The Belmont Forum is an international partnership that mobilizes funding of environmental change research and accelerates its delivery to remove critical barriers to sustainability.The Belmont Forum has funded international teams of natural scientists, social scientists, and stakeholders to conduct transdisciplinary research.
Established in 2009, the Belmont Forum is a partnership of funding organizations, international science councils, and regional consortia committed to the advancement of transdisciplinary science. Forum operations are guided by the Belmont Challenge, a vision document that encourages:
` International transdisciplinary research providing knowledge for understanding, mitigating and adapting to global environmental change.Scientist and stakeholder support is made possible through Collaborative Research Actions (CRAs), which are the Forum equivalent of a call for proposals. Since its establishment, the Forum successfully led 17 calls for proposals, supporting 99 projects and more than 1000 scientists and stakeholders, representing over 40 countries on 6 continents.