IAI Professional Development Seminars to develop capacity building for global environmental change science and its policy application in the Americas

该奖项符合美国政府在美洲全球变化研究所缔约方大会第二十一届会议上确定的捐款，根据该捐款，建立美洲全球变化研究所的条约签署国同意为支持美洲全球变化研究所活动的研究预算提供捐款。本提案提交的项目预算支持使IAI理事会能够为多学科、多国研究和能力建设项目提供支持。这笔资金将用于支持在美洲举办的五个关于全球环境挑战的专业发展研讨会(PDS)。研讨会将探讨：跨学科科学团队管理技能；热带森林生态系统服务的管理；安第斯国家的生态健康办法；全球变化和多变性对南方共同市场国家人类健康的影响；以及在农村地区建设抵御风险的能力。这项建议的学术价值在于，该研究所在以下目标方面发挥了关键作用：开展区域合作，就全球环境挑战进行跨学科研究；开展任何一个国家或机构都无法开展的具有区域相关性的培训；将该区域的研究机构与全球方案联系起来；改善该区域各国的科学技术能力和研究基础设施；促进科学数据的标准化、收集、分析和交流；IAI已被美国国务院列为《联邦雇员国际组织服务法》所指的国际组织，由《美国法典》第5篇第3343条和第5篇《美国法典》第3581条所涵盖。目前，IAI理事会由乌拉圭主办，设在蒙得维的亚的乌拉圭技术实验室校园内，IAI理事会作为国际公认的法人行使职能，享有乌拉圭政府授予的相应特权和豁免。

This award satisfies a U.S. Government contribution identified at the Twenty-first Meeting of the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, Conference of the Parties, whereby signatories of the Treaty Establishing the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) agreed to contributions towards a research budget supporting the activities of the IAI. Program Budget Support, for which this proposal is submitted, allows the Directorate of the IAI to provide support for a multidisciplinary, multinational research and capacity building program. The funds will be used to support five Professional Development Seminars (PDS) for global environmental challenges in the Americas. Seminars will explore: Transdisciplinary Scientific Team Management Skills; Managing Ecosystems Services from Tropical Forests; Ecohealth Approach for the Andean countries; Impacts of Global Change and Variability on Human Health in the MERCOSUR countries; and Building Resilience to Risk in Rural Areas. The intellectual merit of this proposal lies in the essential role of the IAI in developing research capacity in relation to the IAI's objectives to implement regional cooperation for interdisciplinary research on global environmental challenges; to conduct training of regional relevance which cannot be conducted by any single country or institution; to link research institutions of the region to global programs; to improve the scientific and technical capabilities and research infrastructure of the countries of the region; to foster standardization, collection, analysis and exchange of scientific data; and to provide scientific information to government towards public policy on global environmental challenges.The IAI has been listed by the State Department as an international organization within the meaning of the Federal Employees International Organization Service Act, covered by 5 U.S.C. 3343 and 5 U.S.C. 3581.Currently, the IAI Directorate is hosted by Uruguay on the campus of the Technological Laboratory of Uruguay in Montevideo where the IAI Directorate functions as an internationally recognized juridical personality, with the corresponding privileges and immunities granted by the Government of Uruguay.