Community Climate Adaptation Fund
The Ocean Frontier Institute’s (OFI) Community Climate Adaptation Fund is designed to support innovative researcher-community engagement at the intersection of ocean, community, and climate adaptation.
This new funding initiative will support the co-creation of research, programs, and climate adaptation solutions with communities, and help ensure that research, commercial ventures, and social innovations are grounded in local needs, traditional knowledge, and lived experiences.
The fund is guided by four key objectives:
The inclusion of community knowledge systems and lived experiences – obtained through engagement with a diversity of coastal communities, including rural communities, Northern Canadian communities, and Indigenous communities – will help ensure the development of projects that meaningfully advance climate adaptation goals.
Create opportunities for graduate students to serve in a leadership role in the research and project development, while community co-leads will ensure projects align with local realities.
Projects will address the needs of communities that are most vulnerable to climate change, empowering collaborative solutions that are scalable and sustainable.
Projects should be positioned to advance future research, social enterprises, commercial ventures or policy initiatives.
By providing initial funding support, OFI’s Community Climate Adaptation Fund is intended to help participants explore innovative climate adaptation ideas and create pathways for the work to continue beyond the initial funding.
OFI’s Community Climate Adaptation Fund is supported in part by Suncor Energy Foundation.
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We acknowledge that the lands on which Memorial University’s campuses are situated are in the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups, and we acknowledge with respect the diverse histories and cultures of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of this province.
