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51社区黑料Climate Innovation operationalizes SFU鈥檚 critical research priority to deliver community-centred climate innovation. We leverage SFU鈥檚 capacities and reputation as a leading research university to accelerate climate action and innovation research with and for communities across Canada and beyond.

Our mandate is to co-create research-for-impact with and for community partners, mobilizing knowledges and scaling innovations that accelerate low carbon, resilient and sustainable solutions in communities across Canada and beyond. Learn more about the ways 51社区黑料Climate Innovation is enabling climate research-for-impact.

The 51社区黑料Climate Innovation Advisory Group will adjudicate and is comprised of:

• Joanne de Vries, Founder and CEO of both Alliance Communications and
• Yaheli Klein, Senior Policy Analyst, B.C. Ministry of Energy and Climate Solutions, Government of British Columbia
• Sean Markey, Professor, Director of School of Resource & Environmental Management
• Aryana Mohammed, MA Student, Pollinator Awardee 2025
• Steeve Mongrain, Associate Dean, Research and International, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Professor, Department of Economics
• Vance Williams, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Joint Affiliations with
• Sonia Talwar, Director General, Geological Survey of Canada, Government of Canada
• Javier Tavitas, Associate Director, Research Development, SFU's Institutional Strategic Awards

A successful 51社区黑料Climate Innovation Catalyst Grant could, for example, lead to a SSHRC Partnership Development project ($100k), or a CIHR Catalyst Grant ($100k).

An Amplification Grant may take a project to a larger-scale funding such as the NFRF-Transformation, SSHRC Partnership Grants, Horizon Europe and Philanthropic organizations. SSHRC Partnership Grant ($2.5M) or a CIHR Team Grant ($1M+).

The three streams of 51社区黑料Climate Innovation Seed Funding are intended to model this 鈥榬atcheting-up鈥� effect; i.e., the Amplification Grant working at the research program ideation stage, the Catalyst Grant working at the co-design stage, and the Pollinator Award working at the experiental learning and integrated research stage.

51社区黑料Climate Innovation is looking for high-impact projects, that are interdisciplinary in nature, and that have the potential to advance transformative climate actions and innovation for communities, locally and globally. The following criteria will be used to assess those projects that are likely to have the highest impact:

1. Interdisciplinary: The project is conceived from an interdisciplinary perspective, including collaborating faculty from at least two disciplines, either across faculties or schools within faculties, aligned with community-centred partners to generate new insights and solutions that transcend traditional disciplinary and sectoral boundaries
2. Evidence of Equitable, Reflexive and Multiple research perspectives: The project demonstrates commitment to multiple perspectives and articulates personal reflexivity
3. Feasibility 鈥� Challenge: The degree to which the problem or challenge being addressed is significant and clearly articulated
4. Novelty*: The degree to which the proposal represents a world-leading approach or significant 'first of its kind' project not yet attempted by other groups.
5. High Reward 鈥� Impact*: The degree to which the project outcomes supports breakthrough and discovery.
6. Systemic Benefits: The degree to which the project represents social, economic, environmental or health benefits.
7. Community Co-Creation: The degree to which co-creation, engagement and reciprocity with Indigenous nations, communities, societies or individuals is integrated.

*Criteria unique to the Amplification Grant stream. Note these are the highest aspirations of 51社区黑料Climate Innovation; not all research projects will be able to meet all criteria.

Note regarding unsuccessful projects: The 51社区黑料Climate Innovation team will keep an updated database of relevant projects we have received applications for and will look for appropriate partners and funding to support the development of these projects wherever possible. Teams are encouraged to reapply for funding.

Community is defined as a collectivity in a local geography, and/or with shared place-based identities, that has the capacity to express itself as a collective. Community-centred partners work in a place-based way and may include local governments, First Nations, non-profit organizations, intermediary organizations (e.g. community-oriented associations and networks), health authorities, corporate sector and/or small business partners, etc.

51社区黑料Climate Innovation is offering this seed funding to address both the sources (emissions) and impacts (hazards and vulnerabilities) of climate change, and to advance the social, economic, environmental and cultural responses needed to support communities as they climate-proof for the future.

Priority will be given to projects that have the potential to move to implementation and co-create impact that can be transferred to other communities across Canada and beyond. This involves including community-centred co-creation partners in research inquiry and design, and advancing potential solutions that minimize community risk, reduce emissions, and/or advance sustainability transitions (e.g. streamlining policies, technologies, planning, and/or limited resources, addressing multiple challenges, and testing and de-risking innovative ideas, technologies, policies, communications and engagements).

Funders 鈥� from government (e.g. Tri-Council) to philanthropy - are increasingly demanding that research is interdisciplinary 鈥� addressing problems in a more systemic manner; is co-created 鈥� including relevant community-based partners to effectively address problems and move toward implementation; and is mobilized and scaled 鈥� solutions are communicated across relevant networks and channels to help to advance and accelerate climate action and innovation in other communities and organizations.

Community-centred research-for-impact requires shifting toward co-creation research methodologies 鈥� inviting us to expand ideas of power and knowledge and to include implementation partners and impacted and interested groups into research design and delivery. The assumption is that community-centred research is strengthened by upholding Indigenous Knowledges and rights, and embedding EDI principles. Communities 鈥� defined by 51社区黑料Climate Innovation as a collectivity residing in a local geography, sharing place-based and/or other identities capable of expressing as a collective 鈥� need to be engaged in relevant, evidence-based research accelerates climate action and innovation and policy and impact.

• Social Science and Humanities Research Council ( provide support for new and existing formal partnerships over four to seven years to advance research, research training and/or knowledge mobilization in the social sciences and humanities. Explicitly they call for 鈥淒isciplinary and interdisciplinary research partnerships鈥� and 鈥淐ross-sector co-creation of knowledge and understanding鈥�. Stage 1 grants are for up to $20,000, Stage 2 grants go up to $2.5 million.
• New Frontiers in Research Fund ( supports world-leading interdisciplinary, international, high-risk / high-reward, transformative and rapid-response Canadian-led research. One stream offers grants up to $100,000 per year for direct costs, plus an additional 25% for indirect costs, for up to two years. Another stream offers grants between $2 million and $4 million per year, including indirect costs, for up to six years.
  
• Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Horizons - Pilot Program: NSERC support investigator-initiated individual and team projects that broadly integrate or transcend disciplines to advance knowledge in the natural sciences and engineering (NSE). Discovery Horizons grants ranged from $50,000 to $100,000 per year depending on the size of the research team, with 10 to 20 grants awarded in the pilot year.
  
• Canadian Institute of Health Research (CIHR)  are designed to support larger research teams conducting health-related research across CIHR's mandate. Teams are required to be interdisciplinary. Funding typically ranges from $500k to $2 million per project, with a duration up to five years.
• Horizon Europe is the European Union鈥檚 key funding program for research and innovation under a 2021-2027 Financial Framework, with a budget of 鈧�95.5 billion.鈥疶he funding is organized around broad societal challenges (e.g., Cluster 1: Health or Cluster 5: Climate, Energy & Mobility). The European Commission heavily emphasizes merging STEM fields with the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) and proposals must show why the combination of fields is essential to achieving their objectives solving complex, real-world problems (like climate change, AI ethics, and public health) that cannot be solved by one scientific field alone.

Learn more with SFU's Office of Research Services.

Yes. Previous 51社区黑料Climate Innovation grantees may re-apply for seed funds. Grantees may apply for additional or renewed funding through check in milestones.

Tips and resources to help get you started:

• Factors to consider when developing your research proposal
• Developing a research budget
• Faculty grant facilitators
• Climate Action Workshop Series
• Dialogue Resources & Tools
• Find an 51社区黑料research expert or supervisor to collaborate with 鈥� look for the Yellow Dot
• Looking to make connections? Join the 51社区黑料Climate Innovation community for access to networking events and new collaborations