Team Grants
The Connected Minds Team Grants will mobilize collaborative research to fulfil major goals of the program, and must include investigators from all three pillars (society, neuroscience, technology) and at least two partners.
Seed Grants
The Connected Minds Seed Grants are intended to initiate innovative pilot research projects are catalysts from broader projects that will merit longer-term funding from other sources. Projects must have investigators from at least two pillars and one external partner. Two requests for proposals will be released on an annual basis, and will fund on average three applications per call.
Prototyping Grants
The Connected Minds Prototyping Grants provides funds to support members in the development of a prototype that will lead to the commercialization of a product that is aligned with the Connected Minds mandate with balanced commercial viability and social responsibility. These will allow members and their partners to accelerate technology transfer in the innovation pipeline.
Graduate Scholarships
The Connected Minds Graduate Scholarships provides financial support to high-calibre scholars doing research that is aligned with the Connected Minds program under the supervision of a Connected Minds scholar. This support provides funds in addition to standard University support to attract and train leading scholars of tomorrow.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Connected Minds Postdoctoral Award will provide financial support to high-calibre scholars doing postdoctoral research that is aligned with the Connected Minds program under the supervision of a Connected Minds scholar. Applications will require a transdisciplinary advisory team, and involvement of a non-institutional partner. A portion of these will be earmarked for Indigenous and other equity- deserving groups.
Research Travel Awards
The Connected Minds Travel Awards will support flight and accommodation costs for visiting scholars and trainees from the host and partner institutions, as well as for bringing outside researchers or trainees to York or Queen’s. This will help to directly engage secured and future collaborators in Connected Minds research and ensure an exchange of knowledge.
Knowledge Mobilization
The purpose of the Connected Minds Knowledge Mobilization Fund is to support the translation of research results into action, foster sustainable relationships, and match research strengths with the needs of various stakeholders, including innovators, entrepreneurs, policymakers, community groups, and government sectors. The overall goal is to maximize the real-world impact of the Connected Minds Program, specifically with regards to potential end-users and the general public at large.
Artist-in-Residence Program
The Connected Minds Artist-in-Residence program supports artist-researchers from equity-deserving groups who use non-traditional knowledge to address the social impacts of emerging technologies. It aims to maximize the interdisciplinary impact of artistic methodologies on studying the techno-social collective and raise international awareness of community-engaged research through artistic knowledge mobilization.