased their capacity to support transformation; (ii) stakeholders have access and use data and analytical tools

Outcome 3: (i) strategic alliances and networks are established; (ii) specific round tables are set up and provide an interface for multi-stakeholder dialogues; (iii) researchers from the Global South share knowledge with the global scientific community

Outcome 4: (i) the Incubator Schemes are established and functional; (ii) identification and implementation of first innovations; (iii) upscaling and dissemination of learnings from the regional level activities

Target group/s

Scientific community involved in the WCB-Initiative

National and regional actors from civil society, economy, conservation and politics involved in the WCB initiative.

Policy makers, NGOs and the scientific community at a global level.

Other stakeholders and especially vulnerable groups that benefit from transformations achieved through the initiative.

Contract partner/s

Center for Development and Environment (CDE),

University of Bern

Coordination and synergies with other projects and actors

KFPE (scnat); r4d programme; SDC regional offices in East Africa (Kenya), South America (Peru) and Asia (Laos).

Start of phase: 15.11.2019

End of phase: 31.12.2022

SDC Budget of phase

CHF 3’000’000.

Total SDC expenses already spent since 1st phase (including opening credit)

n/a single phase

Total budget of phase including local partners and external contributions
Total: CHF 63 m over 3 years (the project has a 10 years expected duration)

CHF 30 m (Wyss Foundation)

CHF 15 m (Canton of Bern)

CHF 15 m (University of Bern)

CHF 3 m (SDC)

Estimated Swiss/SDC budget for the duration of the whole intervention (all phases combined, indicate total duration)

CHF 3’000’000

single phase 2019-22