Preparing for Tomorrow – Societies and Strategies in Times of Transition

The Trans-Atlantic Platform (TAP) is pleased to announce its fifth international funding call, Preparing for Tomorrow: Societies and Strategies in Times of Transition.

In a time of profound global uncertainty—shaped by climate change, pandemics, geopolitical tensions, economic disruption, technological transformation, and epistemic challenges—the call will support innovative, transnational social sciences and humanities (SSH) research that strengthens society’s capacity to anticipate, understand, and respond to future challenges and opportunities.

Aim of the call

The Preparing for Tomorrow call will fund collaborative research that advances conceptual, empirical, and normative understanding of how societies envision, prepare for, and respond to uncertain futures. It seeks to generate knowledge that supports resilient, inclusive, and forward-looking strategies, and that informs policy and practice at local, national, and international levels.

Scope and focus

Proposals are invited from transnational research teams to address one or more of the following overarching themes:

• Uncertainty: sources, costs, communication, and improvement
• The many faces of the future and crisis: historical, cultural, and regional perspectives
• Scope and coordination of response strategies
• Normative inquiry into prevention and preparation for future crises

Research may draw on a wide range of disciplinary, interdisciplinary, theoretical, methodological, and applied approaches within SSH, including qualitative, quantitative, mixed-methods, historical, and future-oriented methodologies.

The detailed scope of the call can be found in the call documents below.

Key features

The call will:

• Support international and interdisciplinary collaboration across countries on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.
• Encourage engagement with policymakers, communities, and other stakeholders.
• Promote diversity within research teams, including the involvement and development of early career researchers.
• Address both risks and opportunities arising from societal, political, technological, and environmental change.

Call Timeline

17 April 2026	Call launches
8 June 2026	3 p.m. CEST, T-AP-Webinar  I  Presentation(Download)
10 June 2026	11 a.m. -12:30 p.m. EDT SSHRC-Webinar French(externer Link)   2 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. EDT SSHRC-Webinar English(externer Link)
8 July 2026	Deadline to submit the required letter of intent to apply (LOI)
28 October 2026	Deadline to submit the application
March-April 2027	Evaluation by panel of experts
April-May 2027	Notice of funding decisions
July-September 2027	Start date of awards

Funding Call (Link)