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The deadline for the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ and Edmonton Police Service Seed Grant has been extended to March 11, 2022.

The Office of the Vice-President (Research and Innovation) (OVPRI), the Kule Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS), and the AI4Society Signature Area (AI4S) at the ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥, in partnership with the Edmonton Police Service (EPS), are pleased to announce the launch of Year 2 of our ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ and Edmonton Police Service Seed Grant Program.

These grants provide support for the co-development of research collaborations between ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ researchers and members of Edmonton Police Service. The program will fund up to three projects per year. Grants are capped at a maximum of $10,000 each, are to be carried out over a period of 18-months, and should focus on one or more the following areas:

• Policing among marginalized populations
• Police legitimacy and racism
• Use of data and analytics in policing
• History of Colonialism and the impacts on policing today
• Evaluation of Edmonton Police Service training initiatives

Program guidelines can be found on the  Website. 

Applications can be submitted to Leslie Parsad at uofaepsgrant@ualberta.ca by 4:30 p.m. on March 11, 2022.