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Collaboratory & Working Group Applications Due

  • Application deadline: Friday, April 3, 11:59 PM
  • Access complete application instructions here.
  • Hybrid information session: Tuesday, March 3, 9:00-10:00 AM

About

C21 believes that the complex challenges we face in the 21st century are best met through collaborations across areas of expertise and experience, and that the humanities are a vital part of addressing these challenges. Collaborative project funding provides an opportunity to bring together teams of scholars across disciplines, across university and community partnerships, and across emerging and established scholars (students / staff / faculty) to generate new ideas and knowledge. 

C21 offers funding for two distinct categories of collaborative projects: working groups and collaboratories. Working groups provide opportunities for collaborative study, research, and discussion of a common subject of interest. Collaboratories provide opportunities to bring new, humanities-informed ideas and knowledge to many different audiences both on and off campus. Collaboratories are also foundational to the Center’s annual programming.  

While the criteria for working groups will remain largely unchanged from previous years, collaboratory proposals must include a contribution to C21’s Day of Action, slated for the Spring 2027 semester. The Day of Action will celebrate the culmination of SLOW, C21’s 2024-27 thematic cycle, and will align with C21’s 2026-27 theme, Slow Action. Slow Action will explore how the practices, methodologies, histories, and theories of collective organizing across communities and institutions might provide insight for building values-rooted systems and deliberate actionable pathways that endure over time to support shared goals. 

C21 offers two distinct funding tiers for collaborative research projects:

Collaboratories are collaborative projects devised with a specific project or public outcome in mind. Priority will be given to projects with budgets of up to $5,000.  A portion of awarded funds must be used to support programming for the Day of Action and/or related contributions.  

Working Groups gather for ongoing discussions, networking, and idea generation. They may be newly formed or pre-existing groups with an ongoing dialogic process or collaborative project. They do not necessarily have to have a fully formed project plan with a final deliverable in mind. Working groups are awarded $500.

DETAILS AND HOW TO APPLY

Questions?

C21 strongly encourages questions and inquiries in advance of proposals. Please review application details in full and contact C21 Managing Director Katie Waddell with questions at waddelke@uwm.edu.

April 3 All day