Activities

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? Albert Einstein

Public Outreach

Sharing academic knowledge with various communities is at the heart of our projects. We offer a series of outreach activities for our community stakeholders:

Policy recommendations on selected issues
YouTube channel with short expert interviews on issues of democracy, migration, memory politics, EU topics or Canada-Europe relation
Blog
Free and open to public events
Inclusive media outreach for junior and senior scholars
Open access experts database

Scholarly Expertise

We are a public outreach platform – that makes scholarly knowledge available and meaningful to the public in times when the need for evidence based knowledge and public debate is crucial. We pursue this objective by:

Promoting scholarly expertise through a comprehensive experts database
Featuring scholars profile in video interviews and media alerts
Including senior scholar in Blog contributions
Showcasing selected publications of scholars

Youth Engagement

One of our main goals is to connect young minds, create a venue for brainstorming and promote their work. We do this by:

Involving young scholars in events (CEDoD pre seminars)
Offering essay competitions
Inviting young writers to contribute to the Blog
Video series with young scholars
Specific Training of young scholars how to use social media safely in an academic environment
Mentorship offers for developing policy recommendation
Offering internships and volunteer positions
Team oriented work with students when developing educational materials

Learning Tools

A constitutive part of our projects is dedicated to the development of knowledge tools and training activities. These involve:

Developing project publications for young scholars with training purposes
Training High School teachers on specific topics
Producing educational videos and materials

Transatlantic Networks

Our goal is to foster the Canada Europe Transatlantic Dialogue creating long-term transnational networks of scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds; producing innovative and impactful scholarly research within our networks; and support the process of informing public policy making. With this goal in mind, EUCAnet:

Brings together research groups on issues of
- Europe-Canada relations
Features network and project collaborations in our database
- Network on Migration
- Network on Democracy
- Network of ECSA-C members
Develops a network on Memory Politics with experts in Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Poland