Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council has joined an EU-funded partnership between 15 funding agencies from Europe and the Americas to strengthen international collaboration.
The Trans-Atlantic Platform in Social Sciences and Humanities Research (T-AP), a three-year project funded by the European Union’s Framework 7 research funding programme, will identify best practice and priorities for collaboration, including joint research agendas. Initially, it will focus on Big Data and digital scholarship, and develop recommendations for topics to be included in the research programme for Horizon 2020, the EU’s next research funding framework.
“The increasingly complex challenges facing society in the 21st century transcend international boundaries. From prosperity and sustainability to poverty and inequality in an aging society, researchers in the social sciences and humanities on both sides of the Atlantic are working to understand and address these global challenges,” said Chad Gaffield, president of SSHRC, and co-chairman of the T-AP steering committee. “This new platform will provide us with a great opportunity to stimulate and advance international collaboration, remove barriers to research, and strengthen research outcomes.”
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