Robert Bosch Junior Professorship
Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources

Many of the earth's natural resources are dwindling. This makes the need both for new methods for sustained use of these resources and for interdisciplinary research to develop them ever more pressing. With the Robert Bosch Junior Professorship we seek to contribute to a better standing of the emerging field of sustainability science in Germany.

Each year we invite applications for the Robert Bosch Junior Professorship "Research into the Sustainable Use of Natural Resources", granting up to one million euros for independent research over a period of five years at a German university or research institute.

• The next call for applications will presumably be published in March 2011.

Eligible are scientists of all nationalities. Research approaches may be based in the natural sciences as well as in the social, developmental, political, medical and public health sciences. The research should focus on developing and emerging countries. If the applicant so wishes, the foundation may support him or her in negotiating a tenure track option at the host institution.

The chair of the Advisory Board and the selection committee is former German Minister for the Environment and Executive Director of UNEP, Klaus Töpfer.