Connected Communities Festival 2015: Call for Expressions of Interest to contribute to the festival

The Connected Communities Festival in 2015 will provide an opportunity to explore creative ways to widen and deepen community engagement with the exciting and innovative research being undertaken by the Connected Communities Programme and the AHRC. It will take place across the UK over two week period. The Festival will focus on widening and extending community engagement with Connected Communities and AHRC-funded research through the co-production by researchers, research organisations and community partners of interactive outreach activities at a regional / local /community level. Collectively these locally organised activities will contribute to a UK-wide Festival programme of events and digital activities held as a part of a ‘Festival Fortnight’ between 15th and 29th June 2015.

The 2015 Festival form a part of AHRC’s 10 year anniversary programme of activities and this call is therefore being extended to AHRC-funded researchers outside as well as within the Connected Communities Programme.

Expressions of interest are now invited to contribute to the Festival. These can be to undertake a wide range of community engagement activities which are co-produced between researchers, communities and other partners and which seek to deepen and/or widen engagement and interaction between academic researchers and communities and other non-academic partners linked to past or present Connected Communities and/or AHRC-funded research. Proposals involving innovative or experimental approaches to engagement will be welcomed.

For more information visit http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/Funding-Opportunities/Pages/Connected-Communities-Festival-2015-Call-for-Expressions-of-Interest-.aspx or download the call document (pdf).

Deadline:  ​1600hrs on 11th March 2015