Topic: democracy

Build new research partnerships across Sweden, South Africa and another eligible African country. Themes include sustainable health, green transition, migration and urbanisation, and democracy and indigenous knowledge. Projects run from March 2027 to July 2028. Both PIs must submit: the Swedish PI uses the official application template and email instructions, while the South African PI uses NRF Connect. The applicant deadline is 3 November 2026; South African institutional endorsement follows by 10 November.

Eric Beinhocker and Nick Hanauer present Market Humanism as a proposed framework for an economy centred on human flourishing. They interpret the period since the financial crisis as a gap between economic paradigms, with consequences for democracy, climate action and responses to artificial intelligence. Drawing on economics, philosophy, behavioural and social sciences, complex systems, evolutionary theory and computer science, they outline the proposed framework and its implications for policy and business. The discussion considers how it could alter politics and public narratives, and the p