The Global Resilience Partnership is excited to announce the third round of the awards! The “Knowledge into Use” awards provide a unique opportunity to ignite resilience, celebrate creativity, and embrace innovation in engaging with the latest resilience evidence.
The “Knowledge into Use” awards identify innovative and creative ways of showcasing resilience evidence. This year’s contest focuses on the themes – Food, Finance and/or Communities. They call upon individuals and organisations to tap into their artistic potential, merge it with sound evidence, and showcase it through art.
They are looking for comics and murals to visualise evidence through games, climate resilient cookbooks, participatory approaches like gamification and citizen science, and performing arts like theatre, improv, music and folk performances that capture oral histories or lived experiences.
Prizes will be awarded to the winners across three categories: performing arts, visualising evidence, and participatory approaches connecting arts and science. Entries ideally connect people and nature, and clearly build on and cite peer-reviewed articles, grey literature, and/or peoples’ experiences.
Benefits
Receive a grant of 100,000 Swedish Krona to develop their creative resilience project;
Exhibit their creative art work during Gobeshona 2025 or New York Climate week 2024;
Become a part of a growing community of practice on resilience evidence, called the Resilience Evidence Coalition
Get invited to participate in GRP and partner events like CBA, Gobeshona, etc;
Get support from the GRP communications team to write stories on the progress made in the project and publish in the Resilience Platform and GRP website’;
Coordinate with the GRP communications team to create social media products for outreach of their organisation and products.
Timeline
The contest will begin in June and the final outputs should be ready by November 2024
Expected Deliverables
1 art installation or a diverse range of creative outputs, such as well-produced performance videos, visual graphics, cartoons, recipes, and citizen science initiatives like murals, showcasing the project’s vision and concept
Process documentation (script + motivation of performance art, description of participatory approaches, etc.)
At least 2 social media posts (high resolution photos, short videos, etc.)
At least 2 Resilience Resources (either story or solution) on the Resilience Platform
Eligibility Criteria
The entries should be from registered organisations only.
If individual artists, science communicators or knowledge brokers want to apply, they can partner with registered organisations. The grant contract can only be awarded to a registered organisation.
Organisations and candidates based in the Global South and youth-led organisations are strongly encouraged to apply. Proposals from GRP partners, coalition members and/or former grantees are encouraged as well.
Note: The contest is open to all the countries except Crimea region of Iran, North Korea, Russia, Belarus, Cuba, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Syria. International remittances to these countries are not possible due to logistical issues.
