Strategic Science Fund Awards the Canadian Mountain Network 5 Years of Funding to Support Indigenous Knowledge and Reconciliation through Research
The Canadian Mountain Network (CMN) is proud to announce it has been awarded another 5 years of funding by the Government of Canada’s Strategic Science Fund (SSF) to transition to Braiding Knowledges Canada (BKC) at the end of its current federal grant in March 2024. Led by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, the SSF is designed to support research, training, and knowledge mobilization initiatives that not-for-profit organizations lead.
This significant grant will enable CMN’s transition to Braiding Knowledges Canada (BKC) as we approach the conclusion of our current federal grant in March 2024. Under the banner of BKC, we will build upon the groundbreaking achievements of CMN, which focuses on braiding Indigenous and Western knowledge developed through research in Canadian mountain regions. BKC's mandate, however, reaches far beyond these mountain landscapes. It will expand its influence across Canada, allowing us to carry forward the remarkable legacy of CMN while also widening our reach and relevance.
BKC’s mission is to significantly enhance the influence of self-determined, place-based, and co-produced knowledge within Canada’s science culture such that, over time and on a path towards reconciliation, Indigenous and local knowledge approaches contribute more to public policy and decision-making and become more fully and equitably reciprocal with federal science priorities.
CMN’s re-brand to BKC will help advance Reconciliation through Research and contribute to several of Canada’s cross-cutting policy priorities. These include advancing reconciliation through concrete action on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action and supporting implementation of the United Nations (UN) Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and well as the UN Sustainable Development Goals .
– Dr Monique Dubé, CMN Executive Director
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