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5. Funding for networks activities 2021
Decisions have been made over the funding for network events for 2021, along with the creation of some new networks
EASA has received 20 network funding applications for 2021 activities from the 42 networks active in 2020. We would like to thank networks for the innovative range of activities that have been proposed, responding to the constraints created by the pandemic: 12 networks requested funding for online events, and 8 networks requested funding for face-to-face events to take place later this year. The executive committee has agreed to offer full grants to the online events. Given the current situation, we have chosen to support applications for funding web and social media activities, and encouraging the involvement of non-academic participants who are precarious and on low salaries.
Because of the continuing uncertainty created by Covid19, we agreed last year to retain some of the budgeted funds for a second round of applications this year, including face-to-face events if that is then possible. For this reason we have decided not to award funds to networks applying to host face-to-face events for now. We will reconsider the 8 existing face-to-face applications in June (no need to reapply), and will also advertise this opportunity to other networks to apply to run an face-to-face event at that point too. Preference at that point will be given to those networks who have not been in receipt of funding.
We will also provide a small sum for start-up meetings for four new networks approved this year. The four new networks are: EASA Contemporary Spiritual Practices Network, EASA network for multimodal ethnography, EASA Anthropology of Crime and Criminalisation and EASA Anthropology of (neo) Fascism.
