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Events

Nov. 5 – LFS Virtual Townhall

Friday, November 5
12 – 1pm

All faculty and staff are invited to join this week’s Townhall, and to hear from our guest speakers.

Agenda

Welcome and land acknowledgements – Rickey Yada
Mitacs funding programs – Marcelo Mora, Mitacs Business Development Specialist
United Way – Impact Speaker and August Meyer, UW Campaign Associate
Workday for students project plan – Christine Klaray, Director, Student Services
Welcome new employees
Roundtable updates – Rickey, Associate Deans, Directors

To submit questions in advance or during the Townhall, please use Slido:

Go to the website www.sli.do;
Enter event code ‘LFS’ to post a question or vote for an existing one.

If you need the Zoom meeting link, please contact Rebecca at lfs.dean@ubc.ca.

Nov. 8 & 17 – Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund Info Sessions

The Indigenous Strategic Initiatives (ISI) Fund supports implementation of the 2020 Indigenous Strategic Plan. Funds are available to support projects that advance UBC’s Indigenous Strategic Plan priority actions across both the Vancouver and Okanagan campuses.

A total of up to $4 million dollars in ISI funding is available in 2022.

Information Sessions:

Stream 1 (Innovative Projects) & Stream 2 (Transformative Projects)
Nov. 8, 2-3pm
Stream 3 (Student-led projects) Info Session
Nov. 17, 11am – 12pm

Learn more and register here.

Deadlines

Nov. 12 – Campus as a Living Lab Fund Competition

UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition (2021-22) is now open. Proposals are invited from UBC Faculty & Staff to co-develop innovative, impactful and collaborative ‘living lab’ projects on campus. The competition closes on November 12, 2021.

This program offers Faculty & Staff a unique opportunity to incubate, test and demonstrate innovative research ideas in a real-world setting, embedded on campus lands or within its communities. The competition will provide funds up to $50,000 per project. Proposals are invited from across academic disciplines and operational Units at UBC.

CLL projects must embody the essence of a ‘living lab’; in that they must be centered on the on-campus demonstration of innovation. This definition covers a broad spectrum, including innovative programs, platforms, technologies, products, research methods, etc. CLL projects must demonstrate measurable impact on one of four priority areas – Climate Action, Resilient Systems, Sustainable Places & Communities, or Health & Wellbeing. The project period is April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2023.

For more information, please visit CLL Fund Competition (ubc.ca) or email us at CLL.Team@ubc.ca.

Nov. 19 – Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program

EduCanada has launched the Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program for the 2022-23 academic year.

The program provides Canadian professors with opportunities to create or expand partnerships with Latin American and Caribbean institutions through short-term teaching and/or research activities at the college, undergraduate and graduate levels.

The maximum grant value per candidate is CAD 7,000. Recipients may seek additional funding from other sources (private or public). The duration of the mobility is three (3) weeks minimum and eight (8) weeks maximum. Successful candidates may extend their stay with funds from other sources.

Eligibility
Candidates must be full-time faculty members at Canadian post-secondary institutions. Grant recipients must teach or conduct research in eligible ELAP countries in the Caribbean, Central, North, and South America.

How to Apply:
To be considered for the Faculty Mobility for Partnership Building Program, UBC must apply on behalf of the candidate by completing and submitting the EduCanada online application form. The Office of the Vice-Provost, International will submit all of UBC’s completed applications by the EduCanada deadline of December 2, 2021.

The internal application deadline to apply is end of day, Friday, November 19^th.

All completed application materials must be received to global.partnerships@ubc.ca by November 19^th as follows:

Completed Application Form (NB: please contact global.partnerships@ubc.ca for partnership facts related to question 3b. as needed)
Completed Budget Form
Curriculum Vitae (CV) of the candidate, 6 pages maximum
Letter of invitation from the host institution
Completed Privacy Notice Statement

The Vice-Provost International Office will complete the following submission materials:

Letter of support from the Canadian institution’s International Office (NB: letter will be completed once all submission documents have been received by the deadline of November 19^th)

We ask all candidates to please also note the reporting requirements – within 30 days of the termination of the project, grant recipients must produce a narrative report of maximum 5 pages.

For questions related to this opportunity, please contact global.partnerships@ubc.ca.

Nov. 24 – CFI Innovation Fund

The CFI has published the 2023 Innovation Fund draft call for proposals online, and will be holding information sessions in December. Please see here for details. Note that this does not change the UBC internal deadline for proposals that are due on November 24^th 2021. The UBC Internal proposal instructions can be found on the IPO website.

The CFI are also inviting feedback from the Canadian research community prior to posting the official call for proposals. The IPO will be submitting feedback on behalf of UBC. If you have any feedback to share, please forward it along to ipo.admin@ubc.ca by November 08^th.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact ipo.admin@ubc.ca.