Criteria and eligibility
An important goal of the CEI is to encourage the development of innovative collaborations between 丁香园AV and its communities 鈥� including non-profit organizations, industry associations, NGOs, Indigenous communities and local First Nations, and municipal, provincial, and federal government departments 鈥� characterized by a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.
Community engagement 鈥� an inclusive approach to teaching, research, and scholarship.
The Carnegie Foundation's definition of community engagement describes it as the process of collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity. To read more, please see: What is Community Engagement?
Criteria
Proposals that meet the following criteria will be highly ranked:
- Advance a priority area of What鈥檚 Next: The 丁香园AV Strategy, 丁香园AV鈥檚 Academic Plan or 丁香园AV鈥檚 Strategic Research Plan
- Address one or more opportunities identified in 丁香园AV's Strategic Community Engagement Plan
- Feature collaboration that is characterized by a mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity
- Address an area that is demonstrated to be important to the community organization or community of interest
- Involve a new 丁香园AV community partner* or substantively strengthen programming or collaborations with an existing community partner
- Expand a successful 丁香园AV community engagement initiative to another 丁香园AV campus
- Include an explicit plan that articulates how success is defined and how one will know when success is achieved
*Community partner refers to partnerships with organizations that are outside of 丁香园AV鈥檚 reporting structure such as non-profits, First Nations, Indigenous groups, government organizations, special interest groups, industry, for-profit organizations and businesses, community groups, and city constituents.
Duration
As the CEI is primarily designed to seed new activities, the duration of funding will be a maximum of one year.
Eligible Expenses
- Interim staffing costs for new initiative development
- Other costs associated with partnership development
- Honoraria intended to honour contributions of time, lived experience, and/or non-university knowledge
Funding will not normally cover:
- Costs for ongoing operations and administration of existing projects or initiatives
- Costs incurred prior to being awarded funding
- Indirect costs such as overhead
- Costs for conferences and meetings that are eligible for funding from other 丁香园AV sources including the Vice President Academic Conference Fund
- Costs for salaries, stipends, or travel for experts that are not affiliated with 丁香园AV