IAI Interdisciplinary Training Program

这笔赠款支持IAI的一项培训计划，该计划由五个培训机构和Colloquia组成，主题是全球环境变化科学及其应用的跨学科主题。作为培训机构的一部分，将向成功的参与者提供种子补助金，以积极跟进培训活动，并将获奖者融入现有的IAI研究团队。参与者将是自然和社会科学家、政策制定者、环境从业者和其他利益攸关方。将讨论具有区域重要性的主题：气候与公共卫生、治理、风险、脆弱性和适应、水资源管理和研究分析工具，包括复杂的人类/自然系统的建模。种子赠款将为参与者提供保持参与、建立网络和将所提供的培训应用于现实世界问题的机会。该计划将加强和促进跨国和多学科合作，还可能增加小国对IAI研究计划的参与。这些活动将与IAI的其他科学计划合作开展，以使目前的IAI研究加强各研究所并产生跨计划的互动。美洲全球变化研究所(IAI)是根据美洲国家代表之间缔结的一项国际协议建立的，即1992年5月13日在蒙得维的亚签订的建立美洲全球变化研究所的协议(IAI协议)。IAI协定设立了一个政府间组织，目的是协调和促进与全球变化有关的科学研究。该研究所有一个不断发展的科学议程，确定了特定的研究领域。IAI的正式成员仅限于国家。该研究所由缔约方年度会议和附属执行理事会(欧委会)管理。欧共体目前由美国政府担任主席。IAI具有国际组织的基本体制特征：它是根据国际协定设立的，由国家组成，由各国代表组成的机构管理。美国政府积极参与IAI。美国在IAI的创建中发挥了主导作用，并自IAI成立以来一直是其积极参与者。美国政府高级官员曾在执行委员会任职，并担任过与IAI活动有关的其他负责职位。此外，IAI已被国务院和人事管理办公室列为《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343条和第5篇第3581条所涵盖。

This grant supports an IAI training program consisting of five Training Institutes and Colloquia on interdisciplinary themes of global environmental change science and its applications. As part of the training institutes, Seed Grants will be provided to successful participants to actively follow-up the training events and integrate the recipients with existing IAI research teams. Participants will be natural and social scientists, policy-makers, environmental practitioners and other stakeholders. Regionally important themes will be addressed: climate & public health, governance, risk, vulnerability and adaptation, water resource management, and research analysis tools including the modeling of complex human/natural systems. Seed grants will provide an opportunity for participants to stay engaged, to build networks and to apply the training provided to real-world issues. The program will strengthen and foster multinational and multidisciplinary collaboration and may also increase the participation of small countries in IAI research programs. These activities will be developed in collaboration with other IAI science programs so that current IAI research enhances the institutes and generates cross-program interactions.The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) was created by an international agreement concluded among representatives of American States, namely the Agreement Establishing the Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research, done at Montevideo on May 13, 1992 (the IAI Agreement). The IAI Agreement created an intergovernmental organization for the purposes of coordinating and promoting scientific research related to global change. The Institute has an evolving Scientific Agenda identifying particular areas for research. Full membership in the IAI is limited to States. The Institute is governed by an annual Conference of the Parties, and by a subsidiary Executive Council (EC). The US Government currently chairs the EC. The IAI possesses the fundamental institutional characteristics of an international organization: it was created by international agreement, is composed of States and is governed by bodies composed of representatives of States. The US Government participates actively in the IAI. The United States played a leading role in the creation of the IAI, and has been an active participant in the IAI since its creation. Senior US Government officials have served on the Executive Council and held other responsible positions related to IAI activities. Furthermore, the IAI has been listed by the State Department and by the Office of Personnel Management 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.