Researchers are invited to attend a meeting about responses to the Research Hub Call convened by the Research Strategy Office. The objective of this meeting, which will be chaired by the member of the GCF advisory committee Bhaskar Vira, is to discuss specific ideas for the GCRF Research Hubs: key research questions, scope of the hubs, current and prospective partners to involve, outputs and impacts.

The Global Challenge Forum is organising a series of meetings from June onwards to establish thematic working groups, some of which are likely to focus on coordinating funding proposals.

In May and June the GCF will host a series of workshops with International NGOs and UN agencies. The aim is to increase demand-led global challenges research by making it easier for academics to understand the challenges faced by developing world communities from the perspective of those communities and from the NGOs working for and with them.