The Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Lab is organizing a Global Summit this September.

Funded by EPSRC, NERC and ESRC, the CRUISSE (Challenging Radical Uncertainty in Science, Society and the Environment) Network aims to help decision-makers in industry, government and civil society get together with academics from a wide range of disciplines in mathematical, environmental, engineering, psychological, social and other disciplines to provide better understanding and support to practitioners when they have to make difficult decisions stemming from uncertainty.

Through this workshop, participants will share data/experience on earthquake risk assessment, train early career researchers, attract funding and help develop worldwide research. The workshop builds on complementary expertise of two world-leading institutions (University of Sheffield and Istanbul Technical University) in the field of Earthquake Engineering which for over 20 years have been actively involved in collecting seismic data, testing structures, developing frameworks for Vulnerability Assessment, Rapid Seismic Risk Assessment and Management, and a System Approach for Industrial Facilities. These are critical for the updating of the Turkish National Earthquake Strategy and Action Plan.

On 5 July 2017, Research Councils UK (RCUK), the strategic partnership of the UK's seven Research Councils and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) announced they would shortly be launching the UK-China Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Centre Partnerships Initiative under the umbrella of the Newton Fund. The partners will be holding a workshop for researchers on w/c 20th November in China to explore opportunities for collaboration in this area.

AHRC are hosting a webinar to provide more details about the call and how the AHRC research community can address the aims of the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Interdisciplinary Research Hubs call. Representatives from AHRC and RCUK will be on hand to answer questions.

Cambridge Global Food Security is a Strategic Research Initiative of the University of Cambridge that promotes interdisciplinary approach to addressing the challenge of ensuring all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs and preferences for an active and healthy life.

All who are interested in the intersection between food and farming and health are invited to join the ‘Agriculture and health’ discussion to hear relevant stories, engage with expert panelists and meet like-minded people.

NERC is hosting a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) community engagement workshop about the GCRF and the second collective fund call (Interdisciplinary Research Hubs to Address Intractable Development Challenges). Registration for elevator talk: 7th August 2017; General registration: 14th August 2017.

RCUK has recently developed a Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) global engagement programme. The programme is taking a number of different approaches to engagement, including running a series of large international, Global Engagement Meetings (GEMs) in different regions of the world; smaller scale capacity building events; and hosting GCRF sessions at other events. The aim of these events is to showcase the opportunities available through GCRF, to bring together developing country and UK researchers and to discuss opportunities for maximising the contribution of GCRF research into policy and practice.

This one day symposium will harness learning across the globe to consider the transformations required for a healthy, sustainable world. It will bring the best minds together with the expertise of key individuals to help solve these conundrums in practical, sustainable and hopeful ways and it will highlight recommendations for the next 5-10 years.