Imagining Canada’s Future Ideas Lab
The Imagining Canada’s Future (ICF) Ideas Lab is an exciting, two-year funding opportunity designed by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to encourage innovative research partnerships and projects. By breaking down methodological barriers and empowering participants to explore novel approaches to research, the ICF Ideas Lab will promote knowledge sharing and provide foundations for future interdisciplinary projects. If you enjoy collaborating with other researchers and are seeking new challenges, the ICF Ideas Lab may be for you.
Competitions
2023
Global Health and Wellness for the 21st Century
SSHRC in partnership with the Public Health Agency of Canada and Genome Canada: Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was experiencing rapid changes in the health and wellness sector. Growing demands from an aging population, important technological drivers and climate change are among key forces that were, and still are, requiring transformation. The advent of COVID-19 highlighted the pressures on the global health and wellness environments. Several factors will need to be considered when exploring health and wellness systems.
- Application deadline:
- Stage 1—Hybrid workshop: May 25, 2023 (8 p.m. eastern)
- Stage 2—Funding opportunity: November 22, 2023 (8 p.m. eastern)
- Value and duration: Up to $250,000 over two years
2021
Canada and the Circular Economy
The circular economy is a means of addressing key environmental and economic concerns and offers a sustainable alternative to the current linear model of production-consumption-waste. Circularity focuses on extracting as much value as we can from our resources—through recycling, reusing or refurbishing products and materials—while eliminating waste and greenhouse gas emissions at the design stage. For many of its proponents, the circular economy goes beyond the management of resources to addressing deeper issues relating to consumption, human behaviour and our relationship with the natural world.
- Application deadline: December 17, 2021 (8 p.m. eastern)
- Value and duration: $30,000 for one year
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Contact information
For more information, contact:
- Email: KSG-SSC@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
Imagining Canada’s Future: 16 global challenges
SSHRC offers KSGs to address global challenges identified through the Imagining Canada’s Future initiative.