This Info Day will inform (potential) applicants about the 2026 topics included in the Cluster 2 'Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society' work programme 2026-2027.

Cluster 2 aims to meet EU goals and priorities on enhancing democratic governance and citizens’ participation, on the safeguarding and promotion of cultural heritage and Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs), and on to responding to and shaping multifaceted social, economic, technological and cultural transformations.

The program mobilizes multidisciplinary expertise of European social sciences and humanities (SSH) for understanding fundamental contemporary transformations of society, economy, politics and culture. It aims to provide evidence-based policy options for a socially just and inclusive European green and digital transitions and a post-COVID 19 recovery.

Future projects should deliver on the three intervention areas matching the Horizon Europe Strategic Plan (2025-2027):

• · Green transition
• · Digital transition
• · A more resilient, competitive, inclusive and democratic Europe

All topics under this Cluster are expected to mainstream Social Sciences and Humanities and to include a gender dimension in their research.

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International Collaboration on Emerging Technologies 

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Join us on March 24th for a virtual matchmaking event focused on AI, robotics, and space under the 2026-2027 Cluster 4 Work Programme!

The Canadian Horizon Europe Secretariat is hosting a virtual matchmaking event on Cluster 4 – Digital, Industry and Space. On March 24^th, researchers and innovators from Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the UK will come together to explore new funding and partnership opportunities under the 2027 Horizon Europe sensitive calls (i.e., calls that are only accessible to EU Member states and select countries like Canada) relating to artificial intelligence, emerging technologies, and space. Please consult the Cluster 4 Work Programme and the Horizon Europe Horizontal Activities Work Programme to learn more about each call.

CALLS being addressed in the webinar:

HORIZON-CL4-2027-04-DATA-08: Demand-side 3C pilot demonstrators on converged Telco Edge Cloud Infrastructure (IA)

HORIZON-CL4-2027-04-DATA-03: New approaches for decentralized, federated and sustainable AI data processing (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2027-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-11: EU Frontier AI Initiative: Developing frontier AI solutions that are safe and computationally efficient within Apply AI (RIA)

HORIZON-CL4-2027-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-04: Apply AI: Challenge-Driven AI Innovation Booster in Apply AI prioritised sectors (RIA) (Partnership in AI, Data and Robotics)

HORIZON-CL4-2027-04-DIGITAL-EMERGING-05: Apply AI: AI-Driven Robotics for Industry: Enabling System Integration and Adoption (IA) (Partnership in AI, Data and Robotics)

HORIZON-CL4-2027-SPACE-03-12: Digital solutions for autonomy for space transportation systems, design and simulation tools – Digital enablers and building blocks (Space Partnership)

HORIZON-CL4-2027-SPACE-03-33: Digital enablers and building blocks for collaborative Earth Observation and Satellite telecommunications for Space solutions (Space Partnership)

HORIZON-RAISE-2027-01-01: Automated Scientific Discovery (RAISE pilot) (RIA)

HORIZON-RAISE-2027-01-02: Automated Scientific Discovery – Food (RAISE pilot)

CIHR will be hosting the following webinar to support participants with the requirements of the funding opportunity “One Health Antimicrobial Resistance Research Network” and to answer questions on how to apply.

When: March 5, 2026 at 11:00 AM ET | Join
Duration: 90 minutes
Language: English presentation followed by a period of questions and answers in both official languages, English and French.

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Students from all graduate programs are invited to present their research and compete with their program colleagues in a poster presentation in person on the Orillia campus.

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Undergraduate and graduate students from Lakehead's Sustainability Sciences department will present their research and projects. 

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Update: This event has been postponed to March 10. 

Entershine Bookshop and Lakehead University are co-hosting a book launch celebration on Tuesday, February 24, 2026 at 7:00 at Entershine Bookshop! We will be featuring three Lakehead books and three community books! Please join us in celebrating!  The event is sponsored by Lakehead University's Research and Innovation unit as part of Research & Innovation Week.

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Join us as we celebrate Lakehead's 21st Annual Research & Innovation Week with greetings from local dignitaries. This will be followed by our President's Public Lecture Series talk by Dr. Sarah Olutola, Associate Professor and a member of the Royal Society of Canada: "Talking About Racism During Turbulent Times".

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Hosted by President and Vice-Chancellor Dr. Gillian Siddall, the free President's Public Lecture Series features research and perspectives from Lakehead thought leaders and changemakers – sparking conversation on the most pressing challenges of our time. 

Talking About Racism During Turbulent Times

Date: Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Time: 9:30 to 11:00 AM
Location: OA1033, Simcoe Hall, Lakehead Orillia, 500 University Ave. + Livestream

Join Dr. Sarah Olutola for a frank discussion about how the current political climate necessitates a re-examination of how we think about racism and what we can do about it. Dr. Sarah Olutola is a public writer, novelist, and academic. As an Associate Professor and a member of the Royal Society of Canada, her current research concerns Black literature and Black popular media. As a public intellectual, she has written for publications such as The Walrus, CBC, and The Washington Post.

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Maps draw borders. To study borders means to study maps. With the advent of digital spaces and the rise of authoritarianism, borders have become intensified sites of contestation. Activists have often challenged borders, maps, and the power of big data, by appropriating data sets and other technologies. This talk investigates how they are using this reappropriated data, or creating their own community-driven datasets, to create community maps counter to dominant maps, in order to redraw borders, challenging arbitrary lines placed on dominant data maps for the purposes of colonialization and territorial control. This talk looks at three counter-mapping case studies to investigate how community and media activist groups reshape not just borders but also our understanding of what borders mean, exploring how counter-maps have been used to assert collective agency and autonomy for the most marginalized during crises. The three case studies include: the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) in the USA challenging the housing crisis; the Mapeo San Miguel project mapping La Vega Barrio in Caracas, Venezuela challenging the healthcare crisis; and the No Border Network and Calais Migrant Solidarity maps in France challenging the migrant crisis. Sharing maps created by these different global communities who are mapping their communities to contest these three crises, I present a comparative analysis of three different logics by which we can understand borders and how they are being contested through counter-mapping: (1) dominant state and capitalist ‘border logics’, (2) charity-model humanitarian borders and ‘human rights logics’, and (3) grassroots activists and critical migration studies ‘no border logics’. Findings from this cross-sector, cross-scale design reveal that specific counter-mapping practices can shift the terrain of maps from oppressive border logics and legalistic human rights logics toward the more liberatory logics of no borders.

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Dr. Sandra Jeppesen is Professor in Media, Film & Communications at Lakehead University, co-founder of the Media Action Research Group, and the Research Centre for Sustainable Communities, and former Lakehead University Research Chair in Transformative Media and Social Movements. Her recent books include Transformative Media: Intersectional Technopolitics from Indymedia to #BlackLivesMatter (2021); The Capitol Riots: Digital Media, Disinformation, and Democracy Under Attack (2022); Queer Cartography (forthcoming); and The Political Economy of Alternative Media (forthcoming). She has won the IAMCR Urban Communication Award for her research on smart cities; and she currently researches on community approaches to smart cities, smart technologies, data justice, digital EDI, and counter-mapping.

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