The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is offering a full-time postdoctoral research position to support activities within a Horizon Europe project. The project focuses on developing innovative crop rotations as a nature-based solution to help agriculture adapt to climate change (www. transform-rotations.eu). Led by INRAE (France), it involves 18 partners from seven countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Spain, and the UK). This research will be conducted within BC3's research line 4 on Adaptation to Climate Change.
About the project:
The project aims to accelerate innovation in crop rotations as nature-based solutions that deliver multiple economic, social, and environmental benefits, thereby ensuring sustainable and resilient agricultural adaptation to climate change. Project partners work closely with stakeholders to design and understand adaptation needs. This includes formulating agricultural adaptation roadmaps, identifying farmers' preferences for crop rotations, predicting the economic, social, and environmental benefits and costs, and evaluating these against regional roadmap objectives to select rotations that best meet societal needs and preferences. The project will provide tools and methods—such as workshop designs, serious games, agronomic and agroecological models under climate change scenarios, choice experiments, and mapping—to support regions and farmers in adapting to climate change.
The postdoctoral researcher will collaborate with the Principal Investigator, Dr. Sébastien Foudi, and other team members to test economic models analysing farmers' rotational choice behaviours, as well as exploring the trade-offs and synergies with other agricultural practices (e.g., pesticide use, chemical fertilization). Using questionnaires designed as choice sets, this work will examine the complementarity and substitutability between crop rotation and other farming practices, focusing on their role in risk management. The work aims to identify the key economic and behavioural factors influencing the adoption of crop rotation and agroecological practices.
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IMPORTANT : Applications including links or references to previous works/projects/initiatives that show how the applicant meets these requirements will be given priority.
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Starting in winter/early spring 2025, the position will be for 3 years, with a 6-months' probation period based on performance.
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SalaryThe position will carry competitive salary, matching the academic and professional profile of the applicant, and excellent work conditions.
LocationBasque Centre for Climate Change, Leioa, Spain.
As an HR Excellence awarded institution, BC3 is committed to conciliating research-academic requirements and family duties. BC3 is particularly concerned with creating equal opportunities for people independently of gender, culture, and race. Anyone with relevant qualifications is therefore strongly encouraged to apply for the position.
Application procedure:Fill the form below and upload one PDF document with the following information:
31 January, 2025 (CET 15:00).
Informal enquiries can be made to Dr. Sébastien Foudi ([email protected]) noting in the subject of the message “POSTDOCTORAL POSITION”.
Please consider that only applications sent through the form included at the bottom of the BC3 web page will be considered (https: // info.bc3research.org/job-offers/).
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