The Center for 21st Century Studies is pleased to announce its annual Call for Collaboratories for the 2025-2026 academic year. Applications will be accepted through Friday, March 28.
The Center for 21st Century Studies (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 is currently accepting applications for its 2025-2026 cohort of collaboratories and working groups.
Collaboratories are collaborative projects developed with a specific project or public outcome in mind. These collaboratives are eligible for up to $10,000 in funding, though most projects receive around $5,000. Awarded funds can be used as seed funding to establish proof-of-concept or complete research legwork to find additional funding or sustainable support structures. Or, funds can support short-term research projects that include a specific public programming component or culminate in a public presentation.
Working groups are groups that 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. Working groups receive $500 for supplies, speakers or other costs conducive to working group activity.
Both collaboratory and working group applicants must identify a principal investigator that is current UWM faculty or academic staff.
Applications are due Friday, March 28, 2025, for funding to be used July 1, 2025, to June 1, 2026).
A virtual information session will be held at 9 a.m. on Friday, Feb. 28. Advanced registration is required.
Full information can be found at www.tinyurl.com/c21collabs2526.
Please direct all questions to C21 managing director Katie Waddell at waddelke@uwm.edu.
