Funding, News and Announcements

The Association of Commonwealth Universities is currently accepting applications for ACU Commonwealth Climate Resilience Challenge Grants, which provide up to GBP 2500 to help meet the costs of organizing projects that promote the aims and priorities of Commonwealth Climate Resilience Network (CCRN).

Academic and professional staff at ACU member universities who are involved in enhancing the climate resilience of universities themselves, and/or enhancing universities’ contribution to the resilience of communities, business and government are eligible to apply.

The grants can be used for a diverse range of projects, workshops, and events in areas such as:

• Improving learning, teaching, and training for climate change adaptation – e.g. virtual exchange or collaboration, teaching or professional practice collaboration and sharing and co-development of learning materials.
• Increasing the research capacity of CCRN members in climate change adaptation – e.g. virtual fellowships or collaboration, comparative analyses, research management and uptake capacity building, understanding and documenting indigenous knowledge and resilience practices.
• Improving institutional resilience policies and practise adopted by Commonwealth universities - e.g. developing tools, training and approaches to support contingency and continuity of operations planning at higher education institutions.

More information about the funding program, including a copy of the application form, can be found at the following link.

Deadlines

Internal: November 5, 2020 at 4:30pm. Contact ird@dal.ca

Funder: November 13, 2020 at 11:59pm GMT (8:59pm AST). Contact resilience@acu.ac.uk