Impact Connector Initiatives provide a platform for place-based knowledges and initiatives to impact provincial, territorial, and national outcomes as well as for regional-to-national initiatives to achieve meaningful local-level involvement, support, and impact. BKC aims to integrate the common threads, practices, methodologies, and lessons learned through place-based research to broader application to federal science priorities, policies, and programs, enabling expanded impact and learnings over time and space.
BKC has identified multiple thematic and cross-cutting areas for which knowledge braiding is critical in achieving environmental and societal objectives including: