{"id":5424,"date":"2020-03-22T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T13:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/?p=5424"},"modified":"2020-08-25T19:30:13","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T16:30:13","slug":"the-new-campaign-on-the-baikal-initiative-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/the-new-campaign-on-the-baikal-initiative-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"The new \u00abBaikal Initiative\u00bb contest is on"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Lake Baikal Foundation for Environmental Applications and Research is glad to announce the start of the new application campaign of the <a href=\"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/our-work\/partnership-for-sustainable-development\/baikal-initiative\/\">\u00abBaikal Initiative\u00bb<\/a>. The goal of the grant competition, initiated by the Foundation in 2017 and held for 4 years, is support for young scientists who implement scientific and applied projects, carry out field-based scientific studies and expeditions focused on protection of lake Baikal and development of the Baikal nature area. In 2020-2021, as in previous years, 1 million will be divided by three winners, who will implement the projects involving fundamental and applied scientific&nbsp;researches on the preservation of water resources, flora and fauna of the Baikal region, and development of citizen science on lake Baikal. The latter nomination is new and it aims to improve the existing practices and involve the population in collecting data about the local environment.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The regulations of the Baikal Initiative contest 2020-2021 and the application form can be accessed at <a href=\"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Polozhenie-o-konkurse-1.pdf\">the link<\/a>. The applications for the fourth contest are accepted from the 22<sup>nd<\/sup> March till the 30<sup>th<\/sup> June 2020 in electronic form through the Lake Baikal Foundation\u2019s mail &#8211;&nbsp;<a>bi@baikalfoundation.ru<\/a>. Following the results of Expert Council\u2019s evaluation, the Foundation will announce at least three finalists before the 1<sup>st<\/sup> September 2020. At the second stage \u2013 from the 15<sup>th<\/sup> September till the 15<sup>th<\/sup> December \u2013 the finalists will have to secure additional financing \u2013 20% of the budgeting specified in the application. All projects should be implemented from  1<sup>st<\/sup> February 2021 to 31<sup>st<\/sup> December 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experience of previous years has demonstrated the effectiveness of co-financing system, which simultaneously addresses the issue of popularization of science and draws the society\u2019s attention to the value of scientific studies in the sphere of environmental protection activities. The projects\u2019 co-financing was provided by the fund-raising on the crowdfunding platforms and by the engagement of the partners.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The  previous years results can be found on the Foundation\u2019s website in the News section.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photo: Kristina Makeeva<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applications are accepted till the 30th June in electronic form on bi@baikalfoundation.ru.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=5424"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6154,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5424\/revisions\/6154\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5005\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=5424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=5424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baikalfoundation.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=5424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}