Seizing the Moment

The Seizing the Moment project (2020-2021) was co-led by the Community Engagement and Research Centre (CERC) at the University of Regina and Community Campus Engage Canada (CCECanada).

The Seizing the Moment project aimed to facilitate meaningful
cross-sectoral conversations around the following themes:

How has the COVID pandemic impacted Canadian communities and academic partners, and what types of adaptive strategies have communities implemented in response to these challenges?

What options exist for community-campus partnerships to address this and other large-scale disruptions?

This project was generously supported by a
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection Grant.

The Seizing the Moment project brought together community-based organizations, community engagement offices, engaged faculty and students and others from regions, sectors and disciplines across Canada. These gatherings inspired the development of a Knowledge Exchange Network that was further expanded during our current project titled, “Community-Campus Responses to Crisis: Community engagement and networked learning for climate change resilience”, which is funded by a
SSHRC Partnership Development Grant.

The Seizing the Moment summary report is available here:

Project activities included:

A two-day pan-Canadian online workshop (May 25-26, 2021) convening participants from across Canada for a series of presentations as well as regional and national discussion sessions;

A Quebec-based, French-language workshop (November 18, 2021) that focused on community-campus partnerships in the provincial context;

A post-workshop webinar/discussion series (June-November 2021) aimed at continuing workshop conversations and emerging collaborations; and

A Seizing the Moment web page, which provided a place to share project outputs, stories, event recordings, and information resources.

Seizing the Moment video playlists: