Konrad Adenauer Foundation Canada Office seeks to enhance cooperation and dialogue between Germany, Canada and Europe through innovation, civil science, as well as in the areas of security, technology, climate change and migration. As #KAS4Security being a priority for 2025, Konrad Adenauer Foundation Canada Office will fund security, technology and democracy related scientific research and publications to its strategic objectives as outlined in its website.
The winners for 2025 are:
For the first grant: University of Ottawa, in partnership with the Saarland University
Wolfgang Alschner, Patrick Leblond and Philipp Reinhold
Title: Securing Trade: Integrating Economic Security into Canada–EU Economic Agreements in an Era of Geoeconomic Tension
The project involves a collaboration between Canadian and German researchers to contribute to this agenda by exploring how Canada and Europe can integrate economic security considerations their economic relationship and the agreements that govern that relationship, notably the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA), the Digital Partnership and the Strategic Partnership Agreement.
For the third grant: University of Ottawa, in partnership with the Swedish Defence University
Jennifer Irish, Alexander Dalziel and Henrik Häggström
Title: Arctic Disinformation and Communities on the Northern Flank – A Transatlantic Perspective
The project will advance transatlantic cooperation between Canada and Europe to enhance information integrity and resiliency in the Arctic, including with respect to information warfare (Foreign Information and Manipulation and Interference or FIMI). Both the Lab and the SEDU are exploring initiatives to strengthen civilian readiness and resilience in their northernmost territories, which will contribute to defence and security policy formulation at the national, sub-national and international levels, including for the European Union and NATO and among priority partners such as Germany.
We would like to congratulate all winners!
We are also still extending the applications for the second grant: Artificial intelligence, cyber-security, quantum technologies and its impact on the resilience of free and liberal democracies- the erosion of the post war multilateral system. Will digital autocracies challenge the world's free democracies? and the grant for Environmental Risk and Climate Insecurity.
Before an application is submitted, general questions about the #KAS4Security grant should be addressed to info.canada@kas.de .
Please read the PDF attached in below for all the details.
