Goals, issues, application in progress
The KIS Application
Key ideas:
- These terms and concepts are used in the program guidelines:
- "Effective knowledge exchange and mobilization"
- "Knowledge mobilization initiative"
- Objectives of the KIS program: (from the KIS program overview)
- "develop or expand strategies to systematically move social sciences and humanities knowledge from areas in which a university has recognized research strength into active service beyond academic circles"
- "build or expand relationships and facilitate knowledge exchange between specific non-academic stakeholders and researchers whose expertise is relevant to those stakeholders’ interests and concerns"
- "create or expand opportunities for students in the social sciences and humanities to develop knowledge mobilization skills through hands-on experience"
- Our activities must: (from the KIS program overview):
- "draw on accumulated social sciences and humanities expertise in areas where an institution has demonstrated research strengths"
- "create or expand relationships and knowledge exchange between social sciences and humanities researchers and non-academic stakeholders"
- "create or expand relationships and knowledge exchange between social sciences and humanities researchers and non-academic stakeholders"