Resources

Guides

These resources provide practical guidance to support respectful collaboration, inclusive community practices, and effective engagement across diverse partners, reinforcing Volt-Age’s commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, and collaborative decarbonization efforts.

Inclusive Leadership Initiative

The Volt-Age Inclusive Leadership Initiative (November 2025 – June 2026) established a shared language, practical tools, and an emerging framework for strengthening scientific collaboration, inclusive leadership, and collective impact across the Volt-Age ecosystem. The initiative concluded with two complementary resources: the Synthesis Report and the Kaleidoscope Framework Guide, designed to support leaders, researchers, and teams in embedding inclusive leadership into everyday practice.

Knowledge users guide

This document defines who qualifies as a Knowledge User (KU) in the Canadian and Volt-Age research context, outlines examples across sectors, and explains how KUs should be identified based on a project’s goals and intended impact. It also distinguishes knowledge users from stakeholders by emphasizing that KUs actively apply research findings to inform decisions, policies, programs, or practices.

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Guidelines for a respectful and inclusive Volt-Age community

This document establishes clear shared guidelines for building a respectful and inclusive community where diverse perspectives support collaboration and innovation. It is intended to ensure that everyone feels safe, valued and able to contribute fully while reflecting Volt-Age’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion as core to its work.

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Dewemaagannag My Relations

Concordia’s Office of Community Engagement has created a guide for researchers, academics, and students who want to learn how to collaborate effectively with Indigenous Peoples, organizations, and communities. As Volt-Age actively engages with Indigenous communities on various projects, we invite all interested scholars to explore this guide, which offers practical steps for turning ideas into action.

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Event outputs

These outputs capture insights from Volt-Age engagement activities and events that informed program development and highlighted the importance of collaboration and long-term partnerships in advancing decarbonization.

Curation Process Synthesis Report

The Curation Process Synthesis Report was released on December 11, 2024. The Curation Process was designed to gather perspectives and feedback from researchers, administrators and students to help guide the creation of the Impact Call for Proposals. The Curation Process included a total of 16 events engaging approximately 200 individuals, including response collection activities, workshops, webinars, and informal meetups.

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Building Relationships with Broad-Based Communities

On October 8, 2024, Christopher Henderson, Chair of the Partnership Committee at Volt-Age, led the webinar Building Relationships with Broad-Based Communities, focusing on Canada’s decarbonization goals. During the event, Henderson emphasized the importance of establishing deep, long-lasting relationships as the foundation for successful decarbonization efforts.

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Templates

The Indigenous Engagement Reciprocity Agreement Template guides Impact Grant researchers in building collaborative, respectful and community-aligned research partnerships.

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Videos

In May 2024, Volt-Age hosted an event entitled Community Partnerships for Decarbonization, where experts and community leaders shared insights on efforts to electrify and reduce emissions in communities across Canada. The videos highlight clean-energy projects, Indigenous-led initiatives, marine and Arctic renewable solutions and cross-sector collaborations driving community decarbonization.