Trans-Atlantic Platform Announces 10 Teams to be Awarded Grants in the Social Innovation Call
December 17, 2019 – The Trans-Atlantic Platform (T-AP) for the Social Sciences and Humanities, a collaboration between funders from several different countries, is pleased to announce the awardees of the T-AP Social Innovation Call. A total of approximately €4,966,000 million was awarded to ten international teams to investigate collaborative research projects which will add to understandings of social innovation and deliver social innovations through new research.
The T-AP Social Innovation Call is supported by selected international funders from across the larger T-AP funding network. The participating countries and funding organizations in this call include: Brazil (FAPESP); Canada (SSHRC, FRQSC); Finland (AKA); France (ANR); Germany (BMBF/DLR); Poland (NCBR); The Netherlands (NWO); United Kingdom (AHRC, ESRC). Each of the funded teams include principal investigators and partners from a minimum of three countries, with participation on both sides of the Atlantic. These teams will be pursuing interdisciplinary research on a diverse range of topics related to social innovation, including the arts, environment, sustainable development, history, healthcare, education, youth, housing, social activism and Indigenous research.
The T-AP is a collaboration between key humanities and social science funders and facilitators from South America, North America and Europe (full list of T-AP partners). The Platform aims to enhance the ability of funders, research organizations and researchers to engage in transnational dialogue and collaboration. The T-AP Social Innovation call builds upon past collaborative activities under the T-AP Digging into Data Challenge.
T-AP Social Innovation Call List of Awardees
- Colonization of the sacred places of the Xavante territory of Marãiwatsédé and São Marcos
Brazil (FAPESP): Cláudia Regina Plens, Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Canada (SSHRC): Ivan Roksandic, University of Winnipeg
Poland (NCBR): Katarzyna Górka, Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences
- Collaboration for Social Innovation: Scaling for Impact
The Netherlands (NWO): Florian Noseleit, University of Groningen
Canada (SSHRC): Tina Dacin, Queen’s University
Germany (BMBF/DLR): Christine Volkmann, University of Wuppertal
- Documenting Africans in Trans-Atlantic Slavery
Canada: Paul Lovejoy, York University (SSHRC) and Jean-Pierre Le Glaunec, Université Sherbrooke (FRQSC)
France (ANR): Myriam Cottias, French National Centre for Scientific Research
United Kingdom (AHRC): Sean Kelley, University of Essex
- New Frontiers in Social Innovation Research: Social Innovation Management for BIOPlastics
Canada (SSHRC): Tammara Soma, Simon Fraser University
United Kingdom (ESRC): Benny Tjahjono, Coventry University
Poland (NCBR): Grażyna Wieteska, University of Lodz; Barbara Ocicka, SGH Warsaw School of Economics
Brazil (FAPESP): Sandra Andrea Cruz, Federal University of São Carlos
- Social Innovation Processes in and around Multinational Companies: The Role of Social Activists and their Transnational Networks
United Kingdom (ESRC): Tony Edwards, Loughborough University
The Netherlands (NWO): Ayse Saka-Helmhout, Radboud University
Canada (SSHRC and FRQSC): Gregor Murray, Université de Montréal
- Social Innovation through Participatory Art and Design with Youth at the Margins: Solutions for Engaging and Empowering Youth with Trans-Atlantic Mirroring
Finland (AKA): Satu Miettinen, University of Lapland
Brazil (FAPESP): Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos, University of São Paulo
Canada (SSHRC and FRQSC): Anne Marchand, Université de Montréal
United Kingdom (ESRC): Paul Wilson, University of Leeds
- Socially Innovative Interventions to Foster and to Advance Young Children’s Inclusion and Agency in Society through Voice and Story
Finland (AKA): Tuija Turunen, University of Lapland
Canada (SSHRC): Anne Burke, Memorial University of Newfoundland
United Kingdom (ESRC): Mhairi Beaton, Leeds Beckett University
- Social Pharmaceutical Innovation for Unmet Medical Needs
Canada (SSHRC): Conor Douglas, York University
Brazil (FAPESP): Fernando Aith, Universidade de São Paulo
France (ANR): Vololona Rabeharisoa, ARMINES
Netherlands (NWO): Ellen Moors, Utrecht University
- User-Valued Innovations for Social Housing Upgrading through Trans-Atlantic Living Labs
Brazil (FAPESP): Doris Catharine Cornelie Knatz Kowaltowski, University of Campinas
Germany (BMBF/DLR): Sigrun Kabisch, UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
The Netherlands (NWO): Clarine van Oel, Delft University of Technology
United Kingdom (ESRC): Patricia Tzortzopoulos Fazenda, University of Huddersfield
- Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation
United Kingdom (AHRC): Paul Goodwin, University of the Arts London
Canada: Ming Tiampo, Carleton University (SSHRC) and Alice Ming Wai Jim, Concordia University (FRQSC)
The Netherlands (NWO): Wayne Modest, Vrije Universiteit and Chiara de Cesari, University of Amsterdam
Germany (BMBF/DLR): Monica Juneja, Heidelberg University
T-AP Social Innovation Review Panel
Professor Kim Sawchuk, Concordia University (Chair)
Professor Susan Halford, University of Bristol (Vice-Chair)
Dr. Frans Coenen, University of Twente
Dr. Benoit Desmarchelier, Université de Lille
Professor Jean-Marc Fontan, Université du Québec à Montréal
Professor John Grin, University of Amsterdam
Professor Jeremy Hall, University of Sussex
Dr. Hanna Liberska, Kazimierz Wielki University
Professor Susan Lord, Queen’s University
Professor Leandro Silva Medrano, University of Sao Paulo
Professor Celina M. Olszak, University of Economics in Katowice
Professor Jussi Pakkasvirta, University of Helsinki
Dr. Dieter Rehfeld, Institute for Work and Technology
Professor Katariina Salmela-Aro, University of Helsinki
Dr. Thomas Winzen, University of Essex