AUDACE
The AUDACE(New Window) funding program, created by the Fonds de recherche du Québec, aims to "support audacious researchers that work outside of traditional methods and approaches". The AUDACE program encourages researchers to go "beyond the limits of achievement set by their fields of research and the scientific community", thus promoting innovative research that holds a "strong potential for producing beneficial results, whatever the nature (scientific, social, economic, technologic, cultural, aesthetic...)"
The research project « Secure Site for Research in Thanatology: A Scientific Approach to Death », and its team of researchers from UQTR, UQAM and McGill, were awarded funding by the first ever instalment of the AUDACE program (2017). By catalyzing the creation of the first Canadian research site for human decomposition, the award not only helped fulfill the experimental research criteria of Dr. Shari Forbe's Canada 150 Research Chair, but it also provided the opportunity to analyse artistic, historical, philosophical and ethical questions surrounding social acceptability, religion, death, and cadaver use in research.
The AUDACE program promotes the province of Quebec as an international leader on the scientific reflection of death, its social perceptions and semiotics.
AUDACE Related Activities
15 Nov. 2018 - International Day of Philosophy
Round table discussion titled «Don d’organes et don de son corps à la science: mon corps mort est-il encore mon corps?»
The event was organised by :
La mort? Parlez-moi d'autre chose! (17 Juin, 2020)
Centre international de criminologie comparée (CICC)
Conversation with Syliane Charles and Paule Giron
22 projets audacieux (13 Septembre, 2018)
Fonds de recherche du Québec
Presented by Frank Crispino